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Mix Extender with Blick Matte Acrylic Paint colors for better flow, especially for stroke work. Clear, non-yellowing, and resists chemicals, heat, and abrasion. Cleans easily with water. Plastic bottle.
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Excellent product but it should be shipped in s plastic bag
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A little goes a long way with the matte acrylics. It works well. The only problem was that the bottle was tossed in loose with other items and the movement in the box caused the seal come loose and it leaked on everything. Fortunately everything else was wrapped. I wouldnt pack any liquid for a trip in my suitcase the way this was packed--please put in in its own plastic bag and prevent it from rolling around! Thank you. By the way--I got got this order in record time. It usually takes things longer to get to me in Montana but I had it in less than a week, so that was good.
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I cover the canvas with the extender rather than mixing it with each color. It works for me!
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An artists nightmare turned into a dream come true. Car was acting up the show I was entered in was looming and I was out of matt, really out of matt.Your prompt reliable delivery left me with engouh time to finish the painting.Well like I said Too Good To Be True..On Friday April 15th,2016 My painting "Fowler's Wood's took Best In Show at the Elmhurst Artists Guild Spring Show.
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by drooooid, Apr 6, 2010.
where? lol
Yeah, that really ticked me off too the first time I tried to make a poll I posted up a blank space and lost all of my work
now it is posted
I wanted to be a rebal, so i clicked yes.
Duke nukem!!!!
Spelling rebel "rebal" wasn't enough? You need to calm down!
Well Son ova bitch, I didn't catch that.
This is pointless... Duke Nukem FTW!
I doubt that sprint will release the update by then but i put yes in hope of luck... lol
Well, bad (good) news for me. I have decided to switch over to the Hero. I'll be getting it as soon as it comes in stock down here. This phone has just been pissing me off royally with all the issues, namesay the radio lock ups. Sorry guys! I'll stop by to visit still though!
Right before we find out if 2.1 will fix those issues
Oh well, you were a great contributor (and funny!) and will be a great addition to the Hero forum. Good luck!
I'm telling ya... They don't have a date - but given that it is in internal testing (judging from the almost 3 weeks the TP2 update took) the 23-25th is looking really solid!
Bigger question is if the Hero's is coming this week!
Would you switch back to the Moment if the 2.1 update comes out before your 30 day grace period?
Here's one nugget to chew on:
Early Q2...typically means within the first half of April...some might even say the whole month of April still counts as "early". Once we get into May we are now in "Mid Q2". Once we get to June we are "Late Q2".
I think it's reasonable to believe we will get the update SOMETIME this month...although I would prefer it on the 9th
Voted for the Duke.
Well, honestly, I don't know that I'd switch back.. and I don't think I have a 30 day grace on this one, it's kind of under the wire from this awesome Sprint employee that's at our downtown repair center. He did something with activating this current refurb on another line, then deactivating my other one, then transferring the number over.
Not totally sure, but that's the jist of how I understood it. I'll keep a look out around here though... my father still has his Moment. Lol.


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ViewFlipper is an extension class of ViewAnimator, which animates between two or more views that have been added to it. Specfically, only one child is shown at a time. To get a better understanding, suppose that we have two TextViews that will be used in our app, but we want only one to be displayed at a time. That is, ...Read More »
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FrameLayout represents a simple layout for the user interface of Android applications. It is usually used for displaying single Views at a specific area on the screen or overlapping its child views. In our example we are going to show how you can add and handle FrameLayout in your application. For this tutorial, we will use the following tools in ...Read More »
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This past weekend my husband and I completely ran out of money. While I was crying myself to sleep over all the drama, I made a list of what we've been doing to stay poor for so long. I must really love scraping the bottom of the barrel to have spent so much time down here!
Besides, how can I STOP doing the same things over and over expecting different results (Albert Einstein's definition of insanity) unless I know what my stupid, 'same-things' are, right?
How I've learned to stay poor forever:
- We don't pay our bills on time very often. That'll teach 'em. Yep. Teach them to charge us lots of fees and interest!
