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Yeah‼COWAY Run 2018 🏃🏻♀🏃🏻♂makes its 2⃣nd year & will be held on 7⃣ Oct 2018 at MAEPS, Serdang 📍Again, let's run run 🏃🏻♀🏃🏻♂towards a healthy & pure lifestyle with a 'cool' theme & a charity element 👍🏻😃
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Mr. Kyle 👨🏻💼 shared that many among our midst still do not have access to clean & pure water 💦💧 & this issue has been often taken for granted. With proceeds channelled towards the Happy Water Project, Coway is committed to help the less fortunate by providing rainwater 🌧 ☔ 💦💧supply devices especially in rural areas 🙌🏻👍🏻 as a way to promote good health for consumers by providing clean & safer water 💦💧, including to educate the importance of staying hydrated too
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COWAY Run 2018 will include distances of 🔟KM & 5⃣KM for both men 👬 & women 👭 for the following categories,
- Open ~ for ages 16 & above
- International ~ for ages 16 & above
- Veteran ~ for ages 40 & above
Participants with children 👶🏻👧🏻🧒🏻👦🏻🧑🏻 will also enjoy an exciting children's obstacle course where children 👶🏻👧🏻🧒🏻👦🏻🧑🏻 can have their own time of fun while their parents / guardians were running at the race. Additionally, Coway aims to bring a taste of Korea 🇰🇷 to the grounds with a Korean Village setup equipped with food 🥘🍲🥡 trucks, photo 📸 props & a live band 👩🏻🎤👨🏻🎤🎼🎤🎵🎶to entertain the crowd 👬👭👫
"This year's run 🏃🏻♀🏃🏻♂will no doubt be bigger & better than before – bringing friends & families 👭👭👫 together on this special occasion & making a change to live pure & to take a step forward in leading an active lifestyle" said Mr Kyle 👨🏻💼
Famous Malaysian fitness model, Jordon Yeoh 🙋🏻♂ joins again this year to run 🏃🏻♂ alongside participants 👭👬👫 while he cheers & motivates 🙌🏻👏🏻 them as they take every step 👣 towards the finishing line – breaking the stereotype that one does not have to be a professional athlete in order to participate in a race ✌🏻😃
"Coway is certain that this platform will not only create awareness on the adoption of healthy & active lifestyle but to also provide individuals 👭👫👬 ~ especially the less fortunate – with clean & pure water 💦💧 in hopes of minimising the risk of medical problems while bringing joy & improving lives"
Do explore more details, warm-up guides & running tips via 🌐 http://cowayrun.com.my/
Let's register together gather via 🌐 https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/coway-run-2018-beat-the-heat-tickets-46745059732
Updated 9.9.2018 10am
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Updated 29.9.2018 10am
Do remember to collect your race pack
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Just can't wait for 7 Oct 🏃♀
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This March, Abi and Tom of OLS had the opportunity to attend the Northeast Regional Computing Conference (NERCOMP) in Providence, RI. We presented a "sort-of" literature review on using video to reach all types of students. Here's an abridged version of our talk. Encountering specific challenges with teaching online? Apply UDL to your video content! We know that there are… Read more →
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Threading Voices with VoiceThread
Post By: Daniel Nester, Associate Professor of English and participant in the Learning Community on Online Teaching & Learning Getting students to participate in class discussion remains an evergreen faculty concern. In the classroom, instructors might draw from any number of techniques, from working on the board or breaking up in groups to the classic open-ended Socratic question. Online learning presents… Read more →
What is Gamification?
We know that there are benefits to harnessing certain elements of games in learning, and we know that there are more and less ideal ways to implement games in the classroom. We also know that there are two common terms for this implementation: gamifying and gameful learning. So, what's the difference between the two? Deterding, Dixon, Khaled, and Nacke attempted… Read more →
Gamifying/Gameful Learning: Do's and Don'ts
Gamifying learning and its young, hip child gameful learning are interesting ideas, often executed poorly. We know that the point of including game-like elements (or games themselves) in the classroom is a way to increase motivation and utilize implicit learning skills. What are the basic do's and don'ts of incorporating these ideas? Do: Use games the way you would assigned… Read more →
Discussions on the Go: The VoiceThread Mobile App
The VoiceThread mobile app is a great tool to keep up with your classes' work on VoiceThread, but it lacks the ability to make changes to settings and to grade the work in Blackboard. Still — many instructors will tell you that keeping up with discussions is the hardest part, so don't dismiss it out of hand! Plan to use… Read more →
Using Kahoot! to Improve Reading Engagement
Textbooks can be dull and dragging, making it difficult for students to bring themselves to read. But they do include vital information for students that aid in their classroom success. At the college level, reading quizzes take up valuable face to face time and are dreaded by both student and instructor. But sometimes we need to confirm that students have… Read more →
E-Learning Pre-Approval Process for Reviewers
Course instructors planning to teach an online or hybrid course will need to submit an E-Learning Pre-Approval form, and that form must be approved by all reviewers before the course schedule will indicate that the course is online or hybrid. We want students to have a fair shake at building their schedules, so forms should be submitted and approved prior… Read more →
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Spirits North America (NAFTA) Industry Guide 2013-2022
Spirits North America (NAFTA) Industry Guide 2013-2022
Published: February 2019
Publisher: MarketLine
Product ref: 305953
Pages: 86
Format: PDF
Delivery: By product vendor
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a trade agreement between the countries in North America: the US, Canada and Mexico. The spirits industry within the NAFTA countries had a total market value of $100,333.9 million in 2017.The Mexico was the fastest growing country, with a CAGR of 6.3% over the 2013-17 period.
- Within the spirits industry, the US is the leading country among the NAFTA bloc, with market revenues of $81,894.6 million in 2017. This was followed by Canada and Mexico, with a value of $12,048.2 and $6,391.1 million, respectively.
- The US is expected to lead the spirits industry in the NAFTA bloc, with a value of $103,347.7 million in 2022, followed by Canada and Mexico with expected values of $15,221.4 and $8,352.6 million, respectively.
- Save time carrying out entry-level research by identifying the size, growth, major segments, and leading players in the NAFTA spirits market
- Use the Five Forces analysis to determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of the NAFTA spirits market
- Leading company profiles reveal details of key spirits market players' NAFTA operations and financial performance
- Add weight to presentations and pitches by understanding the future growth prospects of the NAFTA spirits market with five year forecasts by both value and volume
- Compares data from the US, Canada and Mexico, alongside individual chapters on each country
Reasons to buy
- What was the size of the NAFTA spirits market by value in 2017?
- What will be the size of the NAFTA spirits market in 2022?
- What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the NAFTA spirits market?
- How has the market performed over the last five years?
- Who are the top competitors in the NAFTA spirits market?
Table of Contents
Introduction 9
What is this report about? 9
Who is the target reader? 9
How to use this report 9
Definitions 9
NAFTA Spirits 10
Industry Outlook 10
Spirits in Canada 13
Market Overview 13
Market Data 14
Market Segmentation 16
Market outlook 20
Five forces analysis 22
Macroeconomic indicators 29
Spirits in Mexico 31
Market Overview 31
Market Data 32
Market Segmentation 34
Market outlook 38
Five forces analysis 40
Macroeconomic indicators 46
Spirits in The United States 48
Market Overview 48
Market Data 49
Market Segmentation 51
Market outlook 55
Five forces analysis 57
Macroeconomic indicators 63
Company Profiles 65
Leading Companies 65
Appendix 85
Methodology 85
About MarketLine 86
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On his Grammy-nominated album (Best Bluegrass Album 2013), James King, the "Bluegrass Storyteller" offers his own renditions of classic country songs, illustrating through his straight-ahead guitar delivery and emotionally expressive voice the simple yet complex truth of Harlan Howard's famous definition of country music: "It's three chords and the truth."
Gathering around him some of the best young bluegrass musicians around - mandolinist Jesse Brock, bassist Jason Moore, banjoist Ron Stewart, fiddler Jimmy Mattingly, guitarist Josh Williams - and joined on harmony by Dudley Cornell and Don Rigsby, King anoints these country classics, ranging over songs made famous by Hank Williams, Don Gibson, George Jones and David Ball.
The album kicks off with a driving version of The Devil's Train that shivers with the urgency of a runaway train gone off the tracks. King's powerful voice tugs on the heartstrings in Jason's Farm, a song about unremitting loss recorded originally by Cal Smith, and on the Vern Gosdin hit Chiseled in Stone, King makes the loneliness of the narrator palpable. King's version of the David Ball hit, Riding with Private Malone, captures far better than Ball's version the numbing pain of loss and the haunting promise of life lived again through another person: "for every dream that's shattered/another one comes true." King slows down the song so its lesson lingers in our hearts while Ball's version drives too fast around the song's curves for its message to touch us. With his direct and honest voice weaving around Brock's shimmering mandolin, King brings new life to the little known Vernon Oxford classic of lost love and regret, Shadows of My Mind, and King's version of He Stopped Loving Her Today would have made the Possum proud.
