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Manual argument type with MathLink C interface
When using the MathLink C interface, if we want to get arguments
manually, we need to put the following in the template (.tm) file:
:ArgumentTypes: { Manual }
:ReturnType: Manual
Note the braces around {Manual}. I accidentally used
:ArgumentTypes: Manual
:ReturnType: Manual
mprep does 'compile' this template file without errors, and generates
valid C code for it, but it doesn't have the same behaviour as the
standard :ArgumentTypes: {Manual} specification.
Diffing the outputs shows only one difference: the f_nargs member of
the "func" struct is set to -1 for this function with :ArgumentTypes:
Manual, while with {Manual} it is 0.
Question: Is :ArgumentTypes: Manual meaningful, and if yes, what is
its use? Is there going to be anything meaningful on the link that I
can MLGet, and if yes, what?
Admittedly, this is mostly of theoretical interest for me. I was just
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"Artel, in Russian, means an association of artisans living and working together. We brainstormed a whole list of names but I really felt that this summed up what we were about. We're all artists, we're all independent but we're also a family. We're a team, we all learn together and we're under one roof," says Eliza Trendiak proudly, glancing about her sun-soaked empire. The Blanche Macdonald Pro Hair graduate ushers us about the polished concrete and vaulting space surrounding, giving us the grand tour of her newly opened Artel Salon.
Plump succulents scatter about countertops and pastel-packaged product blooms from the walls. The rustic salvaged wood coffee table (hand-crafted by a friend) jostles warmly with rich textiles, coaxing you to plunk down on the couch and make snug with a magazine. Nestled into the niche hubbub of Fraser Street for only a few months now, Artel has already become the neighborhood's favourite hair haunt-meets-hang out, with a constant flow of clients chattering through the door.
Eliza is a natural Entrepreneur, but then again, she's been self-starting since before she can remember.
"My family has always made fun of me, saying that I came out of the womb trying to start a business. As a kid I did lemonade stands, dog walking, sold cucumbers on the side of the road... you name it and was trying to start a business with it," laughs Eliza.
It was no surprise to her parents then when Eliza declared that she was leaving her native New Hamburg, Ontario to go to the School of Business at Trinity Western University in BC. What did come as a surprise to Eliza was that she wasn't 100% satisfied with the path that now lay at her feet.
"I didn't want to end up working in an office. At the time I was doing my dormmates' hair and I just loved it. A friend told me that I should do what I wanted to do because I was going to be waking up and doing it every day. I took that to heart, so I graduated university and went straight to Blanche Macdonald.
"My sister and one of my best friends went to BMC for Fashion Marketing and the quality of their work attracted me to this school from the get-go. Blanche has one of the longer Hair programs in Vancouver, twelve months as opposed to six months; I felt that if I was going to invest in my education, I wanted to spend the most time I could learning. And I loved that Blanche Macdonald had a Business program built into it, as well as Makeup and Hair for TV & Film; you could really get a taste of everything. I wanted to come out of school feeling prepared. Blanche just seemed to be the right fit."
It was. Eliza took to the program like a curl to heat.
"My group was awesome! We prided ourselves on being loved by the instructors. There was a lot of bonding through the intense practical exams and I still keep in contact with some of the girls from my program. I went into hair school like, 'Oh, I've done an undergrad, this is going to be easy,' but I'd be out in the hallways with the rest of them afterwards just exclaiming about how intense it was! It was a really great experience."
It was during the Pro Hair's Work Experience program that Eliza was introduced to Style Lab Headquarters, and by the time her internship had come to an end, they were already at a loss with what they'd do without her. They hired her on to their roster of independent stylists, and the four years she would go on to work there would inform the trajectory of her career.
"I love the idea of being independent and working for myself, but also within an environment of like-minded people that I could learn from. When I was thinking of opening a salon, I thought about getting a small studio by myself, but that didn't appeal to me. I've always learned so much from working with other people. Style Lab totally opened my eyes to that and I feel really blessed to have only ever worked in chair rental salons. I run the structure here at Artel very similarly.
"One of the coolest things about being a chair rental stylist is that my clients have always had a direct connection to me – they'll call me or text me on my cell, whether it's to book an appointment or to joke back and forth about ridiculous hair photos. There's never been a middle man. That that makes it really personal. It's crazy – I actually still have some clients that first started coming to see me at the Blanche Macdonald salon. They have followed me all these years, from being a student dreaming of opening a salon to working at Style Lab and Beaute Salon to now opening my own salon in reality. I really feel that these clients have made the journey with me."
Even with an appointment book brimming with eager salon clientele, Eliza still found the time to take on a side project; she and her lens-wielding power-couple-other are the team behind one-stop-shop personal photography collective Trendi Creative, which has been sassing-up and snapping Vancouver since 2012.
"It started as a life partnership; Rob was working in the film industry while we were dating and it was a really difficult lifestyle to pace, to have any kind of balance. We got married and literally two weeks later he quit his job. It was terrifying. But I thought, 'I've been running a freelance business myself, so I know that we can do this.' We came up with the concept of Trendi Creative on the flight to our honeymoon. We would be cross promoting each other."
Launching Trendi Creative succeeded both in pushing the artists into new heights of awareness, and in whetting Eliza's appetite for entrepreneurship. She wanted more of it, and with her ever-growing list of loyal fringe followers, she knew that her salon ownership aspirations were now within reach.
"I've always been interested in real estate, and for two years I had been searching online for potential spaces, always keeping my ear to the ground. I had even written a full business plan so that I would be ready."
She'd been daydreaming about this since she first began Hair School. And when 3558 Fraser Street popped up on the market, Eliza was ready to pounce.
"The exciting part is just seeing all of these ideas and Pinterest boards come to life! I really wanted to create a space that felt like you were coming into someone's living room, a place you'd want to curl up in and hang out. We had all of these ideas going in and we would wonder how we were going to make it all come together, if it was going to look right.
"I'm incredibly proud of this space, proud of the stylists here and of the culture that I feel is forming. As much as you want to plan out what you want a vibe to be, it's something that grows organically. And I'm really proud that people have told me that when they come in they feel welcome."
It only takes a moment, the distance from door (which greets you with a golden 'hello') to the lounge of Turkish throw pillows, to ease into the chic friend's living room vibes, but they didn't come easily.
"Oh man, were there some trying times during the renovations! There was one week where I probably cried every single day, it just felt like one hang up after another. I was still working full-time at Beaute Salon, coming here before and after work every day to keep on with renovations. Not being a builder or a contractor myself, I didn't understand why some things were taking so long and just really wanted to be open. There were definitely some times in the middle of it where I questioned if it worth it, being so stressed and tired. But once we opened our doors, it was kind of like having a baby, how you forget all of the pain once it's finally here. I'd go through that ten times over for what I have now!"
There have been a lot of firsts for Eliza in opening Artel. For a stylist who has been so proudly independant throughout her career, the transition to having a roster of stylists depending on her launched a steep learning curve.
"Being on this side of things now, I have so much more understanding and gratefulness for my previous employers. Oh man, now I totally get why they did some of the things that they did!
"A lot of my hiring process was laying out clear expectations, being honest with every one of the stylists, saying, 'Hey this is my very first salon, this is my first time being a manager; I'm going to make mistakes. I'm learning as I go but let's learn together.' I want the channel of communication open."
Eliza may be new hand in the Boss Lady business, but she knew what she wanted and what she was looking for in curating the Artel team.
