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Looking to earn $100 per month
By coolKalai
@coolKalai (70)
December 29, 2008 9:39am CST
Hi Mylotters, I'm looking for a method to earn $100 per month. I've been trying ptc, ptr, ptp sites quite a while and nothing worked for me. So far, my only payment is from neobux. On an average, I can spend a maximum of 20 hours online per week. I tried setting up a blog and driving traffic to my site, but it's not helping me to reach my target. So friends, if you've any ideas or methods which have worked for you, please let me know. I would like to hit my target in 2009. Well,I'm not planning to invest money, I can invest my time and brain, but not money.
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@regal_aeros (2606)
• Singapore
29 Dec 08
honestly i would love to earn that kind of money each month too... it'll do GREAT to my lifestyle expense... as a matter of fact, mylot is actually a great place for you to earn money. if i'm not wrong 100 posts would earn you $1. I'm sure you can do your maths from there. =) post good quality discussions as well as responses and you get to earn more. there are many other sites that pay well, one example is slicethepie. I've been paid so many times from them (i might even need to borrow your fingers and toes to count). they require you to simply review music tracks of budding artists and you get paid per review. it's rather easy and they pay you very promptly. The minimum is 5 pounds and (hey it's double the amount for our currency).
@babylove1983 (176)
• United States
29 Dec 08
How does it work? Do I need to pay a single amount from it?
@chennai_b02 (1735)
• India
29 Dec 08
Yes, I am also interested to earn more than $100 per month.. if you have any idea, please tell me, i need to earn it in a genuine way.. if anybody found any good way to earn more than $100 + permonth, please leave the response here.. I will follow the same.. But it should be genuine like mylot, not the others cheated sites. in which lots of our members suffered a lot.. Genuine earnings i dont mind to spend more timings in a day.. All the very best, keep postings and enjoy mylot, WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR


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She sent me 2 peices of fabric, a roll of owl ribbon, an owl flag, a stitched ornement, a felt owl decoration and an owl scissor fob. I have been wanting to get me the hanger for the flag for sometime now and now I have the perfect excuse to get one.
Here is a better shot of the fob she sent, it goes perfect with my favorite pair of scissors and I just love it.
Thanks Cat for all the goodies!!!

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Expand your horizons and deepen your faith! Be touched by the lives and struggles of our neighbors in Latin America. Next adult trip to San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala - February 9 - 20, 2017.
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Father Greg Schaeffer has passed onto eternal glory. Padre Gregorio was the founder of San Lucas mission in Toliman, Guatemala. Yearly our children and adults spend time with the humble people of San Lucas and our parish generously gives to the Stoves Project.
Msgr. Gregory ( Fr. Greg) Thomas Schaffer Gregory Thomas Schaffer , long time missionary for the Diocese of New Ulm's mission, the San Lucas Toliman Mission in Guatemala, died May 24, 2012 after a long battle with a rare form of lymphoma / cancer. Msgr. Greg was born on January 29, 1934 in St. Paul, Minnesota to John Conrad Schaffer and Ann Catherine (Regan) Schaffer. He entered the Saint Paul Seminary in 1954 and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of New Ulm by Bishop Alphonse J. Schladweiler. On July 16, 1963 he accepted the appointment as a diocesan missionary to the San Lucas Mission Parish in Guatemala. He attended an eight week linguistic course at Georgetown University and a four month Spanish and Culture Course sponsored by the Maryknoll Fathers in Huehuetenango, Guatemala before going to the mission. Fr. Greg was instrumental in helping to establishing many projects during his time in San Lucas. They now have a medical and dental clinic, an elementary school for over six hundred students, a library, various land projects, extensive sustainable housing, a Women's Center, and many others too numerous to mention. He was also responsible for getting the Juan Ana coffee program started and sending it to the States, acting as an advisor for the coffee growers at the mission. Numerous awards were bestowed on Fr. Greg throughout the years as a result of his work with the people of San Lucas and his plight to help them live their culture but rise out of poverty. The most important award was the Order of the Quetzal, the highest honor bestowed by the Guatemala Government for his long-lasting service and commitment to the people of San Lucas. He accepted the award in the name of the people of San Lucas. Some of the others are: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Loyola University in Chicago, IL; International Aware known as Anonymous Heroes Working for Peace Through Development (Héroes Anónimos en el Marco de la Cultura de la Paz) for his work with agricultural and economic development whose efforts lead to peace; Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from University of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA; St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity Distinguished Alumnus Award for his service in missionary work; Diocesan Distinguished Service Award from the Diocese of New Ulm; Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award from St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, St. Paul. On October 18, 1984 Fr. Greg was appointed the title of Monsignor (Protonotary Apostolic) by Pope John Paul II.
He is survived by sisters and brothers -in -laws Elizabeth (Beth) (Martin) Meidl of Lamberton; Judith (Robert McCown) Gust of Iowa City, IA; Geraldine Cunningham of Chicago, IL ; Ann Therese Wiggins of Eagan; Monica (Robert) Schwartz of Tucson, AZ; brothers J. Patrick (Rita) of Saint Paul, John Jr. (Rosemary) of Burnsville, and a foster brother, Robert O'Brien of Omaha, NE ; sister-in -law, Kathy Schaffer of Mankato; and a brother -in -law, Robert Lemons of Saint Paul . He is also survived by many nieces, nephews, and their families. Other survivors include the special people of San Lucas and the many friends and benefactors of the mission. Fr. Greg was preceded in death by his parents , sister, Mary Alice Lemmons, brother , James Schaeffer , brother -in -law, Robert Wiggins, and foster sister-in -law, Janice O'Brien.
Fr. Greg had a great love of sports, reading, woodworking, and being with his family. He loved his family gatherings, presided at many nieces and nephews weddings, baptisms, and funerals for them. He was an avid reader of daily papers and was known to keep files of newspaper articles. Father Greg especially read articles on Liberation Theology which is an attempt to interpret Scripture through the plight of the poor. He was widely known for his efforts in working with the poor. Fr. Greg had a great love for the people of San Lucas and his 'education' into their culture. His smile, his personality, and his ability to talk of theology to farming to teaching to family in the same breath will be greatly missed.
"Fr. Greg Schaffer lived a life of deep devotion to God which in turn gave him the strength to do great things for the Guatemalan families he served starting in 1964. Greg dedicated his life to improving the lives of the people of San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala through hard work, a profound faith, and courage in the face of extreme poverty and at times brutal violence. I visited San Lucas Toliman in 2009 and learned first-hand how Greg was truly the community's father – beloved, respected, and the initiator of tremendous social change. Elevating human dignity was Greg's life's work and he did it through working with poor, indigenous farmers to help them have access to land, economic opportunity, healthcare, and education. If Greg's life was a journey, he truly walked in the footsteps of Jesus. I feel privileged to have known him.
"I wish to extend my prayers and deepest sympathies to the people of San Lucas Toliman, especially Encarnacion "Chona" Ajcot who tirelessly worked with Father Greg. –Betty Mcollum
Congresswoman Betty McCollum serves on the House Appropriations and Budget Committees.
