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What is E-Mail Marketing?
To simplify it Email Marketing is a targeted mass mailing done via email. The purpose of email marketing is to advertise, recruit new clients, introduce a new set of products or services to an existing client base, and/or to keep your clients informed by means of newsletter, etc. All of the above mentioned are legitimate business efforts, as long as you respect some of the unwritten rules and as long as the list of emails you use is "targeted". In other words the names and emails must come from a database that is generated by your marketing division and represents your existing client base, a carefully selected list of potential prospects, or a list of people who opted in to receive messages (also known as an Auto-Responder).
If you are not attracting targeted traffic and is buying your list or is emailing people without their consent then you are considered a spammer and what you are sending is spam, bulk mail, and unsolicited mail. You are in so many words the enemy of all things in the virtual world. People hate spammers and it is easy to be labeled a spammer and once caught it is very hard to get out of.
So obviously, opt-in email advertising is far more cost effective than direct marketing via regular mail, door-to-door sales, or telemarketing. Paper, printing, envelops, and postage can add up quickly, door to door sales requires a lot of leg pushing and people are not so easily to open their door to strangers, and telemarketing well with the way cell phones are set up now a days with caller ID you're subject to go straight to voice mail or if you're lucky to get someone to answer you probably will get hung up on the moment you start talking.
So why not use your personal email or some mailing software?
In the early days of email marketing (before the art of penile enlargement was crated), that's what people did. They would gather all their email into some primitive version of a spreadsheet, fire up some mail merging program, hook it you to their mailing software and viola, thousands of emails were flying away.
Today, the scenario is certainly possible, but this is what could happen:
One of the many not-for-profit groups that decided to police internet will intercept that a large number of emails were generated and/or by a server near you. In order to protect the civilized virtual world from those who spread spam, viruses, and other vermin, they will put you on a list of threats. Those nice corporate folks who were your intended recipients, have an IT department that gets constantly yelled at by angry users who get email with naked people, videos, or porn. So, Tim, their IT guy decides to put up an anti-spam system that links to that not-for-profit's database of known spammers (that's YOU…yea you are now a KNOWN SPAMMER) and all your email are now block. The software is so powerful that you and/or the company will have trouble communicating via email and you and/or your IT folks will go mad and this could potentially lead to you losing your job/business.
Not good…and another thing that could happen is: you'll have to build some opt-in/opt-out system. In some states there are laws that require you to make it very easy for your audience to unsubscribe, you'll have a hard time formatting your email in a decent, eye pleasing way, etc.
Lastly, the process of sending thousands of emails and managing lists, subscribing and unsubscribing people is tedious and annoying. The only way to do it is with a maximum degree of automation or to outsource to a company that does it for you.
You may be turning your nose up at the thought of paying for a service, but when it comes to mass mailing it's to much too handle and is best to go with a automate system.
If you are worried about cost, know that the fee you pay for email marketing services, will still costs less than the continued overhead and expenses of the traditional options, not to mention the great possibilities of reaching a much larger audience, much faster (practically instantly).
What you should look for in an email marketing service?
1. Automating Your Subscribe and Unsubscribe Requests
Many email marketing service will provide you with an HTML code you will need to paste to your site so that you will have a subscription form on your web site. Most will also provide a link at the bottom of each email that enables subscribers to update their information or to unsubscribe from a list, automating everything for you.
2. Personalization of Emails
Another powerful feature of many email marketing services is the ability to use mail merge capabilities to personalize each email that you send. Most service have custom fields, additional to the standard first name and last name.
3. Bounce-back email handling
Bounce-backs are emails that are sent to email accounts that no longer exist or are full, blocked, etc. Essentially, you'll get a response stating that your message did not make it. All email list management software programs are able to manage subscribe and unsubscribe requests and send out messages; however, without integrated bounce-back email handling all the non-deliverable emails will be sent back to you, a whether big nuisance if your list is large. Ideally, the email software you use will be able to manage your bounce-backs for you. Whenever a bounce-back is received, the software makes a note of the address and if another bounce-back is received the email address will be sent to a list of dead addresses.
This remove capability is extremely important since if you continuously send out email with many bounce-back you be blacklisted as a spammer. This is something you really want to avoid at all cost.
4. HTML Email
The ability to send out HTML emails has been around for quite some time. Most email marketing companies support the ability to send out messages that include graphics and formatted text.
However, not all users have the ability to view email messages in HTML format. This percentage is usually between 5-15%. Instead of seeing your aesthetically pleasing email they might see a string of meaningless coding. Using most email list management programs, these 5-15% of users will more than likely open up emails from you and be very inclined to call you a spammer.
To avoid this, look for companies that use multi-part MIME to send out messages. When you send an HTML email in mulit-part MIME, those users who do not have the ability to view HTML messages will receive the email in the usual text format.
So who should you use?
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This review has been so long in coming, you wouldn't believe. It can be difficult to review classics though – a lot of people have already read it and therefore already have their opinions, and the reviewer worries about getting it 'wrong.' In addition, I have an odd relationship with Dickens to begin with – A Christmas Carol is one of my all-time favourite books and always will be, but Oliver Twist bored me almost senseless. It's not easy to read another of this books without comparing it to one or the other of those two. What I'm trying to say is… bare with me – this review may not be the most coherent!
Plot summary: Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all – the truth about himself.
My opinion about Great Expectations isn't quite as clear cut as A Christmas Carol or Oliver Twist. My interest levels shot constantly up and down, so I couldn't really maintain a steady reading pattern. At times I was absolutely riveted – completely immersed in the plot and the characters, unable to put it down – but then other times I really just desperately wanted to be reading something, anything else. This meant I had to be careful when to stop reading, to ensure I actually wanted to pick it back up later.
It gets going pretty quickly – we meet Miss Havisham, arguably the most famous and interesting character, after only 60 pages or so. I didn't actually know the plot before I picked it up, so I assumed everything was what it seemed, as you do. There are a good few twists in this book and I really enjoyed coming to it without much foreknowledge at all.
Great Expectations should be read carefully; don't skim it. If you do, you'll miss the absolutely wonderful humour and turns of phrase that made Dickens the celebrated author that he is. It's so dry and clever, especially near the beginning, but you really have to pay attention to notice. In this respect, it's much more interesting than Oliver Twist, which I occasionally felt had the dullest prose in existence.
"Miss Havisham, up town?" said Joe.
"Is there any Miss Havisham down town?" returned my sister. "She wants this boy to go and play there. And of course he's going. And he had better play there," said my sister, shaking her head at me as an encouragement to be extremely light and sportive, "or I'll work him."