"For me, it was really really important when I was hiring stylists to look for a level of professionalism. Looking not only at their work but their vibe and what they put out there on social media; maintaining a level of professionalism inside and outside of the salon. I was looking also for a warmth and a welcoming because I wanted Artel to be an approachable space.
"The level of professionalism was one thing that was instilled very early on in Blanche and something that I still value. This is a very personal industry, but you always have to maintain that level of professionalism in the way that you dress, with your language, with your topics of conversation. You really never know who's sitting in the chair beside you and you never want to make anyone else feel uncomfortable. Just because you feel comfortable in a space doesn't mean everyone else does. You should always keep that at the back of your mind."
Eliza has done a lot of learning throughout her career and now, moving into this next big step, she has a lot more to come. The culture of constant education that she has surrounded herself in up to this point is one that she is eager to carry through to her own salon.
"I've learned to be more transparent and vulnerable with other stylists. When you first start out, there's this constant fear that you don't know what you're doing – because you really do have little idea of what you're doing. And sometimes there's this pressure to appear like you do. As time went on, I learned to be more open about when I was struggling with a colour formulation, or when my client wanted something and I wasn't sure where to start. Being humble enough to ask other people for help. The more open you are, the more other people are open back and that sharing of learning and being able to carry each other along has been huge.
"Surround yourself with people that are willing to teach you, that you look up to, whose work you want to emulate. I've been blessed to have worked with some really incredible stylists and I would constantly pick their brains, watch them and learn from them. That is invaluable."
Artel Salon is an exercise in balance: organics play with industrial in the decor, team success supports independent success, and each plays their part as mentor and mentored. It is professional and it is intimate. And just like Eliza herself, Artel is both savvy in business and rich in warmth.
It's early still, but Artel is already slated to be up there with the best of them in Vancouver's thriving salon scene and Eliza is doing it all herself, in her own way. The new day begins as the first client arrives, and Eliza leaves us to claim the hours with the same fire that brought her here, from chair rental stylist to owner of her six-seat, sun-slicked hair empire.
"Be hungry, stay hungry. When I was in school every person that I saw on the bus was a potential client. It's an easy industry to get into, but it's not necessarily an easy industry to stay in if you're not hungry. You have to work hard, put in the time and you have to really want it."


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CGTC Hosts High School SkillsUSA Competition
Central Georgia Technical College hosted the 2011 High School SkillsUSA Region 2 Championship. The competition was held on Friday, February 4, 2011 at the Macon Campus.
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February 8, 2011
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Shareholders Gorge on Payouts as Tax Hike NearsBy
One boom, megabust, and sort-of-boom after they first went into effect, the expiration of George W. Bush-era tax cuts could goose the top individual dividend income-tax rates to more than 43 percent from the current 15 percent. This comes at a time when companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lug about $900 billion in cash, a 40 percent jump since 2008 that has made them net suppliers of cash to the rest of the economy.
So then what better time than these waning days of 2012 for corporate managers—most often major shareholders themselves—to issue special, one-time dividends? In the spirit of the holiday season, too. It stands to reason that the closer the economy gets to falling off the fiscal cliff, the more likely boards would be to sign off on such payouts. The recent precedent for this was the final quarter of 2010, when companies raced to pay out extra cash on concerns that President Obama and the Republican Congress would not extend Bush-era tax cuts past the end of the year (that ball was effectively punted to the present).
A bit of history. Following Bush's midterm electoral mandate 10 years ago, the president spent a chunk of his political capital on a 2003 tax plan (PDF) that slashed rates on corporate dividends. The rationale was that more take-home from equity dividends would be both a boon to investors (and their disposable income) hit by a bear market, and a way to realign the interests of corporations and households in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the unearthing of Wall Street rot. Market talking heads swore that the shareholder-friendly move would inspire a renaissance in investing for income.
In practice, investors displayed no particular rush to buy major dividend-payers. If anything, the 2008-09 meltdown induced a record number of blue chips to slash their payouts—unthinkable last resorts for the bulge-bracketed likes of General Electric, Pfizer, and Citigroup.
Today, however, corporate profits are at a record and the Federal Reserve-stoked Great Yield Hunt has sent tens of billions of dollars into junk bond and dividend-stock funds.
"Providing a special dividend to shareholders might be a good idea to consider in light of the election turnout," says Joseph Perry, a partner in charge of tax and business services with accounting firm Marcum, which last month joined with broker Twenty-First Securities to urge companies to pay out early and often. "If you assume that dividend tax rates will go up next year, it is prudent to help your long-term shareholders before Dec. 31." Perry says this can be accomplished either by paying out any cash dividends before year-end or by paying a stock dividend, which is generally not taxed until the stock is sold (thereby allowing investors to defer taxes until they sell their shares, and to take advantage of a long-term capital gains rate that even under the Obama plan would still be half the maximum dividend tax rate).
The calculus is a confusing one. Perry says that this time of year is normally when investors look to harvest losses, accelerate deductions, postpone income, and invest in companies that don't pay dividends. "But for this year-end," he says, "they need to do the opposite."
The news tape increasingly has headlines from companies that get the need to shovel out excess cash while the shoveling's cheap.
The Buckle, a retailer based in Kearney, Neb., just announced a $4.50 special dividend in addition to its usual 20¢ quarterly dividend. By grouping the moves together, the company is effectively rewarding its investors with a 10 percent dividend. Last month, Trinity Bank in Fort Worth said it would pay (PDF) a special, one-time dividend to shareholders of $1 per share in addition to its second cash dividend of 20¢. "We don't know what the dividend tax rate will be in 2013," said President Jeffrey Harp in the statement. "But we know it will be higher. We can provide some tangible return now to our shareholders in the most tax-advantageous manner possible."
And just ahead of the election, Commerce Bancshares of Kansas City, Mo., announced a special, one-time dividend of $1.50 a share in addition to its usual quarterly outlay of 23¢. "Given the potential significant increases in tax rates on dividends beginning next year, and our strong levels of capital, it is an opportune time to provide this special dividend distribution to our shareholders before the end of the year," Chief Executive David Kemper remarked. Commerce also said that it would issue a 5 percent stock dividend in December.
According to Sandler O'Neill & Partners, the median percentage of community banks' earnings paid as dividends was 26.4 percent in the third quarter, which is down from 44 percent three years ago.
Depending on your worldview, that is a good or bad thing. Good: Such financial institutions are profitable enough to comfortably return money to shareholders. Bad: They can (and should) pay out much more. Writ large, this gets at a bigger tension: The desire for bigger dividends competes with chastened corporations' desire to hoard cash to avoid a 2008-09-like brush with death.


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Underground military installations played a major role in World War II. From Japan and the Philippine Islands to the European continent, tunnels and bunkers provided shelter, support services, work places, and storage space for soldiers and civilians. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, General Dwight Eisenhower, and General Douglas MacArthur commanded their armed forces from subterranean posts. So did Adolph Hitler--until he committed suicide in his underground command bunker. No battles were fought within the continental United States; nevertheless, underground structures were also built across the country to support the war effort. What has happened to those concrete-lined holes in the ground?
Some, of course, are still in use; active military bases need secure areas for munitions storage, for instance. Some were simply abandoned--left behind with no useful purpose foreseen. But a few have been revived to serve new functions. Here are some examples:
Like most US manufacturers, Ford Motor Company devoted its efforts to making war equipment between 1940 and 1945. Toward this effort, Ford built a 6-million-square-foot factory in Chicago, near the Chicago Municipal Airport (now Midway Airport), to build military aircraft engines. Two huge manufacturing buildings were above ground, but they were linked by two wide, bomb-proof tunnels. After brief post-war stints producing automobiles and then jet engines for the Korean Conflict, the factory languished. By the early 1960s, it was an empty hulk referred to by some as the "world's largest white elephant."