- Instead we count on windfalls like birthday money from our Moms and our tax return (we get a BIG one because we have so many kids –like, 3 at home and 3 not at home, AND we're poor!)to catch up on bills. Then when our tax return is late, I wail and gnash my teeth at the injustice then beg our landlord to give us an extension on the rent.
- By all means necessary we avoid manual labor, babysitting or extra jobs.
- We've spent countless hours investigating the application requirements for government assistance. By now I can identify a public servants mistake on my food stamp application from a hundred yards away!
- We compliment ourselves on having no mortgage or credit cards, forgetting that it's because we have such crappy credit we won't be approved for such debt devices for at least another 10 years
- My husband (with my help!) wasted at least a year of time wondering what career to go into next after getting laid off from his last job. We were careful to stay on unemployment for as loooong as humanely possible, with NO plan for when it ran out.
- I've started a half dozen 'work at home opportunity's'–sinking hours and hours of time into pointless multi-level marketing schemes but then I never follow through after the shiny newness wears off.
- I've become a vicious second hand store and yard sale shopper. I tell myself that our kids are dressed as well as anyone else's—I can read labels and pick out quality stuff! But then again. I always spend much more than our clothing/msc. budget states—oh, just forget the budget. What's a budget? I go shopping at least once a week for fun! "Look Honey, this dress is only 3.99!!"
- I have a big dream but just add it up to silly fantasies so I won't have to make any realistic plans.
- Last but not least—I throw big, loud tantrums when we literally run out of money only to go out and celebrate a 'big' paycheck by going out to eat instead of paying bills.
I think I could go on for a lot longer, but you might be catching my drift. (Oh yeah— buy at least one Latte per day should go up there somewhere too.)
Our problem at the Adams Household (yes, our name—for real) is that we don't really believe we'll ever be anywhere but right here. Poor and happy, but sometimes terrified. Talk about depressing! I'm not exaggerating, much, when I say that we really do try to stay poor! Instead of climbing out of the hell-hole we just keep making a playground out of this stinky-bottom-of-the-barrel. We're hanging out in sh**t! (And we've been here for years!)
And this is why I'm writing this guest post for at least a zillion of you to read. I am determined to smell how stinky this is RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW so we can crawl on out one step at a time. The steps we need to take are sorta obvious, right?
My sexy as all get-out dreams:
- I wanna shop at real stores for my clothes instead of checking for cool labels at the 2nd hand store
- I want to buy a whole set of China that matches from somewhere besides Target
- I want to drive a cool car—like a uuhm Toyota Sienna with 4-wheel drive :) –that doesn't fall apart every time I open the driver's side door.
MOST of all, though, I am SICK of being poor. Bottom line? I've come through so much crap in other areas of my life—addiction, family trauma, crazy stress up the wazzoo—that I can't buy my own self-justifications any longer. I know I'm not meant to be wallowing around in way-too-comfy poverty forever. So, watch me! I'm getting OUT!
Editor's Note: Don't hate on my yard sales & thrift stores!! :)
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Discussion in 'Lawn Mowing' started by exmark user, Jan 16, 2011.
its in the food watch FOOD INC.
One of my many favorites is a customer who purchased a foreclosed house and we were doing a full clean up of the yard and re-constructing the front flower beds and landscape. When I wrote up the estimate we walked the property and she told me it was fine to removal all of the overgrown bushes and roto-till the front of the house. So we cleared the entire bed and neatly raked the soil even. She came home screaming out of control in here driveway asking where her pear tree was. I just said what are you talking about? The was only one tree in that bed and it was a eucalyptus tree about 3ft tall. She insisted there was a pear tree there and I kindly explained it was not a pear tree and it would just take over the bed. She refused to stop screaming until I dug the tree out of the truck and showed her it was not a pear tree. She then tried to tell me she wanted me to get her a pear tree and put it in free of charge for the inconvenience. I just found that part funny!