It seems to be a staple of Dickens that his books start out clever and witty, but then slowly meander their way down into drudgery. To be fair, Great Expectations stays interesting for longer and does pick up again when Magwitch pops up. It's the part in the middle where Pip is aimlessly traipsing around London that irks me. Nothing happens, other then a few meetings with his solicitor and a lot of presumptuous whining.
As always, it's the characters that really make this book. Dickens' characters always seem to become icons of literature and that's because of their larger-than-life realism. They practically stare you in the face and jab you on the nose, they're so real. They're never particularly likeable, especially the women but that's hardly a surprise – this isn't my first Dickensian rodeo after all!
I really, really liked Miss Havisham and I was quite surprised when she didn't actually feature all that often. Obviously she's mentioned a good few times, but I'd expected her to have a larger part. She's wonderful though – and very good for me at the time. I was going through a hurtful break-up when I read this, and there's nothing to dissuade you from moping like the thought of turning into Miss Havisham!
It was not in the first moments that I saw all these things, though I
saw more of them in the first moments than might be supposed. But, I
saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been
white long ago, and had lost its luster, and was faded and yellow. I
saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress,
and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of
her sunken eyes. I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded
figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung
loose, had shrunk to skin and bone. Once, I had been taken to see some
ghastly wax-work at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible
personage lying in state. Once, I had been taken to one of our old
marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress, that had
been dug out of a vault under the church pavement. Now wax-work and
skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me. I should
have cried out, if I could.
As you can probably tell from the above, atmosphere is another strong point for Charles Dickens. The mist and tension seem to seep through the pages and into your everyday life, especially in the scenes at Satis House where it feels as though you have just walked into the decay and the rot, not Pip. Again though, that tails off when Pip leaves for London. *headdesk*
My conclusion is that I did like Great Expectations. I liked the beginning a lot more than the end, but the end a whole lot more than the middle. I finished the book slightly depressed, which is an improvement from the desperate urge to jump off a cliff I felt when I finished Oliver Twist. I love the characters and I love the humour… I just wish it were more consistent.

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Flipboard is giving news publishers and other curators on the platform a new way to highlight content through a format called Storyboards.
Until now, Flipboard has largely focused on its Smart Magazines, which are ongoing collections that mix human and algorithmic curation, allowing readers to dive deeply into and keep up-to-date on a given topic.
Storyboards, on the other hand, are more of a one-time collection of articles, videos, podcasts, tweets and other media. Content-wise, they may not be that different from an "everything you need to know about X" roundup article, but they give publishers an easy and visually stylish way to put those roundups together.
Publishers have already been beta testing it. For example, TheGrio created a Storyboard collecting the latest coverage of George Floyd's death and the resulting protests, while National Geographic curated a package of new and old stories commemorating the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. And TechCrunch tried it out by doing daily roundups of coverage coming out of last year's Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
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Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told me this is something curators have been asking for, as a way to "structure their curation better and be able to do better storytelling."
He also said that Storyboards could be a great way to highlight different products and make money with affiliate links, especially since "curated commerce is something that will probably play more and more of a significant role in our revenue."
Vice President of Engineering Troy Brant gave me a quick tour of the product, showing me how a curator can create different sections in a Storyboard, tweak the look of those sections and populate them with different kinds of content.
These new Storyboards can be discovered in Flipboard based on the topics with which the curator tags them. They're also shareable and embeddable via Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and email.
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Brant noted that Storyboards are "complementary" with Flipboard magazines, as magazines can include Storyboards and Storyboards can include magazines. He also said the company is developing "more product capabilities" to highlight the best curation, whether that takes the form of a Storyboard or magazine: "That's actually a work in progress at the moment."
And Storyboards come with detailed analytics about how many people are viewing them, liking them, commenting on them, flipping them and more.
All of this is part of a new tool in Flipboard called Curator Pro, which is now available to all verified users in English-speaking countries, with plans for a more global rollout soon. Brant added that Storyboards are just the "first step" for Curator Pro, with more magazine curation tools and analytics on the way as well.
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Goods & Passenger Operators: revised financial standing levels from 1 Jan 2019
Posted 19/12/2018 : By: Tim Ridyard
The amount of readily accessible amounts required by Standard National and International operator's licence holders has been varied slightly as follows:
- First vehicle: £8,000 (increased from £7,950)
- Additional vehicles: £4,450 (increased from £4,400).
The requirement to have the necessary financial standing is mandatory. A failure to comply with this may lead to serious consequences, not least the revocation of the licence. Where a licence holder is unable to fulfil this criterion it is open to them to apply to the Traffic Commissioner for a 'period of grace' within which to satisfy it The financial standing requirement continues throughout the lifetime of a licence and is not simply applied when the licence is applied for or varied.
The amounts required for Standard licences are reassessed annually on 1 October by reference to the value of the Euro against Sterling. There has been little movement over the last year but the current levels are very much higher than those set for 1 Jan 2016 at £6,650 / £3,700 (i.e. ca 16% lower.) It remains to be seen what will happen from January 2020 when there is a revaluation on 1 October 2019.
In our experience there is a widespread lack of understanding as to the how the financial standing regime operates, placing the licence under threat where funds are not adequate and readily available. By way of example financial resources required for a limited company operator must be held by that entity – funds in directors' personal bank accounts are not regarded as being available to such an operator.
How financial resources are regarded as being 'available' to operators is less than straightforward in many cases. Many operators are unwittingly breaching the requirements.
The amounts required for Restricted licence holders remain unchanged, as they have for many years, at £3,100 for the first vehicle and £1,700. The Senior Traffic Commissioner initially consulted on reviewing the approach to the fixing of these levels in 2018. The outcome has not yet been finally concluded and there is to be further consultation with the sector in 2019.
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It's the 1960s and the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union is at its height. British intelligence officer Harry Palmer discovers that a mad rich American is trying to stir up a rebellion in the Soviet state of Latvia; a plan that could threaten world peace. This was the third film about the cockney agent, but while the others were ultra-realistic for spy films, this is a big adventure with spectacular high-tech sets. Even in this one, though, the hero knows he is a very small player in a big international game.
This film has a couple of uses of mild bad language and contains moderate violence.
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Given bravery medals for his Korean War service, a soldier returns home, but may not be all that he seems, as his platoon questions his heroism.
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Daniel Craig's first film as James Bond takes us back to the beginning of the stories where Bond has to learn his licence to kill.
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The council has unveiled plans to improve pedestrian safety on the approaches to two popular primary schools in Earlsfield.