That's when a visionary developer bought the complex and turned it into Ford City, an urban shopping mall, with two above-grade sections connected by an underground tunnel (Peacock Alley) with retail spaces. The center quickly became successful. In 1987, Equity Properties and Development Company bought the mall and redeveloped that lower-level area, not only enhancing its internal character but also creating a more inviting entrance from the main mall. Now called "The Connection," this tunnel is a colorful, brightly lit retail corridor featuring 50,000 square feet of space apportioned among 20 stores offering nail, hair, and massage services as well as products including art, clothing, cigars, and collectibles. Another fortified tunnel is being used as a merchandise storage and processing area for one of the mall's department store anchors.
In Benicia, California, between San Francisco and Sacramento, a retired Navy armament bunker was recently refurbished into a stylish corporate headquarters. The December 2000 issue of Contract magazine describes the transformation orchestrated by the interior design firm Simon Martin-Vegue Winkelstein Moris. Premium Tobacco Stores Inc. had used the bunker as a warehouse before deciding to convert it into the company's 8,500-square-foot office complex. Sunlight was introduced into the space via skylights bored through the 20-inch-thick concrete roofs. Direct and indirect artificial lights add general illumination and highlight interior design elements and art objects. Rather than trying to disguise the bunker's pragmatic form, the renovation accented the arched-roof structure and the sandblasted, 3-foot-thick concrete walls. The leader of the design team credits the appealing results with helping the firm land a prized contract to design the interiors of American Airlines planes.
It's not as aesthetically appealing, but an abandoned Nazi bunker system in Poland is serving an important ecological purpose. The 18-mile-long system, buried 100-164 feet below ground and extending over a 9-square-mile area, was not quite completed when World War II ended. Occasional doorways and a series of vertical air shafts connect the sprawling system with the surface. During decades of disuse, the damp, dark, quiet spaces attracted increasing numbers of bats that migrated from surrounding areas each fall to hibernate in the abandoned bunkers and tunnels. Intensive use of artificial fertilizers in the area since 1950 took a heavy toll on the bat population. After the government stopped requiring the use of such chemicals in the 1980s, the bunker system provided a hospitable habitat that helped replenish the population of the insect-eating, flying mammals. Each year, at least 30,000 bats hibernate in the labyrinth--a number that is estimated to represent 90 percent of Poland's winter population of the valuable but misunderstood creatures. The Polish government has declared the bunkers to be a protected area known as the Nietoperek Bat Nature Reserve.
Several World War II underground complexes have been opened for public tours in recent years. The following examples are among them:
In World War II's Pacific theater, the Philippine island of Corregidor hosted two legendary battles. In 1942 Japanese forces prevailed, and in 1945 Allied forces regained control. The mile-long
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On the English Channel island of Jersey, a nearly completed
German Underground Hospital
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Quint Pottinger of Nelson County is a member of Class X of the Kentucky Agricultural Leadership Program (KALP).
KALP, housed in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment is an intensive two-year program designed for young agricultural producers and agribusiness individuals from Kentucky and Tennessee who want to be on the cutting edge of decisions that affect agriculture, rural communities and society.
The program identifies motivated and energetic people who seek to improve their leadership, management, and communication skills. Graduates then use those skills to meet the challenges facing agriculture and to enhance the quality of life in rural communities. Pottinger is one of the 22 applicants selected for Class X.
The program dates back to the mid-1980s and was originally called the Philip Morris Agricultural Leadership Development Program. Currently more than 100 financial supporters, including the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund, Kentucky agribusinesses, farm organizations, program alumni and participant fees provide funding.
The program consists of 10 domestic seminars devoted to important agricultural issues. Sessions also focus on improving participants' communication, leadership and management skills. Class members visit a variety of Kentucky farms and agribusinesses, Frankfort and Washington D.C., and will travel to other states and nations to explore agriculture in different settings.
Pottinger is the owner and operator of Precision Planting dealership division of Sideline Systems. Quint is responsible for creating and implementing budgeting, inventory, marketing, and sales plans. Pottinger is also the owner/operator of Affinity Farms, farming full-time growing corn, wheat, soybeans and a variety of vegetables. He earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kentucky. He is a member of the Kentucky Soybean Association and was President of Kentucky FFA. He was the State Proficiency Winner for Crop Production from Kentucky FFA. He was also part of the Leadership College for the American Soybean Association in 2012. Issues in agriculture that Quint considers important are advocacy for farmers, the "buy local" movement, and the connecting agriculture with national and international consumer markets. Quint's wife, Leah, is a graduate of Bellarmine University. She is a project manager for Kindred Healthcare and helps manage the vegetable farm.쇓
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by CowboysFanSince88, Nov 10, 2012.
the first game against the giants was the only game that this team played together as a whole team.
i am ready for another loss in philly. this team does not know how to compete against the eagles in philly.
If you scared get a Dog
This whole season reminds me of 1997. Big win on the road against a really good opponent only to get our hopes sky high. After that win we struggled to get above .500 the rest of the year only to finish 6-10 and looking for a new head coach. I do hope this one ends better but the similarities are certainly there.
i am not scared it is a fact. since reid has been head coach of the eagles he has owned the cowboys in philly. when they win it is a surprise to me. i can remember only four wins against reids eagles thirteen years all the other losses have been blowouts. so i see another blowout, the eagles always get back on track after a blowout win of the cowboys. i just hate the eagles. every year the cowboys are always 0-1 from the start of season because they always lose in philly. i am hopefull but with team this year i expect a blowout loss.
You expect a blowout loss from a team with no O-line, no defense, and a turnover prone QB?
I'm about to recommend you speak with the sports psychologist Dr. Joel Fish LOL
Why would you ever look past a division rival? It doesn't matter how bad they may be or what issues they are going through, it's still a division rival. Look at all the Redskin games in the last 10 or 12...a bunch have been decided by a FG...and we think they STINK!!
No team should be look past and with the parity of the league you shouldn't.
The Redskins and Browns are both better than the team we play tomorrow
So that equals an automatic win against the Eagles?
Yes, BOOK IT. When I book something it's a done deal.
I book 4 or 5 times a year and this is one of my last BOOKS
Can you give examples of some of your past "books"?
Eagles were 2-0 after winning by 1 pt in both games and I booked that the cardinals would win in week 3 against them. All my other books was from the NBA
I agree and would say we need to focus on winning each possession. The more focus the more each person is capable of.
We have no business doing anything but taking it one game at a time.
31-10 ? Nope, no way. Eagles will never let that happen, Reid is playing for his job
Reid been playing for his job the last 4 games and the team is 0-4, so again tell me what you are talking about.


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June 18, 2012
Award Winners: Felice Mueller | Kellen Russell
MGoBlue.com Awards | Michigan Athletes of the Year
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan Athletic Department announced today (Monday, June 18) that senior rower Felice Mueller (Cleveland Heights, Ohio/Pomfret School, Conn.) and senior wrestler Kellen Russell (High Bridge, N.J./Blair Academy HS) have been named the Michigan Athletes of the Year. This is the second straight year that Russell has earned the top male athletic honor, and Mueller is the first rower to earn the honor for a female athlete.