I posted this back in the fall, I had a customer I was doing leaves for. The customer wanted the leaves mulched not bagged, I had mulched leaves in the open parts of the yard. Then I was blowing leaves out of the beds and from under trees so I could go back over them and mulch the rest of the leaves. The lady came out tapped my shoulder and said I wanted my leaves mulched not blown into piles, I tried to explain I was just getting them in the open so I can mulch them with my mower but she just never got it. I dropped her I dont need someone telling me how to do leaves at least wait till im done then complain if your not happy dont look at the job half way through.
i had the same thing happen to me here in mn in 08. the guy was pharm. rep. said he was divorced now living with his young gf who had kids. i thought the guy would never shut up. sent the bills, sent the bills, sent the bills. finally someone else was mowing. so i was like what the f. so i call him. he doesnt know me, or remember telling me all his personal stuff. then said his realiter set things up. I said but you set stuff with me also and mowed x times. I fibbed him and said i had a signed contract from him. got a check 3 days later with a note attached saying he shouldnt be paying for something he never agreed to. sometimes i wonder how some people seem to exist they are so bone headed.
I passed out fliers stating $25 a cut or a 38 cut a yr plan $80 a month. Had a couple of ppl call an say thats $80 for the whole yr for 38 cuts? lol..
I had a customer answer the door in underwear only before. It sucked because it was a dude and he still didn't have my money.
I lost a customers phone number once and had to go by her house and get it. I got there and she said "Sweetie you could have just called me and got that". And she was a teacher, scary.
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the sadest thing thats ever happened to me. I just cut a yard, the lady next door came out. An older lady looked all there very nice. She asked if i worked for the guy that cuts her lawn. I said no. She said her dog died 2 yrs ago and was buried in the back yard and she could hear him barking..And asked if i would dig him up to make sure he was dead..I didnt..I talked to her lawn guy and she has got him to dig up and rebury the dog before. So sad. God please if i get like that take me. amen!
Oh my gosh, this is EPICALLY funny!! This is one of the funniest things I have read on Lawnsite!! I'm sure it probably wasn't funny at the time, but..........
Sorry man, just ribbin ya. Still hilarious though......... I'm still laughing out loud, and my dog is looking at me funny since nobody else is home........
You're killin' me here!!
lol lol lol
I also mow a yard and the clients have a one eyed Golden Lab in the back yard. One day I was going into the back yard and he shot out of the gate. I chased him about a half mile round trip, we both almost got hit by a car. I ended up getting him back in the front yard and throwing a stick into the backyard gate and he "retrieved" it. I should have thought of that first.
One other time I mowed the wrong yard. It was ayard my friend was cutting and he decided to stop in that area because he had lack of yards there. In the same subdivision there is a Woodgate Pl and a Woodgate Dr. I was supposed to be going to Woodgate Pl. but I didn't make it. I mowed the yard a lil old lady came out and said I wasn't the guy that normally cut. She said where is Ryan. I told her my name is Chris Ryan and I was the guy...... Then it sunk in I was at the wrong place. Not my proudest moment, but funny now looking back. She offered to pay and I told her no then she made me take it because it looked good.


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Four-star athlete prospect Malachi Lewis (6-3, 215, 4.48) from Oxnard (Calif.) Rio Mesa has played this season with a big bull's eye on his jersey. Every team he has faced this season have been fired up to stop Lewis and still he has been instrumental in leading his team to a 5-1 record.
"Malachi is having a good year though he's not getting the stats that he had last year," Rio Mesa coach Bob Gregorchuk said. "That his numbers are down was to be expected because every opposing defense are primed to stop him."
"We have been able to use him as a decoy and that has helped us average over 100 yards rushing per game," Gregorchuk said. "We have also been able to use him catching the ball out of the backfield more this season."
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"Malachi has eight receptions this season for 242 yards," Gregorchuk said. "He is averaging 30.3 yards per catch with a long of 91 yards and two touchdowns."
"Malachi still has a nose for the end zone," Gregorchuk said. "When we're in the red zone we give him the ball and he scores."
So far in 2006, Lewis has rushed for 469 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Though his numbers are not as a gaudy, so far, as they were his junior season, that fact hasn't slowed down his recruitment one bit.
"We have at least two coaches come to our school every Friday," Gregorchuk said. "It seems whoever is playing UCLA or USC makes it up to our campus. UCLA was at our game a couple of weeks ago and they are now talking to him."