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FSW's Corporate Training Center provides a centralized location for FSW's corporate training initiative, the Florida Flex grant, and is the focal point for FSW's customized business training programs. FSW is the leading fiscal agent of the Florida Flex Program in the state and has provided training funds to local businesses including Arthrex, Cheney Brothers, Inc., Chico's, Gartner, Herc, and Hertz, in excess of $10 million for more than 7,000 new employees.
The FSW Corporate Training Center also serves as a hub for the FSW Economic Development and External Affairs office, which includes FSW's Communications and Public Information, Government Affairs, and Corporate Training departments.
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SNES Disk Drive
The SNES Disk Drive was an expantion for the SNES that would allow it to play CD based games.
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The SNES Disk Drive was made to compete with the sega cd. this would be developed by sony, however after nintendo realized that sony had all the rights to the add on, nintendo started to work with philips, who was sony's rival at the time. sony, outraged by this, started developeing games for the sega cd, and also stoped working on the add on for nintendo, and released it as it's own counsel, called the playstation. philips released the add on as it's own independent counsel, now known as the CD-i.
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SNES Disk Drive's design was later used with the satal-view. there was also an add on with a simaler name called the N64 Disk Drive.
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Casio wins coveted NAMM Award11:17, 8th February 2019
Casio Music's PX-S3000 digital piano has been named as one of the winners of NAMM's Best in Show 'Gotta Stock It' Award 2019. Unveiled at this year's NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) trade show in California, Casio showcased its new PX-S digital pianos alongside its ultra-compact CDP-S range.
Two Casio models – the PX-S1000 and PX-S3000 – mark the latest generation of the brand's Privia range, the world's slimmest digital pianos with an 88-key weighted hammer action. Taking their cue from the slogan 'Slim, Stylish, Smart', both instruments are extremely compact and compatible with smart technology.
Featuring a newly developed Smart Scaled Hammer Action Keyboard, the models offer a natural piano touch and stylish touchscreen interface. They also boast a Multi-Dimensional Morphing AiR sound source, capable of producing an accurate acoustic sound-field, plus Bluetooth audio reproduction – some of the most cutting-edge features to date.
'We are absolutely thrilled to be presented with this accolade,' said Neil Evans, Casio's head of electronic musical instruments. 'It is a testament to Casio's hard work and energy that has gone into developing groundbreaking products. The new Privia series is yet another example of our commitment to push the boundaries in musical instrument development.'
In addition to revealing the Privia series, Casio introduced two ultra-compact digital pianos: the CDP-S100 and CDP-S350. Both instruments come equipped with a new sound engine, the Dynamic Stereo Sound source, resulting in a smoother touch gradient and enhanced dynamic range, plus Casio's Scaled Hammer Action II Keyboard with simulated ebony and ivory textured keys.
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Poor education and inadequate company can generate violence
Bucharest, 8th of October 2007 – What are the causes of violence and how can education help in reducing it?
How does the multitude of media channels affect the personality development for young people?
Can media be used for preventing and fighting violence?
On the occasion of the 13th edition of the ARDOR National Debate Forum, SIVECO Romania has conducted a survey among the forum participants – student members of the debate clubs in the entire country, teachers and debate moderators. The survey theme was the phenomenon of violence in schools. The purpose of this survey was to identify not only the main causes that generate violence, but also the most effective ways in which the informational means may be used for fighting this phenomenon.
Deeply involved in the Romanian educational matters through the informational projects that it develops, SIVECO Romania is constantly preoccupied with the current phenomenon of schools' violence, and it joined the efforts of all those who undertake the extremely difficult task of discovering the causes and correcting the effects: the state institutions, the non-governmental organizations, the business environment. This survey is a natural and necessary continuation of an approach begun many years ago, which subscribes to the company's declared mission to constantly promote education. In the same note, the partnership between SIVECO Romania and ARDOR is based on common values, on the belief that the rationally debated dialogue represents the most valuable gain of civilization and the warrant of the harmonious development of a society.
"The informational revolution and the generalization of the current use of the Internet have rendered the easy access to information possible for all categories of audience. However, in Romania, this unprecedented transparency in terms of information traffic is not completely safe. 85% of the respondents have established a connection between the poor education and the occurrence of violence in schools. Thus, we plan to promote an education that generates progress and inhibits violence. Through the research that SIVECO Romania has initiated, our company responsibly draws attention to the need of discrimination in using the informational means within the educational system", says Anca Crahmaliuc, Marketing Manager, SIVECO Romania.
The violence matter has become more and more serious for the civil society because it has been intensely proliferated. Thus, 79% of the survey respondents have declared that they receive information concerning the phenomenon of violence in schools by means of the television. The school conflicts are more and more frequently mentioned in the written press, on television, on the radio or on the Internet. Consequently, the participants in the ARDOR Forum have asked themselves a very pertinent question: Is this phenomenon a real one and is it indeed a reason to worry for the entire civil society?
The survey reveals the fact that the civil society has become more aware of the danger represented by the amplification of this phenomenon (92%), but it also reveals that there are several ways in which the conflicts can be avoided, school – and education, respectively – being one of the most important.
Thus, over 73% of the participants consider that school represents an environment able to digress students from the phenomenon of violence and keep them away from conflicts – which is really rejoicing.
"School should offer a stable psychosocial climate, trying to prevent tensions of any kind. Students should be explained that the best way to solve problems is to discuss and debate, without appealing to violence in any way", affirms one of the survey respondents.
According to the survey results, the responsibility for spreading violence under all forms is divided between: the street (75%), the family environment (54%), the media (23%) and the school (21%).
Among the factors contributing to creating a context that favors violence, the children company is the most frequently mentioned. The survey says that most violent acts can be imputed to inadequate surroundings, which generates devious behavior.
Another element that favors violent acts is the poor education (85%).
"The poor education generates a primitive, brutal, disrespectful behavior and it leads to violence", believes one survey respondent. "When there are flaws in a teenager's education, he/she becomes corruptible, and, most of the times, this turns into violence. Students should be taught to communicate", says another participant. Yet another respondent considers that "education allows for subliming violent urges, and it leads to acquiring human values".
The survey results indicate an increased predilection for violence in the case of students coming from underprivileged family environments. Statistically speaking, the parents' behavior bears an extremely powerful influence on the aggression level manifested by their children.
The attention of the specialists at SIVECO Romania was also concentrated on the area of media usage. In this respect, the survey planned to find out the public opinion about the need of using informational means to reduce violence. This is why SIVECO Romania responsibly deals with any aspect concerning violence control through healthily educating young people.
When asked how the informational means should be used to reduce violence in schools, most respondents consider that a realistic information of students can help them become aware of the negative effects that the encouragement of and the participation in this phenomenon have on all parties involved, and especially on themselves.
22.22% of the participants consider that the informational means should be used in such way to intensively involve students in various educational projects and activities, thus diverting them from negative – and possibly violence-generating – temptations.
19.44% of the respondents consider that the informational means have a strictly educational purpose, while 13.89% view them as real means of communication, education, and expression of young people's personality.
"The exposure to violence may have serious consequences on children of any age. This reality – also confirmed by our research – calls for a realistic approach of the factors determining violent behavior. The results obtained from our survey indicate that school represents an environment able to correct and prevent violence, by using informational means to appeal to students, to interest them in culture and education, and to divert them from all potential violence-generating factors", says Anca Crahmaliuc, Marketing Manager, SIVECO Romania.