Work is set to begin shortly to install a new zebra crossing outside Beatrix Potter primary school in Magdalen Road close to the junction with Openview.
The new zebra crossing will be constructed on top of an existing 'raised table' which is designed to reduce vehicle speeds, improve pedestrian access and deter illegal parking.
Raised tables increase visibility for both pedestrians and drivers and also provide step free crossing points for parents with buggies and wheelchair users.
Changes will also be made to the layout of an existing zebra crossing near Tranmere Road, which is well used by parents and children at Earlsfield School. The changes would improve sight lines for drivers and cyclists as they approach the crossing.
The upgrades, which will cost around £22,000 are being made following requests from residents in both Wandsworth Common and Earlsfield wards who want safer crossing facilities for pedestrians in Magdalen Road.
The changes have also been discussed with senior officials at Transport for London, who have been consulted because Magdalen Road forms part of TfL's Quietway 4 – which aims to give cyclists a quieter and safer journey between Clapham Common and Wimbledon.
To further enhance road safety across Wandsworth, a borough-wide 20mph was introduced in all quieter residential streets last summer.
Transport spokesman Cllr Jonathan Cook said: "These measures are designed to make it safer for the children and parents who attend these two primary schools, especially as many walk to and from school each day. Local residents and cyclists will also benefit too from better road safety and slower vehicle speeds in this neighbourhood."


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This week on Photo Finds, we stop by Disney's Hollywood Studios to report on the recent changes within the park, including the closure of the Backlot Studio Tour, as well as the first signs of the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. But first, we bring you a tour of Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando. [Read more…]


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While there's a lot of love floating in the air and about a dozen very recent romance rumors that we can think of as well, the most recent and intriguing one has been of Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello. The two have been sparking romance rumors for a while now and their recent PDA filled brunch spoke no different.
Breaking down the details of what the Paparazzi saw, the two came out of their brunch in West Hollywood, California, and were seen outside holding hands and embracing one another in sweet Sunday comfort hugs. The two were dressed in casual athleisure wear. Camilla had some booty flattering sweat pants on with black sneakers, a low cut tank top, and a navy blue pull over cardigan. Shawn Mendes was seen in navy blue Nike shorts and socks, complemented by a dark hoodie and white sneakers. It looked almost as though the two had coordinated their outfits because they were both sporting the exact same color scheme of dark blue, black, and white sportswear.
This all comes after Camila Cabello was seen at Shawn Mendes' Friday concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Following her attendance, she also took to Instagram to post:
@Shawnmendes you couldn't be more amazing. Wow. [red heart emoji]"
You're unreal. @shawnmendes."
Two outings in a single weekend says quite a lot about how much time the two are spending together. They also spent a lot of time together in shooting their steamy music video for the song Senorita by Shawn Mendes. That song is actually what initially sparked all of their romance rumors. The two seemed to have quite a lot of chemistry on screen and we can now see that they have a lot more in person as well.
That all said, we need to give them some space and not jump to any conclusions because the two do go way back. They've worked on music together before and have also gone on tour back in 2014 (back when Camila Cabello was still a part of Fifth Harmony. Oh yeah. That's some good old sweet nostalgia.)


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In 2012 and 2013, Derek personally funded over $64 Million Dollars in mortgages. Of these loans, 90% of them were turned down by other loan officers and lenders because the loan was deemed "too hard to work or structure". By the age of 31, Derek funded over $150 Million Dollars in business alone, something his father is very proud of.
2016 shaped up to be a very successful year funding 151 loans for just under $32 Million Dollars in volume and found himself to be ranked in the top 1% of producing loan officers nationally out of any Mortgage Company. This year, Derek has already surpassed those milestones and plans to finish 2017 very strong with a record year in closings.
Derek loves a challenge and was born to do this work. He prides himself on his knowledge of the mortgage industry and constantly educating himself with new and updated guidelines to apply towards real life situations in the ever-changing mortgage world.


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Thursday, July 1, 2010 | The indications from BP/ARCO's latest proposed cleanup plan of contaminated soil under a Seal Beach gas station are that the station will be torn down, which makes city officials increasingly hopeful they've found a solution to the 25-year-old pollution problem.
"We're not quite ready to declare victory," said Seal Beach City Manager David Carmany, "but we're feeling pretty good about it at this point."
City staff met Wednesday night with about 60 residents of the nearby neighborhood, where earlier this year people had to temporarily evacuate three homes because of the leak. They filled the Seal Beach library to discuss the technical report that BP/ARCO submitted June 19 as its latest plan for curing the air and water contamination.
The BP/ARCO proposal offers alternative cleanup suggestions, all employing "electric resistance heating" technology, which uses electricity to heat contaminated dirt and groundwater, causing the pollutants to evaporate.
Additional plans include digging up contaminated soil and hauling it to safe disposal sites and then treating the remaining contamination with the electric heating system.
A critical issue, according to government officials and residents, is how much soil will be excavated.
"That's the $64,000 question at this point," said Carmany.
Too little excavation may only result in more contamination problems popping up down the road.
Carmany said it appears that BP/ARCO will have to tear down the gas station to dig out the soil.
The company is offering three excavation plans, and none call for excavating beyond the boundaries of the gas station property.
But Mario Iacoboni, a member of a volunteer environmental panel advising residents and city officials on the cleanup, said it's important to determine the true boundaries of the contamination, even if it has spread outside the gas station grounds, so that the cleanup truly is effective.
"In other words," he said, "their (BP/ARCO) plans do not call for chasing the contamination" to find out where it ends.
In addition, he said, another question to be answered is whether the electric heating is really an effective cleanup tool for this project.
Iacoboni said the electric heating is a "relatively new" cleanup technology, and he and others are concerned that it hasn't been used on enough gasoline leaks in other areas to prove that it will offer a permanent solution to the Seal Beach problem.
Residents have been picketing the ARCO station for several months to call attention to the 25-year effort to remove contamination from the neighborhood. They plan to picket again Saturday morning but, because they are feeling more encouraged by the BP/ARCO cleanup proposal, the message to cars passing the picket lines may be "semi-positive," said Iacoboni.
The City Council will discuss the latest plan at its July 12 meeting.
Three homes were temporarily evacuated when local officials last year discovered fumes from the polluted soil were making their way into houses behind the gas station.
A variety of mitigation efforts to contain the pollutants and protect residents and underground water have been tried over the past three decades.
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President's Message
For 30 years, BCNET has evolved, grown and reached countless milestones. Throughout our history and evolution, three constants have helped ensure our success: our engaged member community, our external stakeholders and our dedicated staff.