"I don't think Malachi has set up any visits yet," Gregorchuk said. "He's going to wait until after the season and he's keeping an open mind."
As a junior, Lewis carried the ball a workman like 306 times for 2,187 yards and 24 touchdowns. His long run was a 75-yarder and he averaged 7.1 yards per carry. He also played a little defense racking up 15 tackles and one pick.
Lewis saw his performance earn him first-team all-CIF, all-county, all-league and League Player of the Year. He was second-team all-state underclassman and second-team super-CIF.
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From my current "Weapons of Mass Imagination's series: Working on the north shore of my small island in an old factory in an undisclosed location, recreating early "Russian Space Guns", Rocket Ships, and Zeppelin's. In complete secrecy with the aide of two retired Russian Rocket Scientists sent over directly from Keiv.Each design is being carefully recreated in exact detail true to its original design. With a few original blue prints and some very old black and white photos that the Russian government has saved the work goes on slow but very well. This is a top-secret project so little else is currently available concerning this on going event.


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La Favorita
Apartment with 2 bathrooms in Massa Lubrense, Italy
Booking cost: £0.00
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Apartment to rent in Massa Lubrense, Italy
Apartment overview - owner's description
La Favorita is an apartment on the ground floor of a modern villa in the vicinity of the little town of Sant Agata sui due Golfi. This is a very convenient choice for anyone who not only wishes to v
La Favorita is an apartment on the ground floor of a modern villa in the vicinity of the little town of Sant Agata sui due Golfi. This is a very convenient choice for anyone who not only wishes to visit the Sorrento peninsula, but also thinks of extending their excursions to the Amalfi coast. Lovers of walking have at their disposal a network of footpaths of varying difficulty which offer breathtaking panoramic views over the sea. Guests can enjoy the use of a fine garden, with greenery and flowers in pots, where they can sunbathe or cool off under the outdoor shower. There is also a shady terrace fully equipped with table and chairs for dining in the open air. A car is recommended and there is a reserved parking space outside the villa. The bus stop is only about 300 metres away, so that it is also possible to get around using public transport. The apartment has wi fi internet connection.
ACCOMMODATION: (90m2) Gr. fl.: very bright living/dining room with single sofa bed, direct access to the terrace and to the garden and kitchenette (oven, freezer, dishwasher, microwave, kettle, toaster, coffee machine), 1 double bedroom (160 cm bed) with bathroom with shower (hairdryer), 1 twin-bedded room (80 cm beds) and direct access to the garden, 1 single bedroom (80 cm bed), 1 bathroom with bath (hairdryer). Access to the laundry room (washing machine, iron and ironing board) from the garden.
LOCATION: 1.5 km Sant Agata sui due golfi, 13 km Sorrento, 18 km Positano, 31 km Amalfi, 38 km Ravello, 59 km Naples.Please note that all extra costs must be paid in Euro on the spot
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Outside this apartment in Massa Lubrense, ItalyThis apartment is near the sea. Car hire is necessary as the renter will need a car to get about for shopping, eating out and the beach; however parking is available if required.
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£177.41 per booking, paid locally
Final cleaning per booking in cash
£62.09 per booking, paid locally
Heating per m3 (cubic meter) upon consumption
per m3 (cubic meter) upon consumption, paid locally
Tourist tax per person/day
per person/day, paid locally
Cook (must be requested at booking time)
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2 bathrooms
Central heating, Clothes drier, Iron / board, Towels / linen, Washing machine, Car hire essential
Cooker, Crockery, Cutlery, Dishwasher, Fridge, Freezer, Glassware, Kettle, Microwave, Oven, Pots / pans, Toaster
Agency From Colle Di Val D'elsa, Italy Member since Mar 2013
Past bookings: 13 bookings
Response rate: 85%
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GLASGOW could become the biggest ice hockey town in the UK thanks to a state-of-the-art new arena.
That is the vision of Braehead Clan chief Gareth Chalmers as he plots taking the EIHL club to even greater heights in the year