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Launch Of New Range of Hygiene Colours
The key feature of the products manufactured from Detectamet detectable polymer is that fragments are detected and rejected by standard in-process metal detection and x-ray equipment. All our products are independently tested and meet current EU legislation along with other international requirements for food contact use.
Visual recognition is also an important feature of the Detectamet range, not just for identification in food product but also for segregation within the factory environment. Detectamet offer the largest range of hygiene colours currently available on the market. This allows customers to incorporate Blue, Black, Red, Green, Yellow, White, Purple, Orange & Pink into the hygiene control procedures.


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The Macallan Reflexion
Single Malt
The Macallan // Highlands, Scotland
Reflexion is an expression in honor to Macallan's fifth pillar, which showcases the whisky's deep mahogany color sucked naturally out of the first-fill hogshead casks. These smaller 200-liter casks allow the spirit to interact with a greater wood surface area. Reflexion is presented in a decanter designed to reflect the light in a way that shows off its natural beauty.
Single MaltDistilled in pot stills from 100% malted barley, produced at one distillery, aged in barrels; if Scotch or Irish, must be aged for at least three years.
Cask TypeFirst-fill Spanish and American oak sherry hogshead
Tasting Notes
"All the classic Macallan notes mingle in this fine expression. Rich caramel bow to spices and candy-floss sugars. The first taste is colossal, juicy sherry with raisins spritzed with the Macallan's signature citrus zest. Crisp oak weaves in and out until the finish snaps to a pleasant citrus bitterness with roasted nuts and chocolate. A soft wave of baking spices coasts by. This whisky won't improve your appearance or help with your spelling, but you feel a little wiser for experiencing it. "


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A Long Time Ago Somewhere in Michigan....
I was attending one of my first game conventions. My first was Origins '78. Three guys were trying to get people interested in a new role playing game they were introducing. Sorry I don't remember all the exact details but mostly the following.
We were in a discussion group (post game or just a panel I don't remember). The guys were trying to interest people in buying an unpublished game, the Morrow Project. Interest was high and we were asked to put down money for a product that would be delivered in about 6 months. We were told there were going to be 100 pre-publication copies made available in order to finance a full professional version down the road. We could pick what number copy we wanted but the first dozen or so were already spoken for. I remember my first choice 007 (obvious) and 011 (my lucky number) were not available. Without those choices I randomly though something right in the middle would be cool so I was put down for number 050.
As promised it arrived about half a year later. Included was a 50% off card for the published version. Since I had this copy I saw no need to use it and still have the card (plus the rest of the package) to this day. A few months later a further package arrived. I remember opening it hopefully thinking we were going to get 'professional' version for free. It was two pages of photographs of the weapons which didn't reproduce as well in the original manual.
Two other things I remember was one of the guys stated the combat results system started life as either his (masters or doctorate) thesis or as a development of the results of the research. I assume is was Kevin Dockery but don't know for sure.
The other thing I clearly remember is at one point near the end of the discussion was the reason for creating background of the Morrow Project came up. The guys stated and all basically confirmed that the original push was they wanted to play D&D with modern weapons. All the mutants etc. were just developments of monsters from their original games. How the game went from those original directions to what we know now I don't know, just the original (proto) concept.
Just a little history lesson from the late '70s.
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This is how T-Bob spent his day of competition. He had a stomach flu that showed up as he finished his first speech. He made it through the speech, shook the judges hands and ran for the garbage can in the corner. He made it. He found a couch in a quiet corner, and rested and slept the rest of the day. He did climb off the couch two more times and do his speech event. It was a rough day, but he made it through manfully. Everybody heard his story, and he was quite famous, or is that infamous?
Here are two special friends. Paul and Elizabeth. We (Elizabeth and I) were following Paul through his speech events. He did Impromptu Apologetics and Biographical informative. He did a nice job.
This was our home tournament so the parents in our club and another close by one had to do all the work that it takes to have such an event. My DH and I had the job of registration assistant and hallway monitor in the old blue hallway on the second floor.
It was quite a bit like solitary confinement. Too quiet for my tastes, but somebody had to do it. My DH did take the lion's share of this duty as I had to make sure the younger children got to their events on Friday and watched some of the older children perform their speech events and debates.
It is neat to see the camaraderie of the competing teams. Most of the competitors become friends through the years.
Here is Paul and his partner. They get along well and do an excellent job. They are both second year debaters.
All of the children in the junior event got a certificate and a bag of candy. They did get called up on stage for some recognition.
Everybody comes in and watches the final round and awards ceremony. There were over 200 competitors and 69 debating teams. It was a BIG tournament.
There were 15 students who completed sweepstakes. That means that they did three speeches. One from each of the three categories, Impromptu. Informative and and Interpretive. They all got a certificate and a bag of candy. Here is Thomas receiving his.


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Coffee with Connie (Hagar)
Name: Coffee with Connie (Hagar)
Date: May 18, 2019
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
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Have a cup of coffee and a donut with lovers of the outdoors. Enjoy learning more about Connie Hagar, the first lady of Texas birders, and her fascination with coastal birds. Walk the nature trails to see plants, butterflies, and birds. Identify plants that you can put in your garden. Find birds from the bird list for the Sanctuary on eBird. Help i.d. birds during the Big Sit. Search the internet with iNaturalist.


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text: Yesterday morning, Style.com released the 2 Covers for Style.com's Issue 5. Starring the always Gorgeous Supermodel Joan Smalls and Top Model Elise Crombez. Making me squeal, just seconds before Geometry started. But ironically enough, as I ordered a year subscription to Style.com's Biannual issues, yesterday afternoon I recieved my Style.com Issue 5, with Joan Smalls on the cover!!!!!!! Now how often do you get to say that you recieved a magazine in the mail, just hours after the cover was released on Instagram?