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ANTONIO TARVER - Spike TV's 10th Annual Guys Choice Awards at Sony Pictures Studios - Culver City, California, United States - Saturday 4th June 2016
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The Italian Stallion may have triumphed that day, but the feel-good franchise long since had thrown in the towel. Rocky V did more damage to the character's legacy than Ivan Drago, Clubber Lang, and Apollo Creed combined. It issued a crushing TKO to a collection of films that celebrated victory in the face of impossible odds, and it left a horrible taste in fans' mouths. By all accounts, the final bell had rung on Rocky.
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Labrinth has teamed up with Sia and Diplo to form a new supergroup: LSD.
The Struts teamed up with Kesha for a red and gold themed music video as part of their collaboration on 'Body Talks'.
Brody Dalle's band dropped their first new music since 2003's 'Coral Fang'.
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Watch video above, Welcome and join on International Conference on Social and Economic in Palembang, South-Sumatera, Indonesia, 10 November 2017
SOSEIC – Social Science, Economics International Conference is an interdisciplinary conference among social science issue which bring together researchers, students, trainers, and professional in the field of social science.
Issues surrounding the development of the city as a center of human civilization must have been adorned various columns of media today. People want to know more about the city's significance and improving the quality of human life in general. Specifically. The issue of 'smart city' or smart city in recent years is able to take over the world's attention. This concept brings new challenges to be able to realize its goals, solve the main problem of the city – build new complexities in social dynamics with the benefits of economic development of its people – through the use of cutting-edge information technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of city work. No doubt, the cities race each other to become the initiators and activists smart city trends.
Among the civitas academica Indonesia itself, the discussion of smart city is no longer a new subject. Already in recent years the topic of smart city became popular as a research topic. But unfortunately, both in Indonesia and in other countries, has not found guidelines or metrics to define and apply smart city. Therefore, on this occasion, the international organizing committee of the SOSEIC 2017 conference will organize an international conference with the theme "Smart Campus for Smart City: Building Good Governance" and We invite Academic Researchers, Practitioners, Industry and Business Persons as well as Policy Makers to follow this IC activity.
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Home Fragrance Bead Jars are a great way to fragrance wardrobes, cupboards and small rooms. Much less worry than candles and easy to look after. Just add a tablespoon of water once a week to keep the beads moist.
The scents are created with essential oils and fruit extracts. The beads are biodegrable and can be used in the garden once the scent dissapears.
Some tips to get the most out of your Home Fragrance Bead Jar Set
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November 24, 2015 — RyersonPsych
Student Life Event | The Poetry vs. Rap Battle
Student Life Programs, Songwriters Advocating Teamwork, Racialized Students Collective, Urban Hip Hop Union and Poetic Exchange Present The Poetry vs. Rap Battle.
Join us this Wednesday, November 25th for the Poetry vs. Rap Battle from 6:00-9:00pm in LIB-72.
This event will be tournament style and have 2 divisions, 1 for poets another for rappers, the top winners in each division will receive visa gift cards and the Top Rapper and Top Poet will clash for the prize of Top Entertainer of the Night. As always, there will be FREE FOOD and prizes available to be won!
To compete you MUST email firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up!
What do you need to bring?
- Poets have 4 Pieces prepared and ready to go!
- Rappers have 4 pieces ready to go, that can be either, original work or written work, 1 must be written work. There will be a freestyle round for rappers so be prepared, a fresh beat will be provided.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018
ITOPF has appointed Dr Karen Purnell to succeed Dr Tosh Moller as Managing Director of ITOPF, effective 5 May 2009.
Dr Purnell joined ITOPF in 1994 and was named Managing Director Designate in November 2008. She is a graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry, with a PhD in chemical physics. Before joining ITOPF as a technical adviser in 1994, she worked on toxic waste management and environmental remediation in the nuclear industry and as a research chemist at several universities. Prominent amongst her achievements is the expansion of ITOPF's capability to respond to spills of HNS (Hazardous & Noxious Substances) and oversight of an internal programme of HNS emergency response planning, training and exercises.
ITOPF's Chairman, Bjorn Moller, Chief Executive Officer of Teekay Corporation, paid tribute to Dr Moller, a marine biologist, who joined ITOPF in 1979 and worked there until he retired this year. "During his long and accomplished career at ITOPF, Dr Moller has made a major contribution to building, maintaining and promoting the Federation's reputation for consistent and sound technical advice on ship-source pollution and related matters. We are grateful to him for his many years of dedicated service to the Federation and to the marine industry".
To view the ITOPF press release click here.
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Aug 23 (Reuters) - Illinois' failure to improve its sagging
public retirement system during a special legislative session
last week is a negative credit factor for the state, Moody's
Investors Service said.
"Inaction on the state's pension liabilities will further
strain this lowest-rated U.S. state's finances," the credit
rating agency said in a report on Thursday.
Illinois has an A2 general obligation rating, the lowest
among states Moody's rates. Before last Friday's special
session, Governor Pat Quinn warned that the state's credit
ratings could slide further if action was not taken to lower the
$83 billion unfunded pension liability.
However, the one-day session produced no solution for the
worst-funded state pension system in the United States amid
political squabbling and labor protests.
"There are six legislative session days in late November and
early December, but Illinois may not agree on an approach to
pension funding until early 2013," Moody's said in the report.
"In the meantime, the funding challenge will keep growing."
Citing the report, Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford said
the state could be headed for another rating downgrade that will
increase its borrowing costs. Moody's cut Illinois' rating in
January and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has warned of a
multiple-notch downgrade if the state makes no progress this
year on its pension liability and structural budget imbalance.
Pension costs have consumed revenue from 2011's big hike in
income tax rates, according to Rutherford.
"Illinois' available resources can neither pay off its
massive debt nor cover the cost of providing needed state
services to all of its citizens," he said in a statement.
"Comprehensive, constitutional, and fair pension reforms are
required to reverse this situation."
Meanwhile, Moody's said legislation passed by Michigan
lawmakers last week for the state's Public School Employees'
Retirement System is a positive credit factor for school
"The reforms will reduce (districts') pension-related
budgetary expenses by capping the contribution rate at the
fiscal 2012 level, thus shifting subsequent pension
contributions to the state," Moody's said.
It added that increased employee contributions for pensions
and retiree health care will reduce the system's unfunded
liability "to some degree."


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BlackBerry has announced better than expected quarterly results.
Mixed news for BlackBerry
Mixed news for BlackBerry
The Canadian smartphone maker credited demand for its new Z10 touchscreen device, as it sold around one million in the quarter.
The handset – powered by BlackBerry's new BB10 operating system – is a key part of the company's attempt to regain relevance and win back market share in the smartphone arena that it once dominated.
It shipped a total of around six million smartphones in the three months up to the beginning of March, but sales were below analysts' forecast.
BlackBerry did report a surprise profit in the quarter, thanks to cost-cutting measures, but its subscriber base fell slightly more than expected – to about 76 million from 79 million as of December 1 which clouded its long-term turnaround prospects.
Net income in the fourth quarter was $98 million (76.5 million euros), compared with a year-earlier loss of $125 million, but revenue remained far below the levels of a year earlier.
"I think the one million units is a nice start," said Morningstar analyst Brian Colello. "I think the encouraging thing is that BlackBerry was still able to sell a good portion of older models and generate solid service revenue during the transition. I think that will be important in terms of cash balance and profitability."