First, and foremost, our members have been tightly woven into the very fabric and success of our organization since its genesis. They are engaged in identifying new opportunities, designing and developing solutions, and in some instances, delivering solutions. From our early days as an internet service provider, to today's service and governance committees, our members' collaborative efforts have ensured that we provide exceptional value to all our members.
A second constant, our external stakeholders, partner with us behind the scenes. They trust BCNET to represent our members' interests fairly and accurately, and include partners like CANARIE, the Ministry of Advanced Education Skills and Training, the Research University Council of British Columbia, BC Association of Institutes + Universities, BC Colleges, BCcampus, as well as our industry partners and many other public entities. Our stakeholders collaborate with us to offer technology solutions, generously sponsor our events and guide our efforts in representing the sector.
Last, and most important, our success would not be possible without our dedicated staff. It's our group of highly engaged and committed employees who share their expertise, facilitate collaboration and work with our members to advance their strategic mandates. I'm honoured to have the opportunity to work with them.
Since launching the first shared services in 2010, we have grown our portfolio to offer an exceptional and unparalleled range of solutions and services in Procurement, Shared Systems and Technology, and Professional Development and Training. We have come a long way from our early days as an education and research network—and we should all be proud of what we have achieved together.
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"We set up an alfresco kitchen beneath a tarp. I had our camping stove and a propane catchbasin with aloof two burners. I fabricated commons like that for us for about a year. It was terrible, but now it's account it," says Joanna of what she went through to accomplish her dream kitchen.
One year afterwards Jojotastic blogger and Pinterest avant-garde Joanna Hawley-McBride's admired grandfathering anesthetized away, she begin out he had larboard her article special. He had set abreast money for the bottomward acquittal on a house. With the gift, he larboard specific instructions for Joanna to achieve down—so she did.
Rather than alive on the bound of the burghal in a multibedroom home on her own, Joanna prioritized location. In the absorbing Ballard adjacency of Seattle, she autonomous for a 640-square-foot bungalow that dates aback to the aboriginal 20th century. This meant cedar shiplap walls galore. Over the accomplished four years, Joanna and her now bedmate accept gradually adapted the space.
To accouterment the kitchen, Joanna alleged in reinforcements. While she has a architecture accomplishments that includes artistic roles at Nordstrom and Anthropologie, Joanna capital to coact with a able autogenous designer. She teamed up with adolescent blogger Sarah Gibson to advice her accomplish big, big-ticket decisions and validate the functionality of her choices. Though this affiliation was smooth, Joanna did face problems with her aboriginal contractor, banishment her to acquisition addition one midrenovation. Despite this demanding complication, Joanna concluded up with a acutely claimed and luxuriously applied kitchen. Here's how she did it.
Lucy the accomplished basset lounges on Joanna's best rug and admired H-shaped tiles that are a nod to her backward grandfathering Harvey.
Kitchen location: In the celebrated beach adjacency of Ballard, Joanna's kitchen is the focal point of her one-bedroom bungalow, congenital in 1908.
The before: "The kitchen was super-dark," Joanna explains. "There acclimated to be a wall, so you had to go through a aperture to get in. It was like a cave. The refrigerator aloof afraid out in the corner, and the oven was far abroad from everything. There was no adverse amplitude abreast the stove, so I couldn't put annihilation down. It was super-inconvenient back I was cooking. It was anachronous and ugly. The counters were tile, and there was no dishwasher."
The inspiration: Joanna admired a activity Sarah had ahead completed alleged the cape kitchen, so she had to accept one of her own. The archetypal aggregate of atramentous and white abreast the room's design.
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Square footage: 120 aboveboard feet
Budget: "With what I do for work, I get a lot of being able to me. Most of the abstracts in the kitchen were accustomed to me," Joanna explains. In return, she provides artefact adjustment on her blog, photography, and amusing media mentions. Joanna paid for activity and structural abstracts herself and approaching $30,000 for that.
Dark and bankrupt off, Joanna's aboriginal kitchen featured asphalt countertops and linoleum floors.
White marble backsplash and atramentous stainless animate accessories appear calm to actualize Joanna's adapted "tuxedo" look.
Floors: Fireclay Asphalt Slate Blue Chaine Homme. "Blue is my admired color," Joanna says. "We pulled that in with the attic tile, which is absolutely super-special. The tiles are H-shaped. I did it as a attenuate admiration to my grandfather, whose name was Harvey. Every distinct asphalt is handmade in California."
Counters and Backsplash: Polycor White Cherokee Georgia Marble. "It's a acid accomplishment because I didn't appetite it to be super-shiny," Joanna explains. "I capital the countertops to age and feel about Parisian area they appearance signs of use."
Cabinets: Masterbrand Diamond Cabinets Sumner Shaker-Style Doors. "They're accepted for accepting the best authoritative accessories aural the cabinets. They accept amazing inserts that advice aerate space," Joanna says of the solid maple lacquered cabinets.
Hardware: Rejuvenation Upton Age-old Assumption Drawer Pulls. "I absolutely like big hardware. It's affectionate of like jewelry; I like big jewelry," Joanna admits.
Paint: Sherwin-Williams Pure White
Sink: Sinkology Bradstreet II Fireclay Farmhouse Sink. "It's a kitchen bathtub. It's huge. We accept two dachshunds, so it's abundant for bathing them, which is basically why we chose the admeasurement that we did," says Joanna.
Faucet and Pot Filler: Delta Trinsic Distinct Handle Pull-Down Kitchen Faucet and Delta Contemporary Bank Mount Pot Filler. "I adulation matte black, so it was absolutely accessible for us to accomplish that decision. Sarah appropriate bond brownish and matte finishes, so we acclimated both age-old assumption and matte atramentous throughout."
Appliances: KitchenAid Atramentous Stainless Animate Refrigerator, Smart Oven, Burner Gas Cooktop with Griddle, Canopy Hood, and Dishwasher "The battercake is affectionate of life-changing. I adulation authoritative pancakes on it so much. And accepting gas is so huge. I don't anticipate I've anytime adapted as abundant as I do now," Joanna says.
Lighting: Rejuvenation Haleigh Oil-Rubbed Bronze Dome Pendant and Lamps Plus Hudson Valley Rye 11″ Wide Age-old Assumption Ceiling Light
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How do staff internalize Jeremiah values? A recent team-building exercise focused on uncovering the beliefs we have about each word and a discussion about how each value makes us believe, feel, think and do. It was an opportunity to think about the values and also to get insight into team members.