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The day begins with a confusion of keys which results in me walking to the studio by myself in the rain, a delay that I try to exploit as thinking time in which to resolve both the problems at the studio and a broader existential malaise; it is my birthday, after all. Well, I only have thirty minutes to walk, so I don't get very far with either pursuit. Mostly I wonder whether it might be good human management to make fun mandatory in the studio on my birthday.
Yesterday, however, Leray and I managed to hurtle our way through creating an entire shot list and storyboard, meaning today we each face the challenge of tedium: it's time for me to attempt to start scheduling, leaving Leray in the hands of the Tangibles - and our art team unfortunately have to delegate the less inventive jobs to their temporary ensigns (in this case, stencilling wallpaper).
The shot list seems to be quite completable in the eight days we have assigned to shoot it. Unfortunately, the matter is complicated by the varying availability of our enormous cast and our studio space - questions that I hope will be resolved over the next 24 hours, since the illusion of feasibility that comes with a draft schedule is like a warm hug in these nervous pre-tournage days.
Preliminary sub-hugs come in the form of our first actors-on-set: Felipe, who will play a security guard (and quite possibly the only biologically authentic human in 2187 Bourges) and Josephine, who will play the late Brieanne Morelle - the disgraced former heritage minister responsible for the state in which hero Harley Byrne finds the city. With their presence comes, if not the illusion of feasibility, at least the reassurance of some sort of inevitability.
They are both game, and we drape them in some preliminary costumes before attempting the canning of emotions - the back-up technique used by all major contemporary serials to ensure they can always complete the show if one of their actors should wander off or become otherwise unpresentable. It is a technique we first tried with enormous success with Stewart Lockwood/Harley Byrne himself.
This is actually a very challenging way to act, starting from a discrete emotion (hungry; outraged; numb) with no dramatic context or scenery. But it's a splendid way to get to know each other and to start figuring out the talent's metaphysical topography.
It's also a great way to ensure the actors don't get too carried away with the ol' "method", and engage instead with preconceptions and stock characters. This tends to make Lockwood/Byrne look rather absurd as the only person who's trying to really get inside his character and create a nuanced, sensitive and sympathetic portrayal. He would never 'play' a villain, for example, because nobody believes they are a villain - just a person with certain wants, needs, and insecurities. Josephine, on the other hand, jumps right into being an awful Tory teen, and I find myself measuring her attempts at her given emotions against those of Theresa May (who is actually a great study figure for the 'I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way' type).
Midway through the day, before Felipe's arrival, our daily screening of Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers is interrupted as the Bandits-Mages team invade the studio with cake, sparklers, pink booze and other surely contraband materials. Somebody clicks play on iTunes and by coincidence, Lockwood's singing voice rings out as the track happens to be cued up to his guest vocal on Duett's Running Scared. Niemczyk is noted to have made herself quite at home in the studio, since she is wandering about in her socks (in fact a result of the rain/wet shoes). She hunts out the giant pink monster-feet slippers that Chaillou has found for her, and wears them around the impromptu party, apparently being all about the mandatory fun. Getting nervous, I draw the fun to a stop before Felipe walks in on us: there is already too much to explain.


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The Future of Work
Culture and technology reshape the workplace for a new generation.
At companies everywhere, the concept of work—what gets done, who does it, when, and where—is shifting continuously. But Millennials now tip the scales as the majority age group in the workforce, and they bring with them influences that are redefining "business as usual."
Today, work is evolving into a virtual construct built on culture, place, and technology. The idea is to make the work environment fluid and flexible enough to position not only Millennials, but also Gen Xers and Boomers, to do their best work.
Culturally, determining how employees work best must factor in the type of business, job functions, preferences, and comfort levels. "Flexibility in how, when, and where they work is important to all in the workforce today. It is definitely a deciding factor as we attract the best talent in the technology industry to Juniper," says Felicia Mayo, Juniper Vice President, Global Talent and Authenticity & Inclusion.
Flexibility extends beyond culture. IT and workspace, too, must cater to a diverse set of needs and preferences. "Work is becoming more mobile, disaggregated, and 24/7. It's incumbent on employers to enable that to occur seamlessly," says Bob Worrall, Juniper's CIO and SVP.
Making computing resources more accessible in ways that match employees' preferences will foster engagement by providing feelings of empowerment and ownership, according to Gartner. And giving employees the freedom to choose work parameters promises big payoffs for companies in terms of attracting top talent, employee retention, and productivity. Delivering that level of choice demands a culture and space that promotes it, and the technology tools to make it possible.
For example, workers will always need to collaborate. Fostering collaboration is as much about culture as it is about unified communications software. If engineers prefer to work in more isolation than the open-floor-plan marketing team, so be it—but the engineers still need the tools to brainstorm with colleagues.
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"Work is less about work-life balance today and more about work-life integration," says Mayo. "Employees want to integrate family, work, fun, and philanthropy, all while building their careers and doing something they love to do. This is what gives companies the competitive edge to attract the best talent." Particularly where Millennials are concerned, creating that flexible, connected environment is the key not only to hiring and retaining top talent, but enabling those employees to do amazing things.
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The Avant-Garde has every place in the world of watches.
TAG Heuer as a name combines the first letters of the phrase "techniques d'avante garde" and the last name of founder Edouard Heuer. The avante garde in the name implies the experimental, boundary-pushing nature of this Swiss watchmaker.
This high-level watchmaking company was founded in 1860 in Saint-Imier, Switzerland. The great-grandson of the founder of TAG Heuer is still involved in the company, serving as the honorary chairman. However, TAG Heuer is today a subsidiary of LVMH, a French luxury goods conglomerate.
Not Just Watches
TAG Heuer has expanded well beyond just watches. The company designs and manufactures fashion accessories and of course, watches. It's also moved towards a licensing model, allowing the TAG Heuer name to be placed on a whole variety of products, not just watches. These include things as disparate as eyewear and mobile phones.
The company has long catered especially to men. Its male offerings include a whole range of products like belts, wallets, bags, bracelets, jackets, and cufflinks. TAG Heuer has long catered to the male side of its watch and fashion lines, to a great deal of success.
Always Pushing Ahead
The company's push to become better goes all the way back to its founder. Edouard Heuer pioneered technology in the chronograph, receiving patents on that technology in 1887 and 1882. This oscillating pinion that Heuer patented is still used by many major watchmakers today.
Heuer also pushed ahead with clocks in other formats. He patented the first dashboard clock for use in motor vehicles in 1911. He also introduced his first wrist chronograph in 1914. The dashboard automotive technology would prove to be something that Heuer would continue to develop, adding more patents in that technology as the years went by.
Innovation kept going throughout the timeline of TAG Heuer. In the sixties, the company introduced an automatic chronograph. In 1975, the company added the Chronosplit, a chronograph with dual LCD and LED displays.
Slowing it Down
The innovation has slowed down considerably since the company was bought out by LVMH in 1995. That doesn't mean that the company has been slowing down by any means.
In 2010, TAG debuted the first magnetic oscillator without an offspring handle that was capable of providing the torque of a hairspring.
Telling About Time
Advertising and getting the word out about its products has long been a strong suit of TAG Heuer. The company has had a wide variety of prestigious ad campaigns over the years. It sponsors many popular films and sporting events.
Powerful, adored members of society have shown their support for TAG. These include names like Tom Brady, Cristiano Ronaldo, Chris Hemsworth, Jeff Gordan, Maria Sharapova, Jeremy Lin, Uma Therman, and many more. A major part of this company's brand push comes from its celebrity ties.
The company sponsors a huge number of sporting events. These include a long list of arenas for which this is the official timekeeper. Series A, Premier League, Major League Soccer, La Liga, and more count TAG as their sponsor.
As part of the LVMH family of brands, TAG Heuer has all of the support it needs to continue to be a top watch brand in the world.