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Lithograph by Arnout after de Sainson, showing fishermen in a boat painted with an eye to protect against bad luck, with the Andalucian port in the distance. Illustration from 'Voyage de decouvertes de 'l'Astrolabe': execute par ordre du roi, pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829' by French navigator Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), published in Paris in 1833. The book, (in English, 'Voyage of discovery of the 'Astrolabe': undertaken by order of the king, during the years 1826-1829'), is an account of a scientific expedition to the Pacific. Illustration from the atlas section of the book.
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This week the eyes of the fashion world were fixed firmly on Sydney in all of it's majestic charm as it turned on the magic for MBFWA, 2015.
With countless memorable moments on the runway from some of our favourite Australian designers – who will ever forget the Ellery opener – there was of course also much attention paid to the detail that was unfolding street side and it did not disappoint with Tommy Ton snapping up a storm for a global stage.
Our Aussie style makers didn't miss a beat, from Gemma Ward to our favourite style bloggers and fashion editors, style was on show.
There was no doubting denim as a favourite among the fashionable, after all long days and nights are always a friend of comfortable and chic. For others, a sharper more tailored edge was at play, and as has become somewhat customary during fashion week, plenty of perfectly paired clashing prints.
Trench coats, layering and a stylish mix of textures and power pairings of leather and lace, were the real attention grabbers, along with thigh high splits, and a little bit of skin; not to dismiss the details, pom poms seem to be the accessory of the day, and an "it" bag slung over the shoulder completed the story.
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All things being equal, I'd choose handwritten notes over digital notes any day of the week — but all things aren't equal. While I love the feel of pen, pad, and paper, the truth is that digital notes are way more convenient in this modern age.
There are several downsides, of course, and we'll address them throughout this article, but the biggest problem is that it's hard to be efficient as a digital note-taker. It's just not as easy or fluid as traditional notes — that is, until you learn how to take notes the right way.
Here are some of the most effective tips for becoming a digital note-taking pro, and they're so useful that you may even end up preferring digital over handwritten!
Choose the Right Device
When we talk about digital notes, most people immediately jump to "laptops" as the device of choice. And while there's nothing particulary wrong about using a laptop for notes, most people don't realize that some laptops are actually better (or worse) at note-taking than others.
For example, consider the netbook. These tiny laptops debuted in 2007 and typically have a screen size between 5″ and 11″. Unfortunately, because they're so small, long-term typing can be a pain as typos are far too common and your hands are likely to get cramped 5 Things To Consider Before Buying A Netbook 5 Things To Consider Before Buying A Netbook Read More .
And then you have notebooks and ultrabooks. "Notebook" can refer to any traditional laptop while "ultrabook" refers to notebooks that are particularly thin and lightweight (the name actually means "ultra-portable notebook What Is the Difference Between a Netbook, Notebook, Ultrabook, Laptop, and Palmtop? What Is the Difference Between a Netbook, Notebook, Ultrabook, Laptop, and Palmtop? The term "laptop" encompasses so many different types of laptops these days. Here are the important differences between them all. Read More ").
With a name like "notebook", you'd probably think these are good at taking notes — and you wouldn't be wrong. They're pretty much the choice for all-around productivity, and that includes notes, email, web browsing, chatting, and all that good stuff.
The only problem is that notebooks and ultrabooks can be relatively painful on the wallet, so we might recommend going with a Chromebook instead. They're incredibly cheap but highly versatile, and Chromebooks have improved a lot Chromebooks Don't Work Offline? Debunking the Myths Chromebooks Don't Work Offline? Debunking the Myths One of the biggest criticisms aimed at Google's Chromebooks is that they are online-only machines – ergo, no Internet, no point. How true is this statement? Read More over the years.
Tablets can be a good choice as long as you hook up a tablet keyboard Need An Affordable Keyboard For Your Tablet? Here Are Some Good Options Need An Affordable Keyboard For Your Tablet? Here Are Some Good Options If you're getting a fair bit of use out of your tablet and looking for a keyboard to go with it, you may have no idea where to start. There are plenty of options out... Read More . Long-term typing is almost always a burden, but it's made much worse when you're stuck with a touchscreen as your only option. Don't torture yourself.
Or, if you want to hand-write your notes directly into a digital format, a tablet-plus-stylus can work well, especially if the notes are more than just words (e.g. diagrams, graphs, equations, etc). Smartpens are a better choice for that authentic analog feeling, but can be somewhat pricey.
Use the Right Software
Once you've decided on hardware, it's time to look at software. It's certainly possible to record all of your notes in plaintext using something like Notepad — and I do that more often than I'd like to admit — but your life will be much easier if you use an interface that's optimized for notes.
Fortunately, there are several modern note-taking apps 6 Modern Note-Taking Apps to Keep Your Thoughts Organized 6 Modern Note-Taking Apps to Keep Your Thoughts Organized Ever had a thought slip away and wish you had written it down? It won't happen again when you have one of these modern apps at your fingertips. Read More available and they're all quite good. Which one should you use? Check them all out, but honestly, just use the one you feel most comfortable using.
Evernote has long been the king in this arena, mostly because it comes with a handful of awesome built-in features How to Use Evernote: The Unofficial Manual How to Use Evernote: The Unofficial Manual Learning how to use Evernote on your own takes a long time. This is why we've put together this guide to show you how to take full advantage of the most important Evernote features. Read More . For example, once you've taken a lot of notes, it can be difficult to go back and find the exact note you need at a later time — unless you use one of Evernote's many different ways to search 20 Evernote Search Features You Should Be Using 20 Evernote Search Features You Should Be Using It's one thing to use Evernote, but it's entirely another thing to master Evernote. If you're new to Evernote, I don't want to come across like it's something complicated – it's not, in fact, it's... Read More .
Other important features include easy Evernote backup methods 3 Ways to Backup Evernote (and Do You Need To?) 3 Ways to Backup Evernote (and Do You Need To?) Unlike, say, Dropbox, Evernote does not offer a revision history, your content all syncs as-is. This means you could potentially lose any note you accidentally delete from the trash, or any content you accidentally delete... Read More along with several ways to cleanup Evernote clutter How to Clean up Evernote Clutter for Cleaner Note Taking How to Clean up Evernote Clutter for Cleaner Note Taking Evernote is the junk drawer of our digital lives. Like the junk drawer in our homes, we have to clean it out and organize it every so often. Here's a master strategy. Read More . These are all crucial functions for any serious note-taker.
OneNote is Evernote's biggest competitor, and now that OneNote is truly available for free OneNote Is Now Truly Free With More Features Than Before OneNote Is Now Truly Free With More Features Than Before Evernote no longer rules the roost of note taking apps. Microsoft recently announced OneNote would be more free than ever before. Let us show you what this means in terms of features and functionality. Read More , there's no reason not to use it. I find that it beats out Evernote when it comes to user experience, but your mileage may vary.
If you do go with this one as your primary app, be sure to check out our essential OneNote tips 10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All the Time 10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All the Time Microsoft OneNote is just as good as Evernote. OneNote is the digital equivalent of a binder, giving you more organizational control. We show you effective note-taking tweaks you'll love. Read More for maximum productivity. In addition, OneNote templates are great for organization How to Use OneNote Templates to Be More Organized How to Use OneNote Templates to Be More Organized OneNote is a great way to keep your thoughts organized, and templates can make that process even easier. Learn how to use, edit and create your own templates with this guide. Read More and you should learn how to use them to your benefit.