Innovation is a value Danyelle Antone from Boston is particularly excited about.
"Innovation is what attracted me to Boston in the first place," she said. "It's a new model and I appreciated Emilia (Executive Director) giving me the autonomy to create community and find new ways to look at how we do program."
The family-focused value struck a chord with Danyelle as well.
"It was a nice reminder that our entire work culture is family-focused, not just for the families we serve. It includes families of staff and paying attention to work-life balance."
Gaining insight into team members is another benefit. Valerie Eubert from Austin enjoyed the opportunity to gain understanding.
"Everyone has such diverse perspectives," she said. "And it was interesting to see how individual roles within a team or the overall organization also impacted what teammates believe, feel, think and do."
Valerie's most important takeaway?
"There was a lot of energy in the exercise with contributions from the entire team. It was inspiring to have everyone fully engaged in fleshing out the organizational values."
Here are just a sample of some insights from other team members:
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. . .my inner warrior rising. …trusted. …like I have possibilities.
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I provide others with opportunities and motivation. I hold people accountable and responsible for outcomes. I have confidence in the collective.
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. . . that preconceived notions can influence the collaboration; they need to be put to the side. …that I have inherent biases. …that I have to seek to understand the people that I'm working with. …that the needs of the group may outweigh the needs of the individuals within the group.
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I ask for participation and opinions. I clearly communicate roles. I invite feedback. I communicate the why. I listen. I ask smart questions. I thank people for their contributions.
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. . . about uniqueness and differences. …that everyone brings their own experience. …that because families are these unique microcosms, . . .it's important to understand how families influence individuals.
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I treat my team with the respect that I do with my family. I allow myself and colleagues to put their families first. I plan family events. I ask people about their family.
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I despise the 8,000 pound Philadelphia gorilla known as Comcast.
I signed up for DirecTV and the guy is coming to install it today.
But picture this: On my HBO Channel, a crawl runs across the bottom of my screen with the following message:
ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART to continue to receive HBO. As of March 28, you will no longer be able to view HBO without a digital cable box. Please contact Comcast at 1-800-COMCAST to get a digital cable box.
This message—in very large type—runs continually 24/7 during the programming and totally destroys the viewing experience.
I called 1-800-COMCAST to see what would happen and got the de rigueur recorded female voice:
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For English, Press 1
Por Espanol gibberish gibberish
For trouble with your service, press 1
For billing inquiries, press 2
To add or upgrade your current service, press 3
Transfer, downgrade or discontinue service, press 4
Nothing on this recorded menu dealt with HBO or new cable boxes. I pressed nothing. The message was repeated, and again I pressed nothing. The recorded voice came on and said, "For quality and training purposes, your call may be monitored."
This was followed by commercials for HDTV, digital voice and an invitation to "Visit us at www.Comcast.net."
When the telephone rep came on the line, she told me that all premium channels would be going to digital and that three new digital cable boxes would cost $1 each. This would take our monthly bill up to $140 a month, or $1,680 a year, for roughly 75 channels and high-speed Internet access.
DirecTV is 185 channels for $59.95 a month.
Comcast's rude crawl over the HBO channel and exorbitant pricing are deal killers.
The Goofball Sales Rep From Verizon
When the Verizon FSI—with its offer of high-speed Internet for $21.99/month—arrived in my morning Inquirer, I took it up to the office and saved it. Since I was dropping Comcast cable in favor of DirecTV, why not switch to Verizon for Internet service and save another $23.
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Teaching Teens About Credit
When I was growing up, I never had any instruction on how to handle my finances. I was on the learn as you go method; so I was determined to change that with my daughters. They all have a bank account. The older ones have a checking account with a Visa debit card that they can use when they are out with their friends or away at camp. I have tried to teach them how to budget their money and check their balances, and balance their checkbooks. With two of them getting ready to go to college, I talk to them about the temptations of credit cards which are practically given away to college students.
I got in trouble early on with my credit card. After all, who wouldn't be tempted? Hey, I figured, I can afford the $15 a month payment! No one told me that was just the minimum payment required. Nobody told me how fast your balance can go up when you're buying what you want at the department store and eating out all the time. No one told me that you should have a job so you can pay off your credit card balance.
The credit card pit is one fall I can keep my daughters from so we're starting early. I'm also glad to find out that some of the lessons are sinking in and that they are relating it to what they're learning in school too. My daughter wrote the following:
This year as a high school sophomore I took a required course called "Civics and Economics." The course studies civics for the first part of the semester, studying basic American history and government as well as the foreign influences of such. The second part of the semester studies economics. Overall the class educated us on the basics of living in America, things many people may surprisingly be ignorant to. Things we learned were at times simple facts, "the vice president succeeds the president in case of death, and the speaker of the house may succeed him." Other things had to be memorized in order to pass the tests and understand our laws, "the supreme court case Korematsu v. United States gives the US government permission to withdraw certain constitutional rights and even force its citizens into internment camps in cases of national security." Other things were slightly more complex, or required more teaching. One question I had answered, that I was glad we did for I had been wondering about it for sometime, was "what is a credit report or a credit score?
A credit score is a rank that is assigned to each person based on their credit history and is used by creditors to determine a person's credit worthiness. They look at how you paid back your previous loans. Did you pay them on time, how many credit cards do you have and is the total amount of what you owe in a good ratio to the amount of money you earn?
Federal law states that everyone is entitled to a free credit report every 12 months. You can even get a credit rating online. A credit report tells the history of your previous loans, credit card payments etc. A credit score is used mainly by lenders such as banks in order to find potential risks in lending to certain consumers. People starting out with no credit history should start to build a strong one by using a student credit card of some sort and paying the bills on time and in full. Learn more about credit reports and credit scores. It is often found to be important down the road when one looks to take out a loan of some sort.


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Kubica: No F1 return regrets despite Williams struggles
Robert Kubica says he has absolutely no regrets about returning to Formula 1, despite the competitive struggles that his Williams team is facing.
Williams has endured a tough start to the year, with its new FW42 having been finished late and by far the slowest car on the grid.
But although Kubica wants more than to just be a backmarker in F1, he says the personal satisfaction of having returned to grand prix racing from injury and the fun he gets from driving outweigh the negatives of his current situation.
Asked by Motorsport.com if he had had any regrets, Kubica said: "No - because in the end I took the decision after thinking for more than six weeks last year.
"I knew it would be an extremely difficult challenge for me to be back in such a competitive sport and being on the grid, and I knew it might be difficult for Williams. But I didn't expect to come to Australia so unprepared.
"[That's] not from a physical point of view but from a lack of driving. For me, before testing, Barcelona would be the most important days of the last eight years as a driver, although not as a person when I was half in hospital and couldn't walk!
"As a driver, there haven't been in my life more important test days from the driver point of view as Barcelona. Unfortunately Barcelona didn't work out at all. So it put me into the difficult position, but somehow I have to go through them here, in Bahrain, and probably for a couple more races.
"But I hope and, from what I can see, I think I cannot regret. Even if I struggled here [in Australia], I still enjoyed it, which is a big difference compared to long time ago. A big difference!
"It is probably because I know where I am coming from. I am not an emotional guy but in the end after the race, for me, it felt like a great achievement."
Having come through a race weekend that doubters suggested he may struggle at, Kubica says he will probably never be able to silence totally the questions marks that surround him after the arm injury he suffered in a rally crash in 2011.
However, he is clear that he came back to F1 because he would never have forgiven himself if he had turned down the chance to take an easy life.
"In the end because of my limitation, I have to show always more than the others because people are putting always question mark doubts," he said.
"The only thing I can do is try to do my job the best I can, and try to leave all the grands prix with positives and negatives. I don't believe that there can be 100% positive things. You can always do better things. Even if you are winning races, you can always improve.
"Knowing how F1 has changed, I think I am honest enough with myself to judge properly and correctly what I have to learn, where I have to learn and where I have to improve.
"I think only this approach brought me back to F1 and actually to keep fighting.
"Otherwise for me it would have been much easier six years ago to accept opportunities I have in GT3 or DTM, enjoy, have even less stress, and probably have more fun with driving because I will be probably fighting definitely for better positions.
"But somehow there is a reason why I am here. And it might be that at the end of the year I will regret something, but one thing I will not regret is to try. Very simple."
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"If food waste were a country, it would come in third after the United States and China in terms of global warming" (Frischmann, 2018). It is no secret to anyone that food waste, especially in the U.S., is a major problem. Every year, $210 billion is spent on food that is never eaten, amounting to 52 million tons sent to landfills annually. Another 10 million tons are discarded or left unharvested on farms. Yet, one in eight Americans (estimated 49 million) are food insecure.
Food waste not only has social and economic implications, but also environmental. As 40% of food in the United States goes uneaten and sent to landfills, it contributes to 8% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. When the food rots in the landfill, it starts to release a chemical known as methane that is known to be "25 times more powerful than CO2" (Vogliano and Brown, 10). Only about 3% of the food in the U.S. is actually composted.
But food waste is not generic. Companies, consumers and countries contribute to food waste in different forms. In developing countries, for example, most food waste occurs before even reaching the market. Some reasons include inefficiency in transportation, equipment, packaging and storing the food. On the other hand, developed countries contribute in a larger extent to food waste once it has reached the consumer level. Big contributors are businesses such as grocery stores, institutions, catering departments and restaurants. Grocery stores specifically generate an absurd amount due to "cosmetic imperfections, expiration dates, damaged items and food returns" (Otten, 4). Other sectors such as restaurants generate due to "food trimmings, planned overproduction, spoilage and food served that customers do not eat" (Otten, 4).
According to the National Resource Defense Council, "if we are able to just rescue 15% of the food waste in the U.S., we could save enough to feed 25 million citizens" (Move For Hunger). Surprisingly, consumers waste the most food compared to supermarkets and other businesses. 43% of the food waste occurs at home, equaling a loss of about $1,300-$2,200 for a family of four every year (Move For Hunger). Moreover, wasting food affects the environment not just from the gases that are released but also from the unnecessary excessive use of resources – 21% of fresh water, 18% of cropland, and 19% of fertilizer used to produce the food wasted.
As a community, we need to start working together to reduce the amount of food waste sent to landfills. Because solutions vary from corporations to restaurants to consumers, we've provided a general view of what solutions can be implemented in order to tackle this issue.
For Businesses (grocery stores, catering departments, corporations, restaurants, organizations):
- Improve data on food loss to estimate how much is being thrown away and how much should be bought
- More accurate forecast demands based on consumer purchases to only bulk those items who sell the most
- Connect with organizations that provide surplus food to local shelters, after-school programs and other non-profit organizations.
- If you are part of a company that caters often, partner with a catering service, like FoodtoEat, that knows how to portion correctly.
- Educate consumers on what the difference is between "use by" and "sell by" dates, on how to decrease food waste with more efficient storing methods and on how to better reduce, recover and recycle.
- Invest in new technologies that can lengthen shelf life of fresh meat/poultry/fish, can delay the ripening of fruits and vegetables during shipping and storage, and monitor food waste in large communal kitchens to reduce costs.
- Find creative ways to sell or avoid wasting food that has been mislabeled, bruised or overproduced.
For Consumers:
- Move older food products to the front of the fridge so you remember to eat them!
- Take your restaurant leftovers with you and refrigerate them. That way, you don't have to spend money on your next lunch at work.
- This is going to sound weird, but check your garbage. Not to pick the leftovers, but to know what food you are tossing regularly so you buy less of it.
- Compost excess food if you have a terrace or lawn. This will enrich your soil and help decrease greenhouse gasses.
- Meal prep! By knowing what you have in your fridge, you know what you are missing in order to buy.
- Most importantly, embrace the so-called "ugly" fruits and vegetables! They have exactly the same minerals, vitamins and nutrients as those more pleasing to the eye. This is BY FAR one of the biggest issues with major grocery chains.
- Freeze! Freezing food is the best method to not let it rot. For example, those leafy greens that seem to soft for your salad are perfect to be put in the freezer for smoothies.
Food waste is a big challenge, but there are already numerous companies investing in technology to combat this battle as well as individuals taking action. Addressing this problem is beneficial for our communities, our bank accounts, our health, our soil, and individuals with very few resources.
While we need all possible solutions to be implemented in parallel, our daily decisions on how we produce, consume, and purchase is the most important contribution. We, the consumers, are the most significant cause of food waste (Robbins, 2018) since our way of thinking triggers companies' actions. For example, if we demand more "ugly" products in our supermarkets, these chains will start promoting more and wasting less of them.
That being said, individuals being the main cause of food waste can be seen in a positive light. If we want to improve the ecosystem that surrounds us, we can change our decision making process to make businesses and organizations act quicker and smarter. In fact, we can all start today…
Gunders D. Wasted: How America is losing up to 40 percent of its food from farm to fork to landfill. Natural Resources Defense Council website. http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-ip.pdf. Published August 2012.