"Felice and Kellen competed at a high level in both their athletic competitions and in the classroom," said Dave Brandon, the Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics. "Kellen won an individual national title and Felice led the rowing team to a runner-up finish at the national championship. Not only are they terrific athletes, both graduated from the University of Michigan and have earned academic honors along the way. Felice and Kellen are most deserving of the female and male athlete of the year awards."
Russell is the sixth Michigan athlete to win back-to-back athlete of the year honors and just the second male. The other two-time winners are: Tom Dolan, men's swimming (1995-96); Ann Colloton, women's swimming (1989-90); Sarah Griffin, softball (1996, '98); Jennie Ritter, softball (2005-06); Tiffany Ofili, women's track (2008-09). Last season, Russell shared the award for male athlete of the year with NCAA all-around champion Sam Mikulak (Corona del Mar, Calif./Corona del Mar HS) from the men's gymnastics team.
Mueller led the women's rowing team to a second-place finish at the 2012 NCAA Championships, tying for its highest finish in program history. It was also the best team finish for any Wolverine squad this season. Individually, Mueller earned College Rowing Coaches Association Pocock All-America first team honors and was named the Big Ten Rower of the Year after leading the Wolverines to the conference championship. She earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades for the third straight season.
Russell won his second consecutive 141-pound national title at the 2012 NCAA Championships, claiming the crown with a takedown in overtime. In addition to the NCAA title, he was named the co-Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Big Ten Championships after becoming the 11th wrestler in conference history and the first Michigan athlete to win four Big Ten titles. Russell also excelled off the mat, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors and selection to the NWCA All-Academic team. He was named the Detroit Athletic Club's 2012 Male College Athlete of the Year.
Following are biographical sketches on Mueller and Russell:
Michigan Female Athlete of the Year
Senior Felice Mueller helped lead the University of Michigan women's rowing team to one of the best seasons in program history in 2012, earning the Big Ten Conference title and a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championships.
Mueller's first varsity eight boat rowed to a second-place finish at the national championship regatta in late May, propelling the team to a second-place finish overall and tying for the best finish in program history (2001). Mueller also led the 1V8 boat to the Big Ten title, a win which secured the team Big Ten championship for the Wolverines, their conference-leading fifth league crown and the program's first since 2004.
Mueller was recognized with several individual accolades for her performance this season, including first team All-America and first team All-Central Region from the Collegiate Rowing Coaches of America. Mueller earned first team All-Big Ten honors and was named the 2012 Big Ten Athlete of the Year for rowing.
The Cleveland Heights, Ohio, native recently graduated from Michigan's School of Art and Design and earned her third Academic All-Big Ten award.
She also is a decorated international rower, winning goal medals for the U.S. in the Under-23 pair event in 2010 and 2011. Mueller and her partner set a world-record time of 7:14.07 in 2010, only to break their record in 2011 with a time of 7:05.13.
Michigan Male Athlete of the Year
Fifth-year senior Kellen Russell capped his collegiate career with his second straight NCAA title in 2012, posting a near-perfect 33-1 record against a tough national field at 141 pounds.
Russell became the sixth wrestler in U-M program history to capture multiple NCAA titles with a 6-4 overtime victory against Iowa's Montell Marion in the championship match. After trading one takedown and two escapes apiece through the match's first seven minutes, Russell countered a shot midway through the sudden-victory frame, stuffing the head before spinning around behind to wrap up the Hawkeye and bring him to the mat and end the bout with 23 seconds on the clock.
The Wolverine captain also defeated Marion, 7-2, in the 141-pound Big Ten Championships final, becoming just the 11th four-time Big Ten champion in conference history and the first in Michigan history. Russell was named the co-Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Championships.
Russell's lone loss of the season came against Ohio State's Hunter Stieber in the quarterfinals of the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational in early December. Russell avenged that setback to Stieber with a 5-2 decision in the NCAA semifinal round. The Wolverine won his final 26 matches of the season and claimed 71 of 72 matches over his junior and senior campaigns.
A physical education major, Russell completed his student teaching during the fall 2011 semester. He earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and was selected to the NWCA All-Academic team. He also was named the Detroit Athletic Club's Male College Athlete of the Year and was selected as U-M's recipient of the Cliff Keen Most Outstanding Wrestler and Steve Fraser Mental Toughness awards for the second straight year.
Russell completed his collegiate career with a 134-12 record, tying for eighth place on Michigan's all-time wins list. His career win percentage of .918 ranks second in program history.
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Tru Tech
Tru Tech Doors will showcase the Belmont Craftsman beaded smooth fiberglass door and the Belmont three-panel Craftsman mahogany fiberglass door. The Belmont collection features a mahogany-textured finish, crafted with premium materials to replicate the authentic wood unique to mahogany, according to the exhibitor. Tru Tech will also feature four new decorative glass products: Berkley, Empire, Calandra and Kaleo. The Berkley antique patina glass design has clear and granite bevels, while the Calandra design features black chrome caming, mistlite, and clear and beveled glass. The Kaleo design is detailed with multi-beveled glass, kasumi and black chrome caming.
Kleiberit Adhesives
Kleiberit Adhesives offers exterior adhesives that are capable of handling extreme heat and cold, and ever-changing expansion and contraction rates, according to the company. Kleiberit's newest adhesive, 704.6, along with the low-VOC 840 primer series, offers strength, stability and long-term durability. At Win-Door, Kleiberit will have engineers available to discuss the benefits of its latest products.
Aribell will display its new AB‐Q‐LW683 door weatherstripping that offers a thicker profile for a tighter seal and low-wick foam for better performance, the exhibitor reports. The new design increases contact with the door panel face, eliminating air and water infiltration when subjected to high air pressure. As moisture wicks into the foam, its travel and subsequent volume is limited once it contacts the closed cells, which is especially important in cold climates where the weatherstripping can freeze when saturated, Aribell reports. Also on display at Win-Door will be Aribell's Postmaster Platinum weather-stripped mail slot for steel, fiberglass or wood doors. The mail slot features foam weatherstripping and marine-grade stainless steel construction for corrosion resistance.
On display at Win-Door, Fenewood Ltd.'s vinyl-wrapped wood door jambs are maintenance free and guaranteed against delamination, according to the exhibitor. The vinyl is permanently fused to the wood substrate, keeping wood dry and preventing warping, wicking and rotting, the exhibitor reports. Due to its strength against harsh weather, the vinyl wrapping will not wave like cladding when exposed to temperature changes, Fenewood reports.
Hedson Technologies
Hedson Technologies now offers the IRT Model 3-2 PcD infrared paint curing unit, on display in Toronto. The IRT dryer improves paint finishing production times dramatically, according to the exhibitor. Ensuring that painted products are 100 percent dry prior to handling helps maintain production and delivery schedules and ensures a high quality finished product, making the IRT a cost-effective, user-friendly, technology, Hedson reports.


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Mango pickle, an integral part of Indian meal, especially southern India was the name of choice for this website due to the nostalgia it brought with it. There are several varieties of pickles made out of different vegetables all across India. Though usually spicy, they all differ in their taste and processing. Mango pickle, the original variety made out of baby green mango is special because of the seasonality and the process it involves. The baby Mangoes used for pickling are of special variety that are specifically harvested for pickling. There is something about these baby mango pickles that has nostalgic qualities, the spicy, zesty flavor that instantly makes my mouth water also brings back the childhood memories of watching those off-white ciramic jars with mustard yellow stripes on them lined up in a dedicated attic that stored "rainy day" food.