Lastly, OneNote is flexible enough that it can be used for all kinds of organizational tasks 10 Unique Ways to Use Microsoft OneNote 10 Unique Ways to Use Microsoft OneNote OneNote is one of Microsoft's most underrated apps. It's available on almost every platform and can do many tricks you wouldn't expect from a note keeping app. Read More beyond simple note-taking, and you might just find that it changes your life for the better.
There are dozens of other apps worth mentioning, but I want to highlight Scrivener in particular. Most people assume that Scrivener is only good for writing novels and research papers, but it's awesome for taking notes, too.
For one, you can import all kinds of documents and media into Scrivener, and Scrivener makes it easy to keep them all organized with folders, index cards, and outline formats. It also has a built-in snapshot feature that lets you revert documents to a previous saved version.
These are just a few reasons why Scrivener is the best writing program Scrivener: The Best Writing Program for the Mac and PC Scrivener: The Best Writing Program for the Mac and PC Scrivener has been around since 2006, and it is a favorite application amongst novelists and screenwriters. Scrivener is not a desktop layout application like Word and Pages, but it helps you organize and export your... Read More for both Windows and Mac.
If none of these suit your fancy, we recommend looking into personal wiki software 4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized 4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized What if there was wiki software designed to help you out on a personal level? You could use it for anything, for example to outline your novel, keep track of home improvement projects, or plan... Read More . These are wiki-like notebooks that reside locally on your computer and make it easy to organize and interlink the notes that you take down.
Develop New Techniques
The key to effective note-taking is being able to write down thoughts as quickly as possible but staying coherent enough so that when you return to your notes you'll be able to recall 100% of what you intended to put down.
As you probably already know, this is not easy — but it is possible. One way to do it is to develop your own shorthand.
There are dozens of shorthand variants available for hand-written notes, and you can learn about these all over the web. Many of them don't translate well to a digital format, but some of them do.
Shorthand is all about cutting unnecessary words and developing shortcuts for oft-repeated words. Hand-written shorthand replaces words and phrases with symbols, but when you're working digitally, you can use text expansion software What Is Text Expansion & How Can It Help You Save Time? What Is Text Expansion & How Can It Help You Save Time? If you could save yourself even a small fraction of the time you spend typing, you could save hours of your time every week. That's exactly what text expansion is for. Read More to automate it.
Also, using an outline format makes it easy to group ideas together and see how each note relates to the bigger picture at a glance. And because outlines require nothing more than simple indents, this system can be used in any software — even Notepad.
Mindmapping is a more effective alternative, but it's a bit slower than simple typing (and has a bit of a learning curve when you're new to it). But don't let that stop you. Mindmapping is great and is a skill that everyone should eventually learn 5 Technology Skills You Should Actively Encourage Children To Take Up 5 Technology Skills You Should Actively Encourage Children To Take Up Crayon drawings still have their place, but technology is no longer only the future. Tomorrow's world is today.Which are the creative technology tasks we should encourage children to take up? Maybe, these five... Read More .
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How Do You Take Notes?
Obviously everyone has their own way of taking notes, and what works for one person may not necessarily work for another. Still, we hope that the tips above will help sharpen your note-taking skills and make you more productive.
Have any tips of your own? What tricks do you use to improve your note-taking efficiency? Share them with us in the comments below!
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Great post and interesting thoughts.
I'm coming back around to using paper and then using Evernote's Scannable to digitise them. There are too many advantages to using paper to ignore.
I wrote about the drawbacks of going paperless here: http://nickblackbourn.com/going-paperless-is-not-the-answer/
I've tried to get away from paper if I can (most regularly Notability), but honestly nothing will probably ever be quite as fast and accurate as just putting it on paper. Scanning it in to a program like Evernote is great because it does a wonderful job of OCR'ing your text (as long as it is at least somewhat legible). Biggest hassle is either taking a picture of it or scanning it after the fact, which isn't a huge deal...just an extra step and an inconvenience depending on the situation.
After many tries with both smart pens (live scribe) and apps such as Evernote etc, I eventually settled on Notability. It feels pretty close to writing on paper (if you have a decent pen for touchscreens) and it can record the audio which is extremely handy if you are the person tasked with taking notes as well as participating in the meeting since you can go back later and fill in notes that you may have missed while participating.
I use three apps for my note-taking, and they are all available either offline or in the cloud, so I can access them from any of my devices (Android watchphone, Android tablet, Windows 10 desktop). None of the three apps have been mentioned here so far:
1) Cozi for my shared family calendar - it has a desktop Android widget, and it can stay on a virtual desktop in Windows. I can always see my and my wife's appointments and share updates when I'm online.
2) Pocket for reading-it-later, maybe an article pertaining to Windows that I stumble upon while I'm on my tablet, or the other way around. Searchable and tag-able notes.
3) Keep - for short notes or reminders, to-do/checklists, colour-coded and searchable, on- or off-line.
These three apps follow me everywhere, and I use them every day.
Jeff, I'll second you there on Cozi, even though it's not a traditional note taking app. But whatever works, eh? My wife and I recently adopted it for a unique purpose...we're planning our 25th wedding anniversary in October, and we're using it to plan. It may seem odd to some, but we're taking our son, daughter, and son-in-law along as a sort of family celebration. Our daughter and her husband live about 30 miles away, and Cozi is great for spur-of-the-moment ideas for our itenary and such.
Yes, you can do such with email and texting, but it's nicer to be able to jot a note on an idea for a show to see (for example) into an ongoing list, formatted and organized for everyone to see at any time, than to scroll back and forth through messages.
Google Keep has been a mainstay of mine for note taking and list making for a couple years now, but I find myself wanting a deeper level of notebook-section-pages than what Keep can provide. Tags are great for searches, but I'm a visual guy, and so I'm heavily experimenting with OneNote.
We won't get into the reason why I've tried nearly a hundred varied note taking apps over the last year and a half. I won't name names, but its initials are Springpad. :D
Kelsey, I used Evernote for 2 years, and eventually changed over to OneNote, after trying out a number of different apps, incl. wikis, though I did not try quite your number.
I am very happy with 1N: for my use case it is superior to EN. Only negative point: its web clipper is crap compared to EN's. So if I want to clip something special I use EN's web clipper & transfer the result to 1N.
Peter, I also used Evernote for 2 years, and was actually using it alongside Springpad. SP was for the fun, the nice-looking, the constantly moving stuff, and EN for the long-term practical storage. It worked fairly well, but I wanted one app to do everything.
As I got into Springpad more I realized it could do everything I wanted with it, so I weaned off Evernote. I never thought the 60mb per month upload limit was realistic. I hated how difficult it was to transfer notes from EN to SP. There was a cludgy email method of transfer, but that was limited to 25 total emails per day. Wut?!
There were various and sundry other reasons EN gradually p-d me off, which I often discussed at length on Art Gelwicks' excellent Springpad G+ community (now named Productivity Springboard), but which I won't get into here. The reason I tried so many apps wasn't by my own enthusiasm. There is a young lady in that community who made it her mission to try EVERY app out there so as to give all of us reviews of a sort. We were a desperate bunch after SP died!