The Economist. Watching fruit rot. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21641262-ifdockworkers-union-blocks-west-coast-ports-shippers-will-find-others-watching-fruit. Published January 31, 2015.
The Healthline. 20 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Food Waste. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/reduce-food-waste. Published November 20, 2017. Kubala, Jillian.
Vogliano, C. and Brown, K. 2016. The State of America's Wasted Food and Opportunities to Make A Difference. https://eatrightfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-State-of-Americas-Food-Waste-Report.pdf.
Frischmann, Chad. "The Climate Impact of the Food in the Back of Your Fridge." The Washington Post, WP Company. 31 July 2018. beta.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/07/31/food-waste/?noredirect=on.
Otten, Jennifer. Food Waste Prevention and Recovery Assessment Report. 2016. https://depts.washington.edu/uwcphn/reports/SeattleFoodWasteReport.PDF
Move For Hunger. About Food Waste. http://www.moveforhunger.org/about-food-waste.


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Heading off recently to a small fishing village in Mexico for some quiet R&R with some good fiction and Jeremy Scahill's Dirty Wars in the backpack was mostly a good thing. No television, internet, no crowds, just surf, sun and breezes.
I say mostly, because Dirty Wars was a troubling read. I have been compelled again to investigate and ponder more thoughtfully issues of war and peace when I joined the board of our local Peace Education Center. More recently as I've become co-chair of the PEC, I feel a responsibility to better inform myself of the complexities of global conflicts and the violence that surrounds them. Scahill'saward winning journalism (two prestigious George Polk awards among others) deluges the reader with the forces driving U.S. military and paramilitary actions.
I'll spare you the details, but my immediate reaction (I'm not quite halfway through the 500+ pages) was how can Rumsfeld, Cheney and others not be forced to face prosecution for what they unleashed and to what Obama and his team have continued,under the cover of the War on Terror. Scahill's book is not a simple read. He relies extensively on interviews with members and past members of the military, intelligence, and political arenas. (I would relish a visual picture of the relationships of all the players he consults in pulling this together). There are some places where the evidence seems clear cut and others where he sees it as murky, if not indiscernible.
One area that Scahill emphasizes from the beginning is Rumsfeld's desire to consolidate more control over intelligence and special operations into the hands of the Defense department. This coincided with a further weakening (in part through budget re-allocations) of State Department efforts and diplomacy in general. In a more recently published book, Mission Creep: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy, Gordon Adams, a national security scholar, notes even concerns among the military with this approach:
In 2012, ore than 80 retired senior military leaders sent a letter to Congress asking them not to cut the International Affairs budget that provides resources to civilian diplomacy and development agencies. In 2013, twenty retired three- and four-star generals admirals went to Congress to petition for an increase in the International Affairs budget. Gen. James martin, then commander of US Central Commad, is reported to have said, "If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition." [p.19, note 1]
As I return to frigid temperatures and a deep blanket of white I was assaulted with the announcement that Obama's budget calls for another significant increase in defense spending – a 7% increase on the base military budget – even as we have ended (?) the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the current issue of The Atlantic James Fallows writes in "The Tragedy of the American Military",
"By the fullest accounting, which is different from usual budget figures, the United Stated will spend more than $1 trillion on national security this year. That includes about $580 billion for the Pentagon's baseline budget plus "overseas contingency" funds, $20 billion in the Department of Energy budget for nuclear weapons, nearly $200 billion for military pensions and Department of Veterans Affairs costs and other expenses. But it doesn't count the $80 billion a year of interest on the military related national debt. After adjustments for inflation, the United States will spend about 50 percent more on the military this year than its average through the Cold War and Vietnam War. It will spend as much as the next 10 nations combined – three to five times as much as China, depending upon how you count, and seven to nine times as much as Russia. The world as whole spends about 2 percent of its total income on its militaries; the United States, about 4 percent." [ January/February 2015, p.80]
Top this off with a February 1, 2015 piece by retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William Astore, "War is the New Normal" in which he revisits the "seven reasons why never-ending war is the new normal in America." Once again, this is the military voice speaking, not some chicken hawks like Rumsfeld and Cheney. Read it and get angry!
Seems like President Eisenhower's departing warning has come true –
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. [It is useful to read the entire farewell speechhere.]
A day after returning from surf and sun my path came across a potentially powerful tonic to the endless war and violence that Scahill, Fallows, Adams, and the President have made more visible.
A new tome by Randall Amster, JD, PhD and director of the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown has just penned a book I was hoping to write myself, Peace Ecology. I've just scoured the 20 page introduction and believe I have found another soul interested in the links between peace and ecology. Amster is eager to make visible connections that we often miss. Whether he leaves me off the hook to write a tome on the same topic remains to be seen. But his introduction framed by a few quotations worth sharing give me a serious doze of hope.
"War is a social, economic and ecological disaster. It is totally unsustainable and must be opposed by all who are concerned about meeting the real needs of all people and future generations. The effect of war is most immediate for those who are killed or maimed or made homeless, but the social and ecological consequences reverberate for generations. Among the children who survive, we still don't know the full extent of the psychic damage they have suffered or the degree to which their problems are transmitted to successive generations. War is the ultimate atrocity that dehumanizes victor and vanquished alike; divorcing children from parents, separating families, smashing communities, it deprives its victims of their basic need for love and security in the company of their fellow beings." [David Suzuki, quoted on page 4].
For so many reasons it's long past time to stop the arms race that we run assuming its winnable. Clearly we should have learned by now that it sows perpetual war. We can begin by controlling the expenditures for war and arms. A recent Nation article notes the Obama administration's interest in upgrading our nuclear arsenal, which one "one federal study estimated the cost of this enterprise at $1 trillion." Is there anyone sane enough to think that this money would buy more security if invested in providing access to clean water and energy for the world's disenfranchised?
Apathy is consent!
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Posted 09/05/2019 by Jennifer Marshall
On Tuesday we got our "halfway through chemo" report. The Dr. showed us the before and now PET scans and happily reported significant improvement. Yea! Some of the areas are completely resolved while some still have a bit to go. But all in all, a great report! I still have two more treatments and my immune system is in really bad shape, but I'm plugging along. (personal bubble space is now doubled in size...lol). I will hopefully be strong enough to go back to work second semester. Short Story of how I almost got kicked out of a GOP meeting. I managed to make it out to a "town hall" for our NC State Treasurer, Dale Folwell last month. You see, Dale has been messing with the state employee healthcare plan with his clear pricing plan. It was bunk, and the vast majority of the hospitals (including mine) and providers refused to sign on so there was a standoff. Articles were written and insults hurled. This is my and my family's healthcare so, when I saw Dale was going to do a town hall (so to speak), I wasn't going to miss it even if it was sponsored by the Surry County GOP. I rode up with Rhonda Mays, because it was just a few days after my 3rd treatment and I was in no shape to drive. Well, Dale did his best to spin the whole healthcare issue for the room. He explained that purchasing medical services should be as clear as buying potato chips from the grocery store. That you should know what you can afford before you check out. Hmmmmm, ok. When it was time for questions, I waited my turn. I politely explained that I appreciated his attempt to make the costs transparent, but that I felt that the chip analogy he used was just not comparable. I am ok with buying store brand or even off-brand potato chips, I am not ok with buying the cheapest medical care, This is my life and I am not willing to negotiate on my care. At some point in my retort to Mr. Folwell, the gentleman running the meeting got up and scolded me, telling me that I needed to be respectful. I shot back that I was being respectful. Then he threatened to have me removed, if needed, by force from the meeting. Mind you, I was still sitting in my seat this whole time and never raised my voice. I just stared at him and said "go ahead". It came out with a tone and a look that few people have experienced, but my children and a few students can attest to its effectiveness. He didn't say another word, turned and sat down. I resumed my comments to Dale and wrapped it up shortly thereafter, but he got my point loud and clear. I'm not looking for bargain brand medical care and neither should anyone else. Oh, and Dale kicked the clear pricing plan can down the road for another year. Victory!
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It just happens that a quirk in the schedule has given me a stretch of inactivity until the middle of next week.
Today is a scheduled day off, tomorrow a paid day off for perfect attendance and scheduled days off on Tuesday and Wednesday adds up to a mini vacation. Sweet! Rain curtailed play yesterday and only three guests showed. Otherwise, it would have been five in a row and not four.
When I come back it'll be a different story. We're in for a big week. The Slavic Invitational returns for their annual visit.
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Sunshine smoothie is located a few blocks from Ocean Beach and next to the Ocean Beach Athletic Park making it convenient for sports players, skateboarders and beach goers. Located on a major bike artery that connects to the larger Ocean Beach Bike trail the store gets a lot of foot and cycle traffic. Selling coffee and smoothies it offers more than convenience to those who engage in park activities.
Their smoothies are organic and sell for $8 per 24 oz. You can find some interesting blended options such as kale, spinach, carrots, romaine, and ginger along with some traditional varieties such as granny apple and acia. The list of options is extensive. Of course you can also grab an espresso or a soda if you're a little more conventional.
Convenience store success is location based. There are approximately 146,000 convenience stores in the country with 117,000 of them selling fuel (Bainbridge, 2012). Convenience stores must be highly visible, easily accessible, and in a strong location. Without consistent traffic flow such stores can easily go out of business.
Sunshine smoothies has a strong location that is not only visible to significant street traffic driving or biking to the beach but also people watching or playing sports. Smoothies and cold beverages appear to be a near perfect product for those who are suffering from thirst on a hot day. Most purchases are likely to be small and such stores rely on a high volume of small purchases to be lucrative.
Running a successful small business is about knowing your market and reaching that market in the most effective manner. Convenience stores are unlikely to generate significant online traffic or have radically different products. However, they do charge a premium based on their core concept-convenience. For Sunshine smoothie their location is their greatest asset.
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Soju is the best known liquor from Korea. It is distilled, vodka-like, rice liquor with high potency and often flavored similarly. It is smooth and clean in taste, which makes it easy to drink in combination with various Korean dishes. The main ingredient of soju is rice, almost always in combination with other ingredients such as wheat, barley, or sweet potatoes. Soju is clear-colored and typically varies in alcohol content from 10% to 25% proof. It was first known to have been distilled around 1300 A.D.
Soju is the Korean equivalent of the Japanese sake. That said, Jinro is known to be the largest manufacturer of soju which recorded a sale of 70 million cases in 2004. And during that year, more than 3 billion bottles were consumed alone in South Korea!
Because of its ready availability and its low price relative to other alcoholic beverages, soju has become one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in both Korea and Asian restaurants & bars offseas. Flavored sojus such as lemon, watermelon and apple are known to be popular.
Years ago, when Korea was primarily an agrarian society, farmers would break their toil with a bowl of the cloudy rice wine makgeolli (막걸리). This historic association is why the beverage is also known as nongju, with "nong" meaning farmer in Korean. As Korea has urbanized, however, today makgeolli is also popular among young and stylish customers in Seoul or Busan's most cosmopolitan districts. Served along tasty cuts of pork belly or fried onion pancakes, Korea's oldest traditional liquor has made a comeback
Also called "takju," after its cloudy appearance, makgeolli is made by steaming glutinous rice, barley or wheat with water and the fermentation starter, nuruk. Unlike other traditional clear liquors like soju or cheongju, makgeolli isn't distilled after fermentation, hence its milky, opaque appearance. Frequently enjoyed from a humble ceramic bowl, makgeolli's low alcohol content – typically in the six to seven percent range – makes it a popular alternative to higher-proof spirits.


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Fitness can be an exciting thing. In terms of taking better care of yourself and sculpting your body so that you can live a happier and healthier life is truly an exciting thing. To start learning some basics as to how to make this work for you, refer to the tips below.
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Adopt a positive mental attitude. Much is made of the physical workouts and the fitness program you follow, but if your head isn't there, the rest of you won't be. A good fitness program starts and ends in the mind, so if you want a strong, lean body make sure that your mental attitude is there first.
You should always work out with a partner. This is because they will give you motivation to actually go to the gym regularly. It is also important to bring them because they will spot you on things like a bench press so you do not end up hurting yourself.
Challenge yourself. Increase the amount of exercise that you do every day or every other day. You will eventually hit a plateau in your exercise routine and not be doing yourself any good when you get used to what you do normally. They always say 'no pain, no gain'.
One should consider what they want to get from a gym before they pay for a membership. If one likes swimming then they should look for a gym with a pool. If one likes to run then they should look for a gym with a running track. Such important things can make big differences to how satisfied one is with their gym and actually go there to work on their fitness.
You should keep track of all of the calories you're consuming on a daily basis. It's one thing to work out to get into shape, but monitoring your diet also takes a toll in how fast you get fit. You have to work hard at getting into shape by exercising both your body and regulating your eating habits.
So, now do you see why fitness is such an exciting thing? Discovering your own fitness plan and working upon it to make yourself stronger, leaner, and healthier is definitely exciting. The tips above should have created a good foundation for you to build upon and find your own fitness routine.