In the agriculture driven regions of southern coastal lines of India, the process of pickling is a big deal. It represents a season, a tradition and planning for the rainy day, literally. The tropical belt of south India with dense western ghat forests often get plenty of rain forcing people stay inside home. The rainfall also brings shortage of vegetable supply and calls for creative ways to utilize what is available and still bring variety. Pickling is one such process that helps preserve many summer ingredients and extend their usage well into rainy season. There are two types of pickling that is in practice, The simple pickling preserves certain types of vegetables/fruits in an acidic solution, which is usually a saturated salt solution, where a large amounts of salt is dissolved by boiling in the water, cooling it off and using as preservative solution.
This type of pickling is used to preserve some summer vegetables to carry on to rainy season. Most common types stored are raw mangoes and green Jackfruit slices. This also explains the creativity of the regional cuisine that just seem to master the skill of using the same key ingredient and turning it into different dish with slight change in process. A more complex form of pickling takes from this first step and adds carefully processed spices, without any exposure to water or moisture, in order to preserve the pickle for a long time, typically couple years. These type of pickles are used as side dish and they are popular and even commercially available.
The pickling of baby mangoes and green mangoes before they start ripening is a process that starts few months before the peak summer months, typically March. It is a period of much activity in the households, where the men go shopping for best quality mangoes harvested specifically for pickling. There are baby mangoes that are available in different flavors such as cumin which are perfect for pickling. There is a big tradition of raw mango based dishes in this region of India which also produces many varieties of mangoes.


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Giants Prospects Among Baseball's Best
Gary Brown and Kyle Crick both rank among top 100 prospects according to MLB.com
By Joe Ritzo / AFL Media Relations | February 4, 2013 1:00 PM ET
Former San Jose Giant Gary Brown received mention on the MLB.com Top 100 prospects in baseball list released last week. Brown, who garnered the #100 overall prospect ranking, is coming off of a season at Double-A Richmond where he hit .279 with seven home runs, 32 doubles and 42 RBI's in 134 games. Brown, who started slow last year but managed to hit an even .300 from June 1 through the end of the regular season, was the only position player in the San Francisco farm system that was ranked among the top 100 prospects.
MLB.com notes that, "Brown's best tool is his plus speed, which allows him to be a terrific center fielder as well as a major basestealing threat, though he needs to learn to be more efficient on the basepaths." Brown led the Flying Squirrels with 33 stolen bases last year, but was also caught 18 times. He hit considerably better against left-handed pitching (.319) compared to versus right-handers (.264) while ranking fourth in the Eastern League in hits (150).
Brown's breakout year in the minor leagues came with the San Jose Giants in 2011 when he was named team MVP and the California League Rookie of the Year. Brown hit .336 with San Jose while also producing 34 doubles, 13 triples, 14 home runs, 80 RBI's and 53 stolen bases. His 188 hits established a new San Jose Giants single-season record. MLB.com adds that Brown "has an understanding that his job is to be a catalyst at the top of the lineup, one who can get on base and let his speed work for him."
Brown will likely open the 2013 season with the Triple-A Fresno Grizzlies.
Kyle Crick was the only other Giants prospect on the top 100 list as the flame-throwing right-hander was placed at #86 overall. Crick had a terrific 2012 campaign with the Class-A Augusta GreenJackets logging a 2.51 ERA and a 7-6 record over 22 starts. He struck out a whopping 128 batters in just 111 1/3 innings and limited the opposition to a .193 batting average.
MLB.com describes Crick's fastball as "easily plus, though he's still learning to command it" and that "all the pieces are there for him to be a frontline starter."
Baseball America also rated Crick the top prospect in the San Francisco organization last week. After his stellar year in the South Atlantic League, it's expected that Crick will begin this season as a member of the San Jose starting rotation.
Last year, Brown (#48) and Francisco Peguero (#98) were ranked on MLB.com's Top 100 prospects list.
MLB.com is scheduled to announce their top 20 San Francisco Giants prospects on Friday.
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Social media and eCommerce advertising have been getting quite cosy, with 78% of consumers relying on social media to influence their purchase decision, and where there are potential buyers to be swayed, there are bound to be a lot of businesses competing to do the swaying. On the one hand, this has brought what seems like […]
Social media and eCommerce advertising have been getting quite cosy, with 78% of consumers relying on social media to influence their purchase decision, and where there are potential buyers to be swayed, there are bound to be a lot of businesses competing to do the swaying.
On the one hand, this has brought what seems like a never-ending stream of sponsored content, ads, and self-advertising posts, and on the other, and more to the benefit of the user, an increase in the importance of branding and authentic communication from businesses active on social media.
As users gradually develop ad blindness and become more discerning, advertisers have to not only focus on the quality of their campaigns but that of their overall communication strategies. Often times, the casual Facebook user can be more knowledgeable about platform trends and best practices than the brands they follow, or rather, than the people managing brand pages, leading to sub-par communication, deterioration of the brand's image and, ultimately, a decline in sales or, at the very least, well below the eCommerce store's full potential.
If you manage an eCommerce store's social media account or have someone who's doing it for you, here are some of the things you might want to keep an eye on if you want your investment to pay off.
It might have been relatively effective 5 years ago and tolerable 2 years ago but, at this point, asking people to Please like and share every single one of your posts is right up there with panhandling and here's why; if people like what you've posted they'll like or share it without you having to tell them to do so and if your content is rubbish or simply doesn't relate to your audience, they're not going to react anyway. Some repeat offenders confuse this spamming-type of behaviour with a call to action but make no mistake, it is nothing more than spam.
If you're not getting the engagement you're looking for on your posts, targeting, audience and post quality are the first things you should be looking at, not whether or not you've asked people to react to your posts. No, spelling it in all caps, doesn't help either, it does however make it sound like you're screaming your lungs out at your audience. The issue isn't just that you're wasting valuable content real estate but that you're likely annoying your audience with spam, rather than replacing it with clever calls to action.
I don't know about you, but I think Desigual is doing pretty good without asking people to "LIKE and SHARE".
No-one is too old for fairytales…
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No-one is too old for fairytales…
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Because we've gotten so used to them, people tend to use hashtags as a statement or to highlight a state of mind, as a fun sort of way to garnish their posts. Where it might be fun to do this as an inside joke, when brands start to do it on a regular basis they not only miss the entire point of using hashtags but tend to look clueless. Contrary to popular belief, hashtags are not the hip equivalent of punctuation. In very simple terms, they are labels that identify things that relate to each other, making it easier for people to find them.
A Starbucks store nestled between two continents. #WhereInTheWorld pic.twitter.com/k7nFMbo0Mu
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A Starbucks store nestled between two continents. #WhereInTheWorld pic.twitter.com/k7nFMbo0Mu
— Starbucks Coffee (@Starbucks) January 6, 2016
A simple analogy would be to think about them as distinctive labels that correspond to all of your spoons, forks and knives, with other subsets which, in turn, correspond to teaspoon spoons, fish forks and stake knives and so on. Following the analogy, the purpose of the fork hashtag is to help you find other content related to forks and the subsets allow you to discover more specific types of content.
Using hashtags effectively involves understanding not just what they are and how they work but their popularity. Twitter offers a list of trending hashtags from the get-go but there are plenty of tools to help you discover what hashtags people are using.
Therefore, coming up with your own hashtags can be an asset so long as it relates to something people understand and you're not the only one using it. Event or campaign-specific hashtags are great if awareness is built beforehand and you encourage people to use them during the event as well, allowing you to track updates related to the event and engage with participants.