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nice idea. i've made, on my first true trigger gun, a simple system modified from the over piece consuming slide gun, that works smoother than the original. the gun fits EASILY into my sleeve, and packs enough of a punch to puncture drywall.
and no, i will not be posting it.
post picture? no bragging rights unless you get the proof.
ok, i've found my camera. but i'm still not posting it.
i have proof, its just that i dont have a camera that works and i dismantled it to make another gun.
lumpy! nah just kidding its um interesting
ehh it sucks and yes lumpy!!! lol
hehe lumpy is a funny word =)
hehe lol ur right lumpy lumpy hippo!!!
With noodles on his back. Oodles of noodles and oodles of noodles.
there is a true trigger smaller than this one
yeah i know it's just a new idea
thats pretty small, great for escaping from capture in knex wars.
i am making a instructable on a knex black storm alien invader assualt rifle but i am waiting for jamalam to give me permission
one thing it is FUGLY
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you hold it whee the front of the trigger is like it shows you on the main pic on step 2


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Hurricane Dorian, the fourth named hurricane of the 2019 season, tied the record for the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the Bahamas. At its most powerful, Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall in the northwest Bahamas on September 1, 2019 and lingered for days, was listed as a Category 5 major hurricane, peaking with one-minute sustained winds of 185 mph and generating destructive gusts over 220 mph (355 km/h) along with a storm surge possibly as high as 23 feet.
In addition to unleashing massive flooding across the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian completely destroyed as many as 13,000 homes, wiping out entire neighborhoods, utilities, airport landing strips, a hospital, schools, supermarkets, pharmacies, churches, and more.
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Survivors of the areas hardest hit — Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco in the northern Bahamas and Grand Bahama — were left without basic resources such as fresh water, food and medical care. Early reports from the Bahama government claimed that 2,500 people had been registered as missing. Ongoing problems include debris-covered roads, extensive damage to water distribution systems, and damage to electrical infrastructure.
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Cross Catholic Outreach is working with Catholic Charities of Miami and the Archdiocese of Nassau to provide much-needed food and medical supplies to affected families and children.
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I am currently re-reading Intervention which reminded me of a character I wanted to capture from another Neal Stephenson novel. So we are still on the literary characters for the moment folks.
Cord Anathem Neal Stephenson
Cord may not have the gift for pure mathematics that her half brother Fraa Erasmus does, but she is smart, talented and practical. Cord's work as an artisan, as someone who can make and repair parts of the clock which is central to the lives of the Concent. Her skills and abilities make the monks dependent on her and people like her. She is also a pioneer within her own society; as she points out, she is the only woman in the artisan workshop where she works, and facing difficulties and discrimination because of that. She is bold and adventurous and willing to take risks. She is loyal to her sib, and she is important in helping to achieve the things he needs to achieve. She is strong in the face of fear, willing to be the one who opens an unknown spaceship. She is also never without her tools. Her personality, wit and defiance make her an engaging and wonderful character, a practical, capable woman who makes things work.
Cord drew a wrench from the thing she was wearing, which seemed more harness than garment, as its chief purpose was to secure tools to her body, She released three vises put the wrench back in its ordained pocket, threw back her shoulders, bent her knees, made her spine long, raised her hands, and clasped them around two prongs of this thing she had made. It came up off the table. She carried it down off the machine as if it was a cat rescued from a tree…
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For me Christmas always starts on Christmas Eve. This year I went to see the Peanuts Movie (which was really funny) followed by a meal in TGI Fridays at Newport Road, Cardiff.
I always enjoy going to TGI's, the food is amazing and there is really good drinks menu. They had a Christmas menu too, but I didn't like any of the things on offer. To me this year's selection was just weird. Normally their Christmas menu is just stuff from the normal menu put onto a set menu. This year was a set menu with stuff you can't get on the regular menu.
I just ordered off the regular one. To start I had Jack Daniels Wings. JD sauce is one of my favorites, it tastes amazing and they are not stingy with the sauce either. Words cannot describe how good it is. I then had chicken fingers and fries. I didn't leave any room for dessert and by the end I was feeling really full.
Before I knew it the big day had arrived and when I woke up I found that my stocking was quite full. I had some awesome stocking fillers including some MAC makeup, socks and these jelly beans from Jelly Belly called Bean Boozled. This is a really interesting idea and is also available in a game as well as individual packs. You basically get two identical beans, one is a nice flavor while the other ones isn't so nice. Stinky Socks looks just like Tutti Frutti.
Under the tree was a load of presents wrapped
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I got a lot of awesome stuff including new PJ's, makeup and skincare. I got quite a bit from Lush too as well as the new Urban Decay Spectrum palette. I also got the new 007 fragrance for men called Seven. I quite like some of the male fragrances and have no problem wearing them. At the moment I'm loving all these adult coloring books that are available, I got a good selection of those as well as some nice pens and pencils to go with them.
It would have taken me ages to photograph every single item so i've just done one big photo. Here are some of the awesome gifts I got this year.
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Christmas is a time for eating a lot. I'm not a traditional person and don't actually like Christmas dinner (shock horror). When I tell people this I see a horrified look on their face. You have to have a traditional christmas dinner, they tell me, it's tradition!!
In actual fact I hate it, I would only eat the turkey anyway as I don't like any of the other stuff that goes with it. Itt's too much fuss cooking it all and what is the point if you don't like it anyway. It's a free country and I am free to eat whatever I want. This year I had an Indian Christmas dinner. Chicken Jalfrezi, Tikka Masala, Rice, Naan Bread and Poppadoms, heaven!!
For dessert were two different types of cakes from Marks And Spencer. The Penguin Party cake which was this really awesome Igloo with sponge inside. There was even a penguin design on the actual cake, how awesome is that. Standing by the Igloo were a couple of penguins. The cake tasted amazing.
The other cake I had was this chocolate tree trunk yule log. It looked fab and tasted amazing too. Some yule logs can be really sickly, not this one.
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The omnicommerce headlines, PayPal COO Bill Ready noted in a recent conversation with Karen Webster, tend to be dominated by the big players and the technologies they are using to follow the consumer across the many channels they shop with those retailers.
Looking at the data from the 19 million-plus worldwide merchants on PayPal's platform, Ready said, tells a slightly different story.
In many ways, he told Webster, it's the SMB merchant that's making the omnichannel news, by making many channels a part of how they do business with their customers. Ready noted that SMBs are innovating across shopping channels faster and more inventively than their enterprise-sized counterparts.
They almost have to, he remarked, if they hope to keep pace with competition large and small. And, more importantly, if they hope to convert a customer into a sale in whatever channel they want to make that purchase.
For an SMB, that necessity, he said, is the mother of their omnichannel invention.
"It's very common for us to see PayPal SMBs selling in three, four and five different channels," Ready said. "They have a physical store, they have an online site for web and the mobile browser, they sell on Facebook and Instagram. Those merchants don't view it as remarkable, nor do they even call it 'omnichannel' – they just say, 'Of course I am selling in four or five places – that's where my customers are.'"
These are merchants, too, he noted, who probably already had one foot in the omnichannel world; "growing up on digital channels," as many may have first started selling on social channels as a complement to a physical stand in a farmer's market, kiosk or pop-up shop.
For merchants in the developed world – like the U.S. – connecting those omnichannel dots is more easily accessible through platforms that help manage inventory, marketing and payment across those individual commerce channels.
Outside the footprint of the developed world, where cards and digital payments are a nearly ubiquitous reality, the situation is a bit different – because commerce across channels is also a bit different.
"We have merchants on our platform that are selling to customers on the other side of the world who use digital methods to pay them," Ready said, "but in their shops and in their home markets, they can still only take cash."
For those merchants who are operating in those economies where cash is still king at the physical point of sale, an omnichannel experience is a challenge – for both them and their customers. Cash at the POS is fundamentally incompatible with the digital transactions their customers use in the online and mobile world.
It's also one of the many reasons, Ready told Webster, that iZettle is such a natural ally in PayPal's global mission of democratizing access to digital payments by making omnichannel payments a reality in all of the 200 countries in which PayPal operates today.
Moreover, he noted, the combination of the platforms means that iZettle's half a million merchants now have doors to scale opened to them via PayPal that would have been hard to imagine just a few months ago.
Built for a Global Audience
There is, of course, no shortage of mPOS players in the world, Ready said, but iZettle is unique in a number of regards – most critically in its global reach and roadmap.
"iZettle is in 12 markets today," Ready remarked, adding that most of the other mPOS players have struggled to move beyond their own market and perhaps one or two others.
The reason, he noted, is rather simple: Card-present payments are a varied experience from market to market, and most mPOS players aren't thinking that globally when they take the stage. Headquartered in Sweden, iZettle was built with a global market in mind and shares many of PayPal's ideas about powering inclusion in the digital financial services and payments space.
That bigger perspective has also been key to how the iZettle product itself has been developed.
Starting out as a cost-effective EMV-dongle for micro merchants that attached to a smartphone, the solution is now a merchant services platform with a variety of client-facing features and back-office utilities for those SMBs. The iZettle platform gives SMBs access to all of the same digital payments and omnichannel options as merchants many times their size.
And for many of those merchants, the opportunity to run their entire business from the smartphone they also probably use to run their lives is something that Ready said is particularly important, given its place in those markets as the original access point for digital services.
There is no transition from desktop to mobile – these are businesses whose mobile phone was the first computing device they ever had access to," Ready said.
Providing the ability to run the whole business from that single digital touchpoint, Ready noted, opens up to those developing-world SMBs the same kinds of controls – and the ability to build their businesses up and out across channels – that their counterparts in the developed world enjoy today.
Twelve Down, 188 More to Go
Ready said that PayPal's plans are to extend iZettle's platform, now powered by PayPal's digital financial services operating system, to all of the 200 markets PayPal is in today. Ready's point is that multichannel is global, and the combination of PayPal and iZettle can bring omnichannel capabilities to developing markets that want and need it.
As for the United States?
Webster noted that in years of interviewing Jacob de Geer, the iZettle CEO always pushed off the possibility of a U.S expansion. He noted that the U.S was a pretty saturated market, and that iZettle preferred to pursue other markets with more of an opportunity to leverage the core platform that it had developed.
"Will that change, now that iZettle is part of PayPal?" Webster wondered.
Although Ready noted that iZettle's focus will remain on the underdeveloped countries, where the need for digital, multi-channel payments is more acute, he said there's always an opportunity to learn and evolve their product in the U.S., consistent with some of the insights that have made iZettle such a popular platform in the markets it has entered.
"The question we are asking – in the U.S, in Europe and all over the world – is who is best positioned to help small businesses connect with their customer across every digital and physical channel they want to meet them?" Ready remarked. "And PayPal and iZettle, together, we believe, can offer a best-in-class answer to that question."
New PYMNTS Study: Subscription Commerce Conversion Index – July 2020
Staying home 24/7 has consumers turning to subscription services for both entertainment and their day-to-day needs. While that's a great opportunity for providers, it also presents a challenge — 27.4 million consumers are looking to cancel their subscriptions because of friction and cost concerns. In the latest Subscription Commerce Conversion Index, PYMNTS reveals the five key features that can help companies keep subscribers loyal despite today's challenging economic times.


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The tenth and eleventh of my 52 Ways to Well-Being* are a pair. Two sides of a coin. Both equally important.
(*I've got to start writing wellbeing as well-being now, as that's what's been decided for both Positively Teenage and The Teenage Guide to Life Online.)
#10 Spend Enough Time Alone
This is much more important for some people than for others. For some – extroverts – it may not seem very necessary at all. And perhaps it isn't, most of the time. On the other hand, there may well be times in your life when you have to be alone and I think it's an extremely important skill to be able to be. Sometimes we can't be with friends or family – sometimes they just aren't available; or we might be living on our own; or everyone else is just busy. So it's important to be unafraid of being alone and I think it's good to practise, even just for an hour every now and then.
For others – introverts – being alone enough of the time is vital for well-being. Without that space to breathe, and not to have to talk or be talked to, an introvert becomes exhausted, stressed and overwhelmed by external stimuli – and then spends the next period of time processing all that chatter.
So, start to be aware and respectful of your need for time alone. If you need more, ask for it. Tell your friends and adults that you're absolutely fine but you just want to relax your brain for a bit. Explain that it's not an insult to them – you love them but your brain is buzzing and you need time on your own. Get them to read The Teenage Guide to Friends, which has a whole section on this, and also Positively Teenage, which covers that and more. Or take a look at the Quiet Revolution website for lots more ways to understand this.
And if you're that extrovert who hates being alone, think about whether it would be useful to practise. It's good to spare time to think, to daydream, to work things out. It's good to pause and breathe – you might find you make better decisions sometimes, if you do. If you have friends who are more introverted, don't be offended if they don't want to spend every day with you. Especially school days – school days are exhausting, and can be especially so for introverts. They just need a break, as much as you need your buzzing noise!
#11 Spend Enough Time With Other People
The other side of the coin is that humans need human contact. We are social creatures who rely on our groups. We don't do very well emotionally and out mental health suffers if we don't spend any or enough time with other people. As I say, everyone's needs for this are different but even a strong introvert (like me!) needs human company sometimes. I work on my own and my husband works away all week so I'm on my own a lot. And I love it. But I also, as people around me know, quite often have friends round for a meal. I blogged here about what happened when I was cut off in the snow recently.
It's all about balance. Extroverts mustn't fall into the trap of not being able to cope with being alone and introverts must avoid the trap of hiding away and cutting themselves off from people.
This needs to include face-to-face interaction, too. Online social media are great – there are huge benefits to all the contacts we can make there and certainly true friendships can be built online – but it's not enough. We miss things in online interaction; it doesn't require enough effort; and it often hides the truth of a person's feelings. Online, you can pretend to be OK when you're not. Face-to-face the other person will know. So you'll get real, true, honest, caring support face-to-face on a level you can't guarantee online. (I talk about this more in The Teenage Guide to Life Online – June 7th.)
Face-to-face forces us to dedicate a bit of time to another person or people. We are wholly "there"; it means more. And that's good for both the giver and receiver of support. One person who has researched and written about relationships and contact is Martin Seligman. Seligman came up with the PERMA concept, in which the R stands for Relationships. And psychologist John Suler (creator of the term "online disinhibition effect") has written about his work in face-to-face vs online relationships in The Final Showdown Between In-Person and Cyberspace Relationships.
So, when I say spend enough time with other people, I mean in real life. Online as well, if you want, but not to the exclusion of face-to-face.
If you're shy, it's very tempting to hide away and to just use online interaction. But it's not a healthy thing to do it too much. You're risking your mental wellbeing and weakening the networks with people who will help you when you need it.
TIPS for BOTH:
- Try to do something on your own each day, even if you find it hard
- Try to do something with other people each day, even if you find it hard
- Value introversion and extroversion equally
- At school, if you want time alone, go to the library at lunch or break – tell the librarian you're totally fine but your brain is too noisy and you want to read on your own
- Talk to a stranger each day – even saying hello to someone serving you in a shop
- Ask someone about their day or how they're feeling
- Meet some friends to go to the cinema – not much talking there but you're with people!
- Work out whether you prefer large groups or just one or two other people – and create suitable situations
- In a group, it doesn't matter if you don't have much to say. If everyone had lots to say, it would be chaos!
For all the previous 52 Ways to Wellbeing, put "52 Ways" in the search box at the top of the page.