I eventually began levering Google Drive and Docs into a system to accomplish what I'd been doing with EN and SP, and up til a month or so ago (read: about a year a half total) it performed fairly well. But I'm very visual, so I decided to go back to ON after breezing over it back in the beginning (Spring '14) and finding it too convoluted for my tastes. I found that there's a sort of learning bump where when you climb over a little peak, it's all downhill from there.
I'm thoroughly enjoying it now, after resolving some sync issues, and I wish I'd done this much earlier. As for the web clipper, I DID agree completely with you because the EN clipper has many more visible functions. But after tinkering with the ON clipper with several sites, I've grown to like it a lot. It has more power than it initially seems to, and there have only been a very few times I've had to do as you did and go to Clearly to clip something.
As I stated somewhere else, Microsoft hasn't put nearly the effort into the clipper (or the phone apps) as Evernote has. But for me the ON desktop beats the EN desktop hands down. :)
Hey Kelsey, thanks for your detailed reply. We got to the same conclusion, though via different routes :-)
I am intrigued by 1 of your comments about the 1N web clipper: "it has a lot more power than it initially seems to", you say. I assume you are talking about version 2. V2 is a lot better than v1:
the pictures get clipped, so does the text, but the formatting does not. With the EN clipper it all there, in other words WYSIWYG, literally.
Have you been able to tinker with the code of 1N's clipper v2? If so, has it improved?
We are getting out of the scope of this article, so perhaps you can drop me a line to discuss this. My email address is
Cheers for now.
I like WorkFlowy , because it is really fast and easy to navigate with keyboard shortcuts.
Speed is key.
By the way is handwriting OCR good enough?? What are you using?
I use a Windows 10 Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga with the digitizer pen. It works great with OneNote, and I can really write on the screen like paper, making abstract concepts like Chemistry a bit easier to take notes on.
I had a device that I got from Kick starter, named the Equil smartpen. I did not see it in the stores ever, but I actually like it. You clip a piece of plastic on the top os a sheet, andpress a button. You can write on it, in several colors, actually, and everything is recorded in the clip. You can then transfer the writing to an Android device (or iOS). There is a function to convert your writing to actual characters, unless you're so bad your writing is unreadable. I actuallylike it very much.
Typing notes in a meeting is fine if you are charged with documenting the meeting and not heavily involved in the discussion. I always feel like the device somehow ends up between the note taker and the rest of the people in the discussion. I stick to a pen and a 5"x8" notebook with easily removable pages for my notes. I then scan the note pages to Evernote. It may not be able to OCR my crappy handwriting but the notes are available at any time on any device that I use.


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The gap between male and female fleet managers' salaries is affected
by several factors. When it comes to experience, the survey showed
that the gap begins at around $3,000 per year for fleet managers with
1-3 years of experience. From there on, the salary gap remains roughly
the same until 20 years of experience, when it widens significantly to
over $15,000 per year; male managers at this level make an average of
$87,083 while females earn $71,666.
Education and fleet size have a less constant effect on the salary
gap. While female fleet managers did report a lower salary at almost
all levels of education, females with a technical degrees were found to
earn slightly more than males with the same level of education. The
largest gap appeared in managers with liberal arts degrees, with males
making an average of $14,000 more than females. Females were found to
earn more than their male counterparts in fleets with between 1 and 50
vehicles, and stay close to even with male salaries until fleet sizes
reache 1,000 or more, where the gap reaches $15,624.
While this data may seem somewhat bleak, consider the following:
across all professions in the United States in 2008, males made an
average of 22 percent more than females. In the fleet industry, that
number is only 15 percent.
Do you think the salary gap is a problem? What could the fleet
industry do to lessen the divide? Leave us a comment below and tell us
what you think.
With the increase in Ford production and Cash For Clunkers picking up steam, now may be a good time to replenish your fleet!
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Katie Heckman '07, Jeremy Heckman, and son, Connor
A different kind of favor greeted guests finding their seats at Katie Heckman's wedding reception. Rather than spend money on objects that might soon be discarded, Heckman and her husband, Jeremy, left a note to let celebrants know that a gift had been made in their honor to Make-A-Wish International. That nonprofit, which grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions, holds special meaning for the Heckmans. They've had several close family members and friends who have benefited from Make-A-Wish's support, and the couple has in turn made it a philanthropic priority. "We know that every dollar we give (to Make-A-Wish) goes directly to an individual who needs a special experience, something fun," said Katie (Pankowski) Heckman, a 2007 Allegheny College graduate. In making their philanthropic decisions, the couple considers where they can have the most impact, Heckman said. And that means formulating an annual plan for investing their charitable dollars.
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"I have a good job because Bob Schwartz stuck his neck out and Katie Heckman '07, Jeremy Heckman, and son, Connor helped me get in the door," Heckman said. "I want to give students that same kind of opportunity that was given to me."
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She frequently returns to her alma mater to work with students in the Geology Department. Heckman also has helped students to secure interviews for a summer internship program at EQT that attracts applicants from across the country. A few Allegheny students have landed those competitive positions, Heckman said. One even received an offer for full-time employment with the company. "It was rewarding to watch that student mature in her field and impress a lot of people," she added.
Along with mentoring students, Heckman serves on and has cochaired Allegheny's Timothy Alden Council Executive Committee. That group of volunteers helps to advise College staff and asks others to give to the Annual Fund, which forms a financial bedrock for the College each year. Through the Annual Fund Grant Program, the Heckmans have supplied $5,000 scholarships for two Allegheny students.
By being involved, Heckman hopes to show future alumni the importance of giving back — the same kind of generosity she saw radiated by her mother and Schwartz. Heckman wants students to experience not only the difference a dollar can make in someone's life, but also the personal fulfillment that's fueled by philanthropy.
"If you can do something that makes you feel good and helps others, that's a win-win," said Heckman. "The bigger the impact, the better you'll feel."


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With that said, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS) released the "Guidelines for Additional Direct Funding and/or Applied Behaviour Analysis-based Services and Supports" yesterday afternoon (August 15, 2016). More information about the Ontario Autism Program can be found on the Ministry of Children and Youth Services website.
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Two bowl barrows north of Rowbury Lane
List Entry Summary
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Name: Two bowl barrows north of Rowbury Lane
List entry Number: 1012191
The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wiltshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Market Lavington
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.
Date first scheduled: 04-Jun-1957
Date of most recent amendment: 04-Sep-1991
Legacy System Information
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System: RSM
Asset Groupings
This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.
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Summary of Monument
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Reasons for Designation
Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the late Neolithic period to the late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 bc. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Their ubiquity and their tendency to occupy
prominent locations makes them a major historic element in the modern
landscape and their considerable variation of form and longevity as a monument
type provide important information on the diversity of beliefs and social
organisations amongst early prehistoric communities. They are particularly
representative of their period and a substantial proportion of surviving
examples are considered worthy of protection.
Despite evidence for partial excavation of the southern barrow mound and cultivation of the Rowbury Lane monument over several years, much of it remains intact and therefore has significant potential for the recovery of archaeological remains.