Last, but by no means least, the key to effectively using hashtags is moderation. Depending on the social media platform you use, pick 3 to 5 relevant hashtags, and don't try to use every single broad one you can think of in the faint hope of getting a few extra impressions. It's blue, it's confusing, it's the social media equivalent of keyword stuffing and it makes the poster look like they're grasping at straws.
I think we're well past the point where we naively believe brands are active on social media to help us do anything other than buy their services and/ or products, and that's perfectly fine. On the other side of the fence, most brands have understood that they have to deliver something other than products on social media in order to grab and, more importantly, keep the attention of their audience focused on them.
You don't have to be a yogi to twist this cookie. Show us how you twist with #PlayWithOreo.
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eCommerce stores, in particular, seem to suffer from a chronic case of limited time offer-itis, huge sale syndrome and, considering their post alternatives, are convinced that the way to treat these conditions is through #dailyinspiration. How many times a week can you seriously expect posts "borrowed" from Google images to provide any sort of engagement, especially if you're selling hubcaps and you're constantly posting e-cards.
Posting for the sake of posting means you're delivering content with the goal of populating people's feeds rather than communicating with them, therefore, the quality of your messaging will be sub-par. What's more, even if your post is successfully engaging your audience, like memes often do, unless they're in any way related to your business or product, you're providing non-branded entertainment that's working for your audience but not for your business. In this case, it won't make any difference whether they're getting it from you or the next brand, so what's the real value of delivering it in the first place?
Driven by their desire to advertise every chance they get, a lot of brands try to use every single piece of content real estate they have to deliver promos, discounts, coupons and whatnot. The saddest victim of this insatiable desire to use up every inch of available space is the social media cover, most frequently the Facebook cover.
For many, Facebook is the first social media channel they used for advertising and there really was a time when Facebook covers worked as a surrogate billboard…4 years ago. Then Facebook was gracious enough to let us pick and choose the ways we want to advertise on the platform.
The point of having a nifty cover on Facebook, or any other social media account for that matter, is to enhance your branding. There are so many clever ways of showcasing your brand's personality and creativity through social media covers and, hopefully, small and medium brands will start to use this asset to their advantage, as well.
Posted by Aïshti on Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Since we're talking about advertising, do make sure you check your seasonal or limited-time campaigns. Have you been advertised fashion-forward brand pages by means of visuals featuring nice, warm mittens? In May?
If you know yourself to be forgetful, set an end date to your ads, especially if they feature seasonal products or visuals. Most often, page managers forget to update visuals advertising the page itself, since they might have multiple versions running and it's relatively easy to miss a tiny thumbnail featuring a beach, promoting your page and its boatload of seasonal ski trip offers.
Similarly, make sure you sync the start date of your sales campaign with that of the one advertising it, otherwise you'll be paying to drive people to your website only to slap them with a 404 right across their open wallets, and a disappointed potential buyer, might not be a returning visitor.
Specialists have been warning us for quite a while now – social media platforms can no longer be treated as simple advertising environments. They have become effective channels of communication between businesses and individuals across all industries and levels of digital competency and communication strategies have to be adapted accordingly, if businesses have any hope in building authentic relationships with their consumers, lasting beyond the occasional scroll through their newsfeeds.
Expectations and the reality of what a brand new website or redesign can do, can often be light-years apart. Increase in sales, lower marketing costs and a boom in popularity are among the most anticipated outcomes of a new website, but are they realistic?
New things and great expectations go hand in hand and very few things are as pumped up as a business owner with a brand new website. This is it folks. You've searched far and wide to find the perfect web agency to fulfill your every whim, you've been patient through all the long and tedious development stages, you've paid hand over fist to see your "baby" come to life and now it's time to reap the rewards! cue epic victory score composed, or at least, inspired by Hans Zimmer. This is the moment your business changes forever, except it won't. Not really.
Misconceptions about what a website actually is and does lead to unrealistic expectations which, in turn, lead business owners and/ or managers to blame agencies or designers for their eCommerce store's less-than-stellar performance, rather than admit that either the Internet simply doesn't work the way they'd like it to, or that they've simply been sabotaging themselves. If you don't want to be sorely disappointed, here's what you shouldn't expect from your website.
Probably the biggest misconception regarding websites is that they're supposed to be "pretty" and "liked". Nothing could be farther from the truth. A website, be it an eCommerce store, blog, portfolio, etc is functional. It's there to sell, communicate, showcase and sometimes a bit of everything and a few more things in between and statistics show you've got little over half a second to help your audience form an opinion about your website. It's not there for you to like or judge from an aesthetic point of view. Even so, every single business owner tries to get their own ideas, examples, sketches, childhood dreams through the proverbial door and into their website.
It's precisely this sense of ownership that prevents clients from distancing themselves from the project and letting designers and developers do their jobs. There's a fine line between telling the designer or agency what you need and telling them what you want and how to do it. It's a bit like going to the emergency room with a busted arm and telling the doctor you'd like a chevron stitch with baby pink thread. Oh and you simply must have a bare minimum of 4.
Often businesses are the architects of their own failures when it comes to website design. It's true that agencies give into client demands rather than invest more time in trying to talk them out of wrong decisions, which is why it's extremely important to turn to someone who can properly advise you and not someone who'll simply do as their told. A good designer will give you what you need, whether you like it or not.
Well now that we have this gorgeous website with no less than 5 banners on one page and 3 contact form on another, which by the way is an awful idea, we can stop pouring so much money into marketing and start saving up, right? After all, we've just paid a random amount of money for this magnificent hunk of website. If you've gone for a website redesign in an effort to cut down on your marketing costs, you're about to find out just how lonely a place the Internet can be.
Your brand new website suffers from the same acute condition every other web domain does, namely the issue of discoverability. Regardless of how functional, pretty, innovative your website is, having those attributes only helps once users visit your website and for that they, obviously have to discover it. The effects of a redesign are apparent much sooner when applied to users who are frequent visitors and access it directly but take, what may seem like eons, for new visitors.
And here's where your marketing campaigns come into play. Contrary to popular opinion, an online marketing campaign's primary purpose isn't to sell an arbitrary sum of things. It's main objective is to find and effectively use the overlap between your product or service and your audience's needs and, in finding this sweet spot, make you stand out within your market segment. No website, no matter how wonderful can advertise itself. However, an effective marketing campaign identifies the people who want/ need your product and brings them to your website, while the website captures and converts said traffic into sales. Which brings us to the next misconception.
I've mentioned that part of a website's job description is to capture and convert traffic. Still, this doesn't mean that your brand new website will automatically make you filthy rich simply by being there. Confused yet? Let me explain. If you're starting an eCommerce business from scratch, you will, in time, see an increase in sales thanks to your online shop. That's because, since we're talking about a new business, any amount of sales represents an increase when compared to nothing. Things are quite different when it comes to redesigns.
The latter is a process that involves understanding what users are doing on the old website, what features or lack of features are chasing away potential customers, determining how the business can be better represented, how to build a better experience for your visitors and many other factors we'll get into in a later article. This is probably the stage where most businesses sabotage themselves in part because they press their personal preferences on the design and development team without fully understanding what they're doing but mostly, and this is the saddest bit, because service providers are either too lazy or to complacent to explain their decision-making process and talk clients out of bad choices. An important statistic to mention at this point is that research shows 94% of people cited web design as the reason they mistrusted or rejected a website, which is why design and development teams doing their jobs right is so important for you and your business.