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When the sun is shining, and your food truck is surrounded by happy customers, signing up with Truckster, the leading food truck finder, might seem like the best idea you ever had.
How about when you get those inevitable demanding customers, though?
Are you able to keep your cool and resolve the problem, or do you end up flying off the handle?
The Customer IS Always Right
The old maxim that the customer is always right might stick in the craw when you know they're not right. But you should cut your customers some slack any time they have a complaint.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if their complaint is valid or not. Food trucks rely so heavily on word-of-mouth and user reviews to boost business that you don't want negative feedback if you can avoid it.
Much better for you to go home at night talking about that grumpy customer than for your customer to be talking about you and your food truck in a negative light.
With that principle uppermost, you can help yourself to field common complaints with a little planning and problem-solving in place.
Be Prepared For Difficult Questions
"I paid less last time I came here."
"Why the hell haven't you got your most popular item in stock? Why?"
"I want my money back."
Hopefully, these are not questions you'll have fired at you regularly but be prepared to explain why you've run out of a particular menu item rather than making a snide comment out of anger.
Train any staff you have working your food truck to field questions like these. Make sure you've got fixed procedures in place for dealing with refund requests and stick to them.
With challenging questions, preparation is not as much about what you say as how you say it.
In the course of any interaction with a customer, present your best and most professional front. Be prepared for the worst, and it won't unsettle you on that rare day it crops up. And don't get angry yourself, no matter what. That will inflame the situation.
Take Feedback Onboard
You should listen carefully any time a customer complains.
With so many food trucks out there and platforms like Truckster giving customers a wealth of choice, you should always bear in mind that pleasing your customers is key to your business not just surviving but thriving.
Think about those times when you've raised a legitimate complaint against a business. How did you feel if the employee didn't appear to listen to what you were saying and bristled when you raised a thorny issue? Chances are you didn't go back there again to spend your hard-earned money.
By actively listening to what your customer is telling you, even if they're extremely angry for some reason, you can show them that you care.
Learn From Your Mistakes
In all aspects of life, it's crucial to learn from your mistakes. It's no different when you're running a food truck and listening to customer complains.
If someone moans about long lines, there's not too much you can do to prevent that happening again. If, on the other hand, they raise a particular food-centered complaint, use this as a valuable opportunity to fix the problem so that you don't get the same issue rearing its head again.
It's All About Resolution
Whatever the nature of the complaint, and however difficult the customer, all that ultimately counts is resolving the problem.
You don't want to start handing out free food as standard any time someone suggests the fries were a little cold or their burger wasn't cooked precisely to their liking. At the same time, a refund or promise of a free meal the next time they visit can work wonders if used occasionally.
Here at Truckster, we're not about to tell you how to run your business. However, when you resolve common complaints, stick firmly to this procedure. The last thing you want is a reputation as a food truck owner that will hand out free food at the faintest whiff of a complaint so be sparing with the refunds.


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Homework Center
Hagood hosts an after-school homework center that is directed and managed by Mrs. Linda Constance.
The Homework Center is for students in grades two through five and operates from September until state-wide testing in May. The Homework Center is open until 4:00pm Monday through Thursday after school.
Fees are $5.00 per child per day or $20.00 weekly. Fees are due every Monday for the upcoming week.
2013-2014 Homework Center Handbooks and application forms are available upon request in the school office.
Students in grades four and five have the opportunity to audition in late Fall for Hagood's Chorus.
This group meets for practices after school once weekly.
Chorus members participate in Pickens County's Chorus and have the opportunity to perform for an audience.
Student Council
One student per homeroom in grades three, four and five is selected to be a member of Hagood's Student Council.
Meetings are held once monthly after school.
Students have the opportunity to suggest improvements for our school.
YAM – Young Appalachian Musicians
Group lessons are available after school on designated days for violin, mandolin, banjo and guitar after school for students in grades 3 – 5. Instructors teach rote method and students learn to play.
Fees are based on school lunch status, and lessons are offered from mid-Fall until mid-Spring.
Mrs. Anne LaBoon is the coordinator/manager of the program.
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Hi. My name is Jen Selinsky, and I've been a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since 1990. For the next couple years, I found myself obsessed with the franchise. Primarily, there was the TV show. I also collected some of the action figures, plush toys, and trading cards. And though I wasn't adamant that I had to have everything turtle related, those who knew me were also aware of my obsession.
As I merged into my adolescence, I became obsessed with other things, such as boys. I'd dated a few guys during junior high and high school; it became obvious that I'd abandoned my four reptilian friends for a sudden surge of hormones!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the United States. Each year I've been trying to do a story for someone that I'm thankful for in my life. There's so many out there that it's never easy to just narrow it down. I decided to do something a little different this year. Instead of a person, I have a company that I am very thankful for. This company introduced me to my passion for TMNT through their products. They've brought me many hours of joy and happiness in my life and has recently helped my family while we were going through a very rough time. I am so thankful for Playmates Toys and all they've done through the last 26 years of my life.
It's been awhile since I have written here, and I'm sorry about that. My family has desperately needed me, and I've often said "family first" on all things. So Cowabunga Corner has been one of the areas I had to step back from for a little bit to help my family get things in order. While we're still working on things, I'd like to do an update on things to come from Cowabunga Corner. Hopefully soon!
In the second issue of Mirage's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we were introduced to a man who would become an iconic character in TMNT History, Baxter Stockman. Creator of the Mousers, boss of April O'Neil, and a totally evil mad scientist. Baxter was taken in for the original cartoon character first they change the color of his skin, then they turn him into a fly. Mirage brought him back in Volume 2, turning him into a robot.
Life has been crazy busy lately. With traveling, conventions, family stuff, and so much more. I have been on the road more than home once again and finding time to write has not been easy. Back in April IDW released the Krang Micro Series issue and sadly I did not get to it the week it came out. Really I did not even know it was out till I had a comment asking why I did not review it yet. I did take the time to read it, but still had so much other stuff going on that it's taken me this long to finally get the chance to write this review.
Throughout the years of being a Ninja Turtle fan, my collection has been growing. Every year I get something new that joins the collection. Growing since 1989, I have over 500 Ninja Turtle toys out of package and over 300 in package, as well as books, animation cels, original comic art, scripts and so much more. To cover all of this on Cowabunga Corner is not something I really think I can do. Though I get a lot of questions about my collection, so I figured I could do random stories weekly to share one item in my collection. This week I'm covering a TMNT Notepad.
Shredder the villain that holds the most power in just the mention of his name for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Fans all around the world will answer that Shredder is the true arch enemy of the Ninja Turtles. Though any who talk to me know that I have mostly been disappointed in the Shredder, as he has just been thrown in as evil. No real rhyme or reason for what he does. The only universe that gave Shredder a real background on what got him to go dark and full of anger was the Mirage Comics, until now.
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Are We Doing Nutrition Messaging Right?
The other day I was sitting in class and the professor showed us a music video that compared sugar to
Nutrition and Media – An Imperfect Union
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A project for Rakta Studio.
Functioned as a Bakery and a Coffee Shop. The design concept is an open plan concept as theres no partition in the area, making the design feels more spacious and flexibility. Using a wood material, marble, and bronze metal to give the
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A stone's throw from the Louvre and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Sennelier store has catered to the likes of Cézanne, Soutine, Picasso, Karl Lagerfeld, and Sempé. Since 1887, artists have come here to buy their colors that were once hand-milled to order in the workshop behind the store. Among its achievements, Sennelier has invented Helios Red, Cinnabar Green, and Coral Pink.
"One of the pleasures of the painter is to prepare one's palette silently in the studio before starting to work. Another equally strong pleasure is the ritual of shopping at Sennelier where you can find it all, even what you are not looking for," declared French painter and sculptor Pierre Carron. In the store at 3 Quai Voltaire in the seventh arrondissement, white-coat-clad staff with the air of chemists offer artists and art students rare products such as pigments of mineral, vegetable, or insect origin, Japanese charcoal, honey aquarelles, handmade Roché pastels, authentic parchment, paper made with fibers of banana leaf and blackberry bark, bird feathers, silver tips, and unusual pigments including lapis-lazuli.
The man behind this family business is Gustave Sennelier, a man fascinated by the chemistry of colors. He moved into the original studio in 1887 and created a workshop to mill colors. He used a granite table on which he could grind pigments and mix them with oils to make paints. As part of his work to launch his first range of oil paint, Gustave Sennelier traveled throughout Europe — across France, but also to Italy, Germany, and England — in search of the best pigments. He then invented new colors at the end of the 19th century including Cinnabar Green, Transparent Brown, and Chinese Orange, a color the Orientalists were crazy about.
A Friend of Painters
Edgar Degas began frequenting the store in the early 20th century. The demanding painter requested "dry pastel colors in a palette of browns." The artisan experimented with different models before creating his own blend of pigments. Using natural umber and burnished earth from Sienna, he formed subtle shadows to bring out the glow of a dancer's skin or the transparency of a tutu. Inspired by this prestigious collaboration, Sennelier developed, with a great success, a range of 700 different soft pastel tones. He christened the collection "à l'écu," ("coat of arms") in the tradition of gold coins minted under the reign of Louis IX — a symbol of great value.
The Sennelier store circa 1900. © Sennelier
Gustave Sennelier later created a bright red of great intensity and luminosity which he named Helios Red. He rapidly established a post-impressionist client base, including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Gustave Moreau, Henri Laurens, and Odilon Redon. Around the same time, he also launched his Batik Tintout paint inspired by the Javanese art of dyeing, to dye batik material. Fashion designer Robert Piguet, the then assistant to leading couturier Paul Poiret, recommended it to Jeanne Lanvin and the Tintout became a best-seller.
Tailor-Made Colors for Picasso
The Abstract movement followed Impressionism and new, colorful artists came to the Quai Voltaire: Robert Delaunay and his wife Sonia, who painted the famous Nu jaune, often parked their Rolls Royce in front of the shop; Chaïm Soutine focused on reds and whites to render his tormented carcass paintings; and Modigliani earned a reputation for being a bad payer.
Henri Goetz, an American-born, naturalized French painter, was also a regular client, and brought along his friend Picasso to shop. For the rest of his life, the artist behind Guernica bought his "Japanese Simili Paper" from Sennelier. In a gesture immortalized by director Henri-Georges Clouzot in the movie The Mystery of Picasso (1955), the artist traces studies in ink, crayon, and watercolor wash with the addition of pastel for La Coiffure (1923), Grand Nu au fauteuil rouge (1929), and Femme se coiffant (1940).
"I am looking for a paint that will free me from any technical constraint. A color that I can apply to any surface without any limitations, on all materials — raw wood, metal, cardboard, plastic, or paper — without any prior preparation," said the Cubist master one day. In an effort to satisfy Picasso, Henri Sennelier, Gustave's son, created a solid stick of oil paint. The artist adopted it immediately and ordered 48 different colors. And the stick of oil-based paint is still one of the brand's leading products today.
Sennelier in America
With Sennelier's reputation firmly established in France, the brand turned to the United States. Or vice versa. In 1976, American David Davis, the owner of a store in Greenwich Village and married to a French woman, went to the Parisian boutique then run by the founder's grandson, Dominique Sennelier. The two men hit it off immediately. The following year, Sennelier's products appeared in New York at David Davis Art Supply (which is still open but now located in Red Hook, Brooklyn). Soon after, the workshop strengthened its distribution by signing an agreement with New York Central, another family business and one of the finest art supply stores in New York, with a space on 3rd Avenue and 11th Street. Pearl Paint, a third New York art supplies store, also represented the brand on the East Coast.
On the West Coast in California, Sennelier was supported by a French couple living in San Francisco, Maureen Labro and Pierre-Yann Guidetti. In 1981, they founded the Savoir-Faire company and became Sennelier's exclusive representatives in the United States. Drawing on a seemingly endless source of ideas, in 2000 the French pair persuaded their American friends and filmmaker David Lynch to take part in a madcap parade of painted cows entitled The CowParade through the streets of New York to promote their acrylic paints.
An assortment of Sennelier pigments. © Sennelier
Over time, Sennelier adapted its products for the American market, developing jumbo-sized tubes and more heavily pigmented colors. When a new oil paint range of 40 colors was developed, each color carried the name of a great artist, such as Bonnard Blue. Thanks to its innovations, Sennelier managed to earn the esteem of the American public. David Hockney used the colors Helios Red and Chinese Orange in his Grand Canyon (1998), and Richard Serra used the brand's black oil sticks for many of his works.
In order to confirm the brand's commercial success in the United States, Pierre-Yann Guidetti took Dominique Sennelier along with him on lengthy trips, attending shows, public relations fairs, and artistic events across America. They were invited to speak at the National Gallery in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Yale University to discuss painting techniques. Dominique Sennelier was also called on to help authenticate the paper used in a drawing by Miro at the MoMA, and name a pigment used by Cézanne in a watercolor study of The Bathers when the Philadelphia Museum of Art was planning to restore the work. And the back of the canvas even bears the Sennelier stamp.
Now renowned among U.S. artists and art students, the French brand is continuing its activity while upholding its longstanding traditions and pursuing its search for innovation. The store on Quai Voltaire is now headed up by Sophie Sennelier, a fourth-generation painter. Under her management, new colors, products, and blends seemingly created as much with magic as with science are still being invented in the workshops of this merchant of colors.
Combining the Sennelier family's memories and accounts from artists, Pascale Richard's coffee-table book, Sennelier: A History in Color (Chêne, 2012), depicts the epic history of this color creator. The information and quotes in this article are taken from the work.


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An Apple event comes in March but doesn't expect new hardware. According to BuzzFeed the incident will rather reveal the iPhone maker's rumored news subscription service:
Apple has decided a date for its first major product message in 2019. Sources tell BuzzFeed News that the company plans to hold a special event on March 25 Steve Jobs Theater on his Apple Park campus. Headdress collection: The subscription news service that has been over the news today. It's unlikely to be a look: next generation AirPods, or the rumored new iPad Mini.
According to a previous report by WSJ today, Apple wants a 50% reduction in the price of news subscriptions, which the Service is viewed as a "Netflix for news" and offers unlimited content for a monthly fee , as part of a premium level in Apple News.
Sources claim that the service costs USD 10 per month, while half goes to Apple and the rest goes to participating publishers – based on how much time users spend reading articles. Apple will also not provide customer data to publishers, including credit card information and email addresses.
Last year, Apple bought the magazine Texture, which was partly owned by Rogers Media. It was previously reported by Bloomberg magazine service will be part of Apple News and the upcoming subscription model.
When released iOS 12.2 to the public, it will include Apple News for Canadian users, with five first publications: CBC, Radio Canada, La Presse, CTV News and the Toronto Star.
While an Apple event for March is coming, BuzzFeeds "sources" say no hardware is coming, so don't expect new fins or a new iPad mini that pops up.


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Instructors will be asked to provide feedback to students in their undergraduate courses at two points in the fall semester.
- Early Indicator progress survey: September 5-19 (weeks 3-4)
- Mid-Semester progress survey: October 16-30 (weeks 9-10)
Faculty have three methods to do this in Starfish, and may choose the method that best suits their course. The progress survey is one of those methods.


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