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The monument includes two large bowl barrows, separated by a distance of
c.25m, in an area of level ground. The southern barrow mound is 42m in
diameter and stands to a height of 1m. Partial excavation of the site
produced a cremation burial set in an upright urn, two further (later)
cremations, a flint knife and Bronze Age pottery. The northern mound is 50m
across and c.1m high. Both barrow mounds are surrounded by ditches from
which material was quarried during construction of the monument. These are
no longer visible at ground level but survive as buried features up to 5m
MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract. It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features, considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
Selected Sources
Books and journals
'Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine' in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Volume 43, , Vol. 43, (), 396-7
Wilts SMR,
National Grid Reference: ST 99963 56445
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If you read the title of this post and thought "I bet there's a tutorial on Facebook itself," no, stop, wait! Come back! Well, they're gone. They're going to miss out, too. Yes, there's a tutorial for adding friends to a page. I'm going to replicate it below. I'm also going to give you a whole lot more information, on other ways to get people to like your page, from the initial growth to long-term strategies.
Facebook has its own conduct and ways to invite friends to its different pages but it do have some limitations regarding this .
How to Use Facebook's Direct Friend Invitation
Invite Facebook Page
Facebook invitation can be given through these simple methods: directly send requests from your personal account. This is the most convenient and fast method. To do this you need to either connect or linked your profile with your page. Traditionally people hide their accounts for various reasons ,doing such things these days while inviting friends on your page is not a good option rather its very unprofessional .
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Key Information
There are certain points where the key information is ambiguous and not so clear. Always relaying on admin tools for this is not a good option, to avoid these ambiguities you need to find better ways so as to avoid future complications .
Firstly, to give requests to your friends go to your own cover page where you find some options at the upper corner, simply click the option invite friends and search all your friends to whom you wanted to be on your friends list .if the Facebook wont suggest you all your friends at once just type their names and find them by looking at their profile pictures .
Make it sure that you click once so that each friend get a single invitation. multiple requests would not be as appealing and it might lose your friend's interest in accepting your invitation rather it would be more annoying.
Log-in Facebook from your mobile phone or from any other device would be different as it has its own features .so you need to have a better access to computer to learn Facebook faster.
Mobile devices are having different browser as compared to other android or I-phone devices. but when you login Facebook the procedure to invite friends to like your page is almost the same as when you send invitation by using Facebook from computers .
How to Import Mailing Lists
Using the Services of Mailchimp
Another way to promote your page is by allowing access to large number of audiences who are not in your friend's list .attracting more audience you need to send as many requests to unknown profiles as possible .although Facebook has its own limitations regarding this but for this keeping just friends in mind is not a good option instead a broader approach is necessary .
Making a list of emails is a genuine approach. you can accumulate a number of email ids through different sources. workplace is a better option, where ever you are working simply asked for the mailing list and make it save through any professional email management system .moreover any such help in managing email lists would be crucial .
The accessible services include Constant Contact, Mailchimp, Vertical Response, AIM, Outlook.com/Hotmail, Yahoo!, or "other email service" which covers Gmail. Facebook also provides help in such mailing matters, but its accuracy is uncertain .
Encouraging maximum Sharing
You can also encourage your existing users to share your page. The process for them is simple; all they need to do is click the big "share" button on the cover photo, choose the friends they want to share the page with, and submit the invitations.
It's relatively trickier getting them to actually do it. I recommend some kind of online contest. Promise something like a 25% off coupon for your product if you achieve a certain milestone number of page likes by a given time frame. Encourage users to share your page with their friends in order to get the discount.
It is not advisable to hide the coupon code behind a required like. This is called a like gate, and Facebook blocked them, with good reason.
Massive Audience and Low Reach ; A No No
This, of course, led to massive audiences with really low reach and engagement. You would have a page with thousands of likes, but none of those people cared about your brand. They didn't un-like the page after the contest, because no one does that. Then, when the brand tried to send out messages, they were ignored. Some might even mark them as spam, because they didn't remember liking the page and didn't want their messaging on their feed. This was all-around detrimental to the business in question.
Still, like gates were a great way to get a ton of people liking your page, so people used them, consequences be damned. The only good way to use them would have been to run a contest with a product related to your business, or a coupon for your business. The only people who would like your page are those people interested in your product. Of course, no brand had that much self-restraint, and many have to fight the fallout of a disengaged audience even to this day.
One of the primary problems with like gating is that it makes your audience unreliable. You can't target by the demographics of your audience when a huge amount of your audience is disengaged and only followed you for a contest. They might not actually represent the demographic you want to reach.
The same goes for using interest targeting. Interest targeting on Facebook just goes by people who like pages other than your own, so you could target your competitors' audiences. What good is that, though, if your competitor's audience is just as broken?
Like Gating
Social Locker
There's one form of like gate that still works, though I would never suggest using it. Have you ever been on a website that use clickbait and gone to click a blog post only to see "if you want to read this article or see a bunch of funny pictures, please like us on one of our social media pages"? I have. It's called a social locker, and I hate them and I guess everyone using Facebook frequently will agree with me. This is called Clickbaiting for Likebaiting. Facebook has banned the usage of like gating and for genuine reasons though.
There is also another type of clickbait where there is just a play icon with a catchy headline like 'Watch this shocking video of how the nurse treated the newborn'. This might get the attention of quite a few people. So in order to watch the video you have to like the page.
Social Locker Testing
To see whether social locker is working for you. You'll have to do some testing yourself to see if a social locker does the job what it is supposed to do. I don't think hiding your content behind a social act is a good idea, and the only semi-successful blogs I've seen use it generally only uses it to lock 1-2 bullet points on a 20+ bullet list, so the majority of their content is still visible. Which doesn't do the job.
SEO Glitches
In my opinion there's no difference between this and making your page a paysite and hiding your content behind a minor or major fee whatever you choose . Sure, a bit of social engagement is "cheaper" than a $2.99 fee or whatever, but it's still a major hurdle. Here's another problem; it hides the content from Google. Any content you've hidden behind a social locker is not visible to Google.
If you try to make it visible to Google, the user can just use the cached version of your page to view it. So your content cannot be Search Engine Optimized. Because the content is not available to be optimized. These days not being able to bring your website on the top is a major setback. How many people you have seen who click the 5th or 6th search result on their Google? none. I always go for 1st or 2nd option.
Social Locker a Great Idea or not ?
In my opinion the whole scenario of social locker is a great idea. You are hiding a catchy article behind social engagement and tons of traffic is pretty fruitful. Giving the people an incentive to like your page and go through all your posts one by one is good for your engagement. It is also the first option marketers thing about while considering the marketing of your page.
The thing is, you can't 'think' your content is valuable enough. Personally, if I'm writing a post and I see your social-locked post, I'm just going to skip it and reference something else. If you must hide something behind a social lock, hide a discount coupon for your store or an ebook or just a catchy video, something that isn't there for SEO in the first place.
Hiding your content that can be search engine optimized is a big no no. Always keep your content visible to the general public. So the content is available all the time. Keeping it visible will also help your audience to visit your page and go through the posts any time.
Script of Bulk Invite
The button will be on the upper corner of the screen. The user will be liking the site it doesn't matter if the site has a Facebook page available or not. This is more of a share button rather than just a like button. Let's not mix up both of them.
However, if you try to put it to work, it just refreshes your page. Something in Facebook's Application Program Interface has altered since the code was created, and it no longer works.
What works but isn't ethical; Clickjacking
This is very low technique that I came across the other day and every other day while I am scrolling through my newsfeed. I am not going to mention the link because it is also low and trust me its lower than using clickjacking!
Basically, what this technique does is snips a click the user planned to make and redirects it towards something they didn't want to see . The page I saw did it by using a normal Facebook like button, but scaling it up so it was larger thus making it more attractive and click worthy, putting it in front of its content, and making the content invisible.
That way if I want to read the content I would have to click the like button first because the first click failed to work for me. It seemed a natural problem at the time though.
To my benefit I have installed Noscript installed and very much functioning for me. This noscript warned me of a scummy attempt a.k.a clickjacking. As a curious person I started digging it a bit deeper and found out what I just mentioned before. If I hadn't installed my best pal noscript it would have worked, just like for the people who don't use it. in my opinion it is a valid tactic.
Also it is very shady. I would never recommend using this black hate technique.
What qualifies as Black Hat?
Now there is another issue with it. The hidden button and the invisible text qualifies as black hat to Google. it also means that Google will demote the content and your site from SEO. I am quite stunned though that I website I mentioned was ranking in top 5 of the searched results.
Grow your page With Facebook Ads
Now we have discussed the black hat tactic and discussed its pros and cons, mostly cons though, let's discuss some other ways to promote your page.
There is a very legal and effective way of using Facebook ads.
Facebook ads allow you to stipulate the Page Likes objective. It will take your targeting and optimize your ads. It will also show to the people within your prospective audience who are most likely to like your page. So it really targets the audience you want to like your page. If you have a physical store it will track your location. It will send the ads to people who are in 20-mile radius or so.
Caution: when you are running in ad, you have to be very careful of fake likes that are everywhere. Especially if your page is visible in countries like India or Bangladesh, there is a huge possibility that your ad will fall prey to clickfarm.
What are Clickfarms?
Clickfarms are computer labs full of people who do nothing except liking pages. They sell their services to low quality, shady like sellers who are not trustworthy at all. However, it's really obvious to Facebook when the same 10,000 accounts all go like pages one after another. So these clickfarm employees are encouraged and even paid to like random pages to obscure their actions. It is also not beneficial to you in any way. The fake likes will not participate in any conversation. This means they go through Facebook ads and like pages that run them.
The easiest way to protect yourself against these clickfarms is to limit the geotargeting on your Facebook ads. You can also recognize any fake follower you find and inform them to Facebook for removing them from your page . It's a slow process, but you may get that follower removed from Facebook totally rather than just from your page. This is a favor for everyone else as well
How to Grow your page Organically?
You always have organic growth, that's for sure . Posting quality content and inspiring people to share is the pace maker of Facebook organic engagement. Pictures are worthy for this, as are useful or viral blog posts and memes. You'll want to evade clickbait headlines, though; as catchy as they are, Facebook has been demoting them.
Another thing to avoid is overly self-promotional posts. If you're being too self-promotional, Facebook will not encourage those posts as well.
In the end it matters that you post excellent content, be active, and try to be a great content curator. These are the solid techniques that will take your page a long way. This way people who like your page will actually participate in the comments and reply to your queries.


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· Gurnee park district: Toddler open gym
o 920 N. Hunt Club Rd, Gurnee, IL 60031
o 847.623.7788
o Mondays 9:00a-10:30a
Tuesdays 11:00a-12:30p
Thursdays 9:00a-10:30a
o Daily rate: $3 for residents, $4 for non
o http://www.gurneeparkdistrict.com/toddler-open-gym
· Grayslake Park District
o 240 Commerce Drive, Grayslake, IL 60030
o Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30 to 11:30 am
o $3 for residents, $5 for non
o http://www.glpd.com/grayslake-park-district-events-calendar/
· Round Lake Park District
o Children's neighborhood museum
o Morning session: M, Tu, W, S from 9:30 am to 11:30 am
o Afternoon session: M, Tu, W from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
o Evening session: M from 5:30 to 7:30
o FREE session: W 5 to 6:30 pm
o 814 Hart Rd, Round Lake, IL 60073
o Admission is $5 per child
o http://www.rlapd.org/programs-childrens-museum.cfm
· Glencoe Park District
o Child friendly indoor play area
o Wednesday from 10:45 am to 11:30 am
o http://www.glencoeparkdistrict.com/Programs/Early-Childhood
o Children under age 2 and a guardian
o $2 per family
· Sullivan Community Center
o 635 North Aspen Drive, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
o Variety of toys including balls, big wheels, scooters, hula hoops, push toys, and small basketball hoops.
o Parents must supervise their children. This is a drop-in program.
o Ages: 1-4 years
o Mondays and Thursdays 8:30 am—10:30 am
o $3 Resident $ 4 Non-resident


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Pac-12 South race
With two weeks to play in the regular season, Colorado, Southern California and Utah all have a chance to win the Pac-12 South division. Plenty of scenarios could come into play for each team, but here is the easiest path to the title for each of the contenders (listed in order of current standings):
1. Colorado (8-2, 6-1): Win the last two - home against Washington State and Utah - and the Buffs take the division.
2. USC (7-3, 6-2): Trojans need to beat UCLA in their Pac-12 finale on Saturday, but also need CU and Utah to each lose once.
3. Utah (8-2, 5-2): Like CU, the Utes will win the South by winning their last two - home against Oregon and at CU.
With two weeks to play in the regular season, the path to the Pac-12 South championship goes through Boulder.
"We win out and we go to the Pac-12 championship, so it's exciting," Colorado head coach Mike MacIntyre said. "It's a lot of fun."
Sitting alone atop the South, the 12th-ranked Buffaloes (8-2, 6-1 Pac-12) do control their own destiny. They also know, however, that No.15 Southern California and No. 11 Utah are ready to pounce if the Buffs fall.
Starting with Saturday's showdown against No. 20 Washington State (8-2, 7-0) at Folsom Field, the Buffs have no margin for error if they are to complete their season-long quest for the Pac-12 championship.
"It is a playoff mentality for us," junior running back Phillip Lindsay said. "We don't want to lose. We've worked so hard for this opportunity here."
For the first time since joining the Pac-12 in 2011, the Buffs go into the last two weeks with a shot to reach the conference title game, to be held Dec. 2 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
To get there, the Buffs likely need to beat Washington State on Saturday and then knock off Utah (8-2, 5-2) on Nov. 26. Winning both games assures the Buffs of a trip to Santa Clara.
Lose one of them, and the Buffs could be in trouble.
USC (7-3, 6-2) has just one conference game remaining - Saturday against UCLA - and the Trojans are an 11-point favorite. If USC wins that game and CU loses once, the Buffs can't win the South.
A USC loss would give the Buffs a little wiggle room, but not much, so in essence, CU has to be in playoff mode from here on out.
"There's more at stake with a win, so I'm hoping their intensity is always high and ready to go," MacIntyre said. "Our guys will be fresh and ready to roll."
They have no choice, but Lindsay said this is what the players have wanted all along, to have this opportunity this late in the season.