If, and I have to stress the if, done right a redesign will increase your sales by simply being less disruptive to the user's experience and being better at converting traffic. However, there are issues that a redesign can't fix. If your product is overpriced, a flashy website likely won't dupe visitors into spending more on the exact same product and neither will it wipe clean a horrific reputation. What it can do, is showcase the benefits that justify the higher prices and slowly but steadily, help you build trust between the business and its potential customers by being more transparent, offering more secure payment options and professional customer support.
Of course, a responsive and functional website is not cheap and a substantial investment can blur the line between hopes and the actual potential of your new website. This is why it's extremely important for design and development teams to accurately outline what the business owner can expect from their website, its goals and for business managers and owner to let these teams do their jobs. Why? Because in a world in which over $1 trillion in all retail sales per year are web-influenced, can you really afford to have a website you enjoy more than your potential customers?
At the foundation of every successful eCommerce store lies a great product. However, without a proper description, customers will never get to know how great your product is, let alone purchase it. Find out how to write product descriptions that showcase and sell your products.
In very simple terms, there are two actions performed when someone tries to sell a product, showing it and describing it. Along with adequate product photos, product descriptions are, for all intents and purposes, an eCommerce shop's salesman. Forget about site speed, SEO and special offers.
If your product descriptions are dismal, your sales figures will follow suite. Why? It's quite simple if you think about it. In a brick and mortar shop, an attendant will be able to explain the product's features, its usefulness, emphasize its quality, etc. On an eCommerce shop, product descriptions perform that function and since there's no actual rapport with the potential customer, they have to be even more persuasive. Let's look at a few ways you can write kick-ass descriptions that actually sell.
Business owners tend to get caught up in a "numbers game" when it comes to anything related to eCommerce or online advertising. They obsessively count how many visitors they've had, how many likes they've earned and how many people have shared or commented on their posts, focusing more on the figures and reach, rather than their worth. The difficult truth is, most of the time, there are maybe a few thousand people worldwide who are interested in a business' constant updates and even less actual buyers. Find them! No, really, find them. Understand who they are, what they do, what they like and, most importantly, what they need so you can fulfill that need.
Defining buyer personas means much more than acquiring demographics on your target audience. It extends to understanding them, being able to predict what cultural references they respond to, what movies they like, what affects their shopping habits, etc. Buyer personas offer structured insight about your target audience giving you actionable information. The more detailed they are, the more you'll be able to tailor your content in a way that reaches and motivates your target audience specifically.
Big brands have big identity manuals, small businesses that play it by ear have the worst case of personality disorder you'll ever see. eCommerce business owners mistakenly believe that branding manuals are something you graduate to as your business grows. The truth is that a brand identity should, in a perfect world, be defined before you even start a business and has absolutely nothing to do with how big your store is, how many products or visitors it has.
Giving your brand an identity means giving it a form, function and voice. Its purpose is to establish who it is, what it inspires, how it wants the audience to perceive it. If it were a person, you'd have to instruct it what to wear, down to the tailoring and colours, how and what to say about your business, what jokes to tell, etc. Knowing who your brand is means you can be consistent throughout not just your product descriptions but your messages across all channels, as well. Not to mention that when analyzed in conjunction with detailed buyer personas, it can help you bridge the gap between how consumers perceive your business and the image you want to portray.
Now that you know who you are and you've got a good idea of who your customers are, you can meet their needs with convincing unique selling propositions. If you don't already know, figure out and detail the benefits of each product, preferably in a manner that solves a problem your audience has. It might seem self-explanatory to you but, then again, it's your business. Be careful not to dumb it down too much and end up sounding condescending.
Don't sell the product, sell the experience.
Unfortunately, many eCommerce shops take the safe route and list a bunch of features without explaining them or putting them in a context the consumer can relate to. Sure, saying your strawberry jam contains organic strawberries is useful but your odds of making a potential customer's mouth water are much higher if you say your homemade, 100% organic strawberry jam has a wonderful velvety texture. Regardless if you're a manufacturer or retailer, remember, you're not selling a run-of-the-mill product, you're selling an experience.
Some people like to spend a lot of time window-shopping and some don't. Some like to read every single detail but most people just skim the content. Research conducted by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that only 16% of people read content word by word. If you're second-guessing your commitment to detailed, custom, targeted product descriptions because only 16% will read it all, don't. No description means you can't emphasize the benefits of buying your product and half-assed content will only detract from the trust consumers have in your business and product because, let's face it, if you don't care about your products, why should they?
Skimming simply means you have to make it easier for key features to stand out and, most importantly, that you put yeah,yeah phrases(the filler-content one adds when one has absolutely nothing useful to say) in the trash, where they belong. Using short and relevant phrases, bullet-points and a clean design are just a few ways in which you can make your content easier to read.
Having a personality isn't worth much if you don't show it off. Retailers in particular tend to settle for whatever the manufacturer provides them or simply outline product features in a bland, all-too-familiar list. While this might be better than nothing and does provide your customer with an inkling into what the product might do for them, eCommerce studies have shown that 20% of abandoned purchases can be attributed to incomplete or unclear product information.
The way you package your information is just as important as the information itself.
This is the part where understanding your customers is essential. Knowing what your target audience needs and responds to means you can meet the demand accurately. While eCommerce shops make products accessible around the clock, the draw-back is that images and descriptions are the only way potential buyers can experience products, making sensory words the cornerstone of effective descriptions.
We all know that a tailored suit or a bespoke piece of jewelry is more expensive than a store-bought one because you pay not only for the craftsmanship but for the experience of owning something that is made especially for you, as well. This expectation somehow flies out the window when it comes to copywriting. Business owners discard the value of custom-crafted content in favor of default manufacturer descriptions or even worse, looking into content-generation software, amounting to keyword littering and incoherent text. Not only is this insulting to an entire industry but it's one of the worst things a business manager can do.
You get what you've paid for.
Just like any other service, the quality of the final product is directly proportional to your investment. If you'd rather not spend money on a copywriter then do it yourself, but understand that it will take time, practice and you'll have to be very adaptable in order to come up with good-quality material. I for one, would much rather read an honest description written by a beginner than an impersonal, repetitive list.
Consumers look to your product images and descriptions in order to find the value of your product and justify its price. What you show them and what you tell them should convey what the product is, what it does, why it does it better than any other product, why they need it and how it will make their lives better. Nobody will ever spend money on something they don't understand or perceive to be as valuable as its price tag. At best, they'll look to fulfill their need somewhere else. In either case, you've lost their business, not because your product wasn't up to par but because your presentation of it was found wanting.
Every single business wants to stand out from the competition and the truth is, there's plenty of it. The most important thing you have to remember is that if you always settle for the bare minimum, if average is always good enough, that's all your business can ever hope to be – average.
Is posting the nauseatingly repetitive "Happy Birthday" the best you can do on social media for your friends' birthday?
It wasn't too long ago when wishing someone Happy Birthday involved actively seeking them out, in person or at least on the phone. In our fast-paced social era, that personal touch; the meetup, the hug, the smiles, have been replaced by impersonal wall posts or direct messages.
Instead of improving the way we connect and communicate with others, many believe that social networks are turning us into intellectually lazy copycats. But is it really the network or is it us?
Obviously, not everybody is disinterested or intellectually lazy, so why do we eagerly participate in this exercise of socially-acceptable spamming? For the same reason we take part in other activities we don't necessarily agree with, peer pressure. Starting with the platform itself urging you to Write on Jack's wall or Send Annie a message, to the pressure created by seeing so many people actually doing it, we're guilted into following suit or risk offending our friends. On the other side of the equation, we have the birthday boy or girl, who then has to go through each repetitive post, like it and comment on it; because simply posting "Thanks everyone for your wishes" is so last season.