"It's very exciting," he said. "We've worked so hard to get to this point and this moment. We've shed a lot of tears and blood. We just have to stay focused on the task at hand. We just need to go out there and play Colorado football."
Outside of Michigan and USC - which both beat the Buffs - Washington State presents arguably the toughest challenge CU has faced.
"Our intensity has to go up a level," Lindsay said. "We're about to play a real good team; a real good team. Defensively, they're going to be one of the best defenses we've played this year. Offensively, they move the ball just like us. All of us are going to have to do it.
"Our intensity has picked up. It's picked up because we've got two more games to define where we want to be. We're so close, so we have to stay focused and we've got to stay intense.
"We're not playing tight. We're still the same. We just know that we have to handle our business."
Praise for Falk
Washington State head coach Mike Leach has always been known for getting excellent production out of his offense. This year is no different, as the Cougars rank eighth nationally in scoring (44.3 points per game) and 10th in total offense (517.5 yards per game).
MacIntyre had high praise for the man running that offense, quarterback Luke Falk. The junior leads the country in completion percentage (73.9) and he ranks 12th in pass efficiency.
"No. 1, their quarterback is extremely accurate," MacIntyre said. "No. 2, their running game has improved this year. It's giving them another dimension. Falk does a great job of getting them into runs and getting them into runs that Mike wants to get them in to.
"Their quarterback completely thinks like Mike does out there, and I think that's why they're so productive."
Falk has thrown for 3,610 yards, 33 touchdowns and only six interceptions.
Left guard Gerrad Kough, who sprained his ankle in Saturday's win against Arizona, did not practice Monday. MacIntyre said the Buffs are hoping he can do more as the week goes along. ... Left tackle Jeromy Irwin (illness) and right tackle Sam Kronshage (shoulder), who both missed the Arizona game, practiced Monday. ... Tight end Sean Irwin, who tweaked his knee against Arizona, was "moving around some" at Monday's practice, MacIntyre said. The Buffs are optimistic he will play Saturday.
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A couple of weeks ago I preach on Mark 1:21-39, specifically highlighting that the gospel of Mark is giving us a picture of what a typical day would have been like for Jesus. I wanted us to remember that as much as Jesus was divine he was also human.
In the sermon I used Irenaeus' idea that in the incarnation Jesus accomplished the "work of recapitulation," which I said had to do with Jesus passing through ever stage of human life. This is important because it reminds us that salvation doesn't just come through Jesus' death and resurrection but also His birth. That God is with us in the flesh is a part of the salvation story that we tell.
Since then I have wanted to clarify this a little bit because I think I left some things out. Obviously no one can say it all in one sermon.
So, with the help of N.T. Wright, who I think says it about as clearly and concisely as anyone around (Brit's are so dang good at brevity!), I would like to add some clarification to the humanness of Jesus and His work of recapitulation.
And I am totally paraphrasing Wright so feel free to correct me in the comments with actual quotes.
Basically God has an "Adam" problem that He decides to fix through "Abraham." Adam symbolizes the entire human race and Abraham symbolized the chosen people of God (The Hebrew people, Israel). These are key people for Paul in the book of Romans. In Adam sin, death, and corruption have marked God's creation and it is through Abraham and his descendents that God decides to fix/redeem the creation.
God writes His character onto a particular people so that through them the whole world would once again bear God's image and share God's character. Abraham is called to be a blessing. This is about holiness and love. Through Abraham God would restore Adam, through the particular God would restore the whole. Some are elect but only for the sake of inclusion, not for the sake of exclusion. Election is for the life of the world. Remember that!
But along the way God begins to face an Abraham problem. His chosen people aren't faithful. Now God has two problems: He has a creation problem (Adam), in that His main goal is to restore the original intent for His creation, which is to bear God's image and to share in God's character, to keep and till the earth, to cultivate, create, build, produce, and govern this world as God's vicegerents (Wright's word). And now He has an Abraham problem in that the people who were supposed to be a microcosm of God's character (love, holiness, justice, peace, forgiveness, mercy) look and act just like everyone else in the world. The creation is still corrupt, marked by all kinds of Sin and death.
And not only that, God's own character is on the line because He has entered into a covenant with a particular people (Abraham, Israel) and they are not reflecting God's image/character very well. This begs the question that if they are not faithful then what does that say about God? How can we trust God?
So, in order to deal with these two problems, God comes to us in Jesus. Jesus fulfills the call of Abraham to be a blessing to the nations and in doing so fulfills the call of humanity to keep and till the earth, to bear God's image, to share in His character. Humans were to bear that image, not just the chosen people. But it was through the chosen people that God chose to restore His creation, and specifically humanity's capacity to bear the image of God. God wrote His character in small on Abraham (one small nation) so that it would spread to Adam (all other nations) and that this has happened in Jesus. Jesus was faithful as a Israelite and, thus, as a human, He bore the image of God, He shared in God's character, which means blessing for the life of the world.
So back to the sermon. This means that it's not enough to say that Jesus passed through every stage of human life. We can poke too many holes in that by saying, "but Jesus was a male, so what about females? Are they not saved because He didn't pass through every stage of life as a female?" Or, "He was Jewish so what about Americans?" Or "He never lived to be eight years old, so what about the elderly?" Recapitulation is not about making Jesus' existential experience of the world exactly like ours.
The idea of recapitulation is more about humanity's capacity once again to bear God's image once again, to share in God's character, to fulfill our call as governors of God's creation.
Of course, there is a whole other side to this regarding Jesus' divinity, which we also have to confess to be true.
But I wanted to make a point to saying something about the necessity of His humanity as it relates to the story of God we read in the bible. I hope this clarified some what I was trying to say in my sermon about the humanity of Jesus.


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I don't know how you celebrated Easter as a kid, if you celebrated it at all. But today, I'm going to tell you about the way my family did it; as a mildly-religious celebration of spring's arrival. These were the must-haves:
1. You must have colored eggs:
You can pick up any number of imported egg-dyeing kits at your local supermarket, but there are also some eco-friendly, made-in-USA alternatives, like Eco-Eggs. Keep in mind that natural dyes from fruits and vegetables produce beautiful, but much softer colors and can take longer to fully saturate the egg. Take your kids' patience – and yours – into account.2. You must have easter baskets: Most of the Easter baskets you see in the store are cheap imports. Why not get a good basket and start a tradition of using it every year? Check out these Amish-made baskets.3. You must have Easter basket grass: We used the plastic stuff when I was a kid, but now you can buy recyclable, biodegradable paper "Eco-grass."
4. You must have chocolate rabbits:
These huge standing bunnies are from Bissingers. The company makes a wide variety of Easter candies, including those shown at the top of the post.5. You must have Peeps. Enough said.6. You must have Jelly beans!
7. You must have that slightly scary lamb cake your grandma used to make. Nordic Ware makes the cake mold in the USA.
8. You must have an Easter Outfit: These Kids' Dream Flower Power dresses are as cute as can be and perfect to celebrate the colors of spring.9. …or an Easter suit. And the Boy's suits from Lito are adorable.10. Finally, you must make some in-your-face statement about the arrival of Easter outside your house, whether it be special Easter flags and mailbox covers, or some Giant Weatherproof Easter Eggs in the shrubbery!