I admit, I've taken part in this silly ritual a lot of times and, eventually, I stopped and asked myself, why in the name of all thing rational am I doing this? And the answer is simple: because everyone else is. But this isn't what online social interaction is supposed to be about. Our generation is afforded the privilege of having the tools to remember important dates in our friends' lives and be there for them so don't let that go to waste. Here are a couple of ideas to inspire your next birthday wishes.
Nothing says "You're important to me" like having people they admire wish them the best on their very special day. Radu Chelariu of Sickdesigner.com did just that for his good friend and code ninja; Liviu Dobre. For Liviu's 30th birthday, Radu asked well-known designers and developers to record a short video wishing him "Happy birthday" and created montage for the occasion. Now, these guys had never met Liviu and some of them didn't even know Radu but, to their credit, they were real troopers and came through.
You can choose to pamper yourself, have a roaring party, relax at a resort or take the opportunity to raise awareness about something that really matters to you. Beth Kanter celebrated her 53rd birthday by using the power of social media to benefit cambodian children. Beth asked her friends and family to donate $10 or $53 to help send children to school. 142 people made Beth's wish come true in what must have been a really inspiring birthday.
Social media is your very own soap box so why not take a page out of the Michael J. Morgan book of putting-Facebook-to-good-use and tell people exactly what you want. Not wanting to read repetitive posts, void of any meaning or emotion, two days before his birthday, Michael posted this on his wall:
My birthday is on the 4th. Instead of saying, 'Happy Birthday' share your fondest memory of you and I.
Starting with his mom, his family and friends took him on a trip down memory lane that was truly meaningful.
Peer pressure is a bully that rears its ugly head both offline and online but I think it's important to remember that beyond the social media voyeurism and sheepish mentality there are real relationships that thrive thanks to the easy access social networks afford. In other words, you've got the tools, what you do with them is entirely up to you.


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I know I should of taken care of this long ago, but I didn't and here I am now. Anyways, I bought my truck from someone at the Turkey run in 2003. I have fixed it up and want to title and register it now. I went to the DMV just to check and see what hoops they wanted me to jump through.
Now here is the problem. The guy that I bought the vehicle from, is not the guy who owned the title and he is not the dealer that the title had been reassigned too. (please don't point out the legalities of this, I know their is a statute against this but I messed up long ago) The DMV mentioned a court order, but I don't know how to start that, anyone know how to do that?
Anyways, the title was signed over by the dealer but all he did was fill out his dealer info. He didn't put in the purchaser information, so theoretically, I could fill out the purchaser information and it would look like I bought the truck from the dealer. But then I wouldn't have a bill of sale.
So right now, I have a bill of sale from the guy I bought the truck from and a title but they don't match.
I don't want to use a title company like broadway for this since I have a title, but I would like some suggestions as to how I can take care of this problem. I'd like to do this properly and I know state laws vary, but any help, suggestions, advice, similar problems will be appreciated.
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I've been doing some research on changing out my stock headlights with headlights of another kind. I'm not sure if it is the fact that my stock bulbs have a yellow tint to them, or my eye-sight is going, but it can be difficult to see at night. My gf even laughs at my high-beams.
With that said, I'm interested in changing my bulbs/entire enclosure out with something better. Question is, what is better now-a-days?
I understand that the HID lights are best. And I would love to do the mod for the HID setup. But I am nervous to. I also would like to get the best bang for my buck, as I do not want to be cheap (I know that cheap means.... crap) but I don't want to get too expensive.
I've ordered new rotors, brakes and hardware to replace my old, so I figured while I wait for them to come in the mail, I will order new lighting to do my changes all at once. Only thing I have left to do is figure out which way I should go for headlights? Halogen or HID that is not too expensive??? If Halogen, can someone please refer me to the best bulbs out right now? If HID, someone refer to me to a decent distributor that isn't too too costly??? I'm really stuck.
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So I am looking for some local shops that I can use on a regular basis and build a good relationship with so I can trust them with my car no matter the issue. But, my main question is about their Stage 1 package they offer, [URL="http://store.crawfordperformance.com/store/products/635"]here.[/URL] (I have never once read on this or other forums of using an air/oil separator in a stage 1 reflash with the Cobb AP) I was curious if anyone has seen or used this before and if it is even worth it. I was also looking into getting a CBE, should I justwait and save up to do this all at the same time? I want a TBE, but not sure if I am ready for that commitment level yet, nor do I have the cash for all that not to mention I would want a protune with it also. So that is, unfortunately, out of the question.
I have only had my 06 WRX for about a month now and I am already used the power and want/need more! But, I want to do it right and I want to be able to slowly upgrade the car without having to go back an re-upgrade certain parts.
Thanks for the help and if you have any shop recommendations I would love to check out some other places before I commit to anyone.
Over priced. Unless you track the car their AOS is not a necessity for stage 1. And at that stage in modding paying a premium for another OTS map over Cobb's is not really well spent.
I'm, not savvy on Crawford. They've had a few issues with their engine builds (bad builds and the customers get blamed) and they tend to offer shoddy engine advice.
Cool, that's what I am looking for, because the AOS has never once came up in Stage 1 or 2 threads I have read. I think I may just buy the Cobb AP and find a good CBE, probably Cobb, Perrin or Nvidia and go with a reflash to stage 1.
Looks like I may be looking elsewhere for a Subie tuner shop. Any other advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Ahead of the upcoming Xbox One and PS4 release dates, retailers have confirmed that the first next-gen games will go on sale weeks before the two consoles land.
With the eagerly awaited Call of Duty: Ghosts release set from November 5 for the current-gen Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles, Amazon has revealed that both the Xbox One and PS4 editions of the game will also be released that day, despite preceding the consoles by more than two weeks.
With the Xbox One release date penned in for November 22 and the UK PS4 release date lined up for seven days later on November 29, confirmation of next-gen games going on sale early will give avid gamers the chance to prepare for the net-gen launches ahead of time.
"Please Note: Your Xbox One/PS4 version of Call of Duty: Ghosts will be dispatched to arrive on Tuesday, November 5," retailer giant Amazon has stated on its Call of Duty: Ghosts sales pages. They add: "However you will not be able to play your game until you receive your console on Friday, November 22/Friday, November 29."
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As the famous line from The Devil Wears Prada goes, "Gird your loins!" The French government authorizes only two sales per year. No, I'm not kidding. Today was the first day (except for store cardholders who got to first pick over the past week). It can be an absolute madhouse. If one is serious about these sales, one is waiting at the door at 8 am. This year, I was not one of those people.
By the time I arrived mid-afternoon, the aisles were packed with shoppers. By the way, why are some rolling suitcases behind them? Does any one know? Are they buying so much? Some of the major couture houses had lines outside the door. Guess which line I was in?
As I expected, only very trendy/seasonal items had been marked down and the selection had been whittled down to the unappealing by the time I arrived. Even a discount isn't really a discount if you'll never, ever wear it. On a happier note, I did find some patent red Lanvin flats for 30% off at another store.
Now to figure out how to get that gorgeous box home in my already-overstuffed suitcase. The sales will run until July 31st, consisting almost entirely of the spring and summer items. In the meantime, the stock shrinks, the discounts get deeper, and lines start to put out their Fall 2012 merchandise to tempt you into paying full price for the newly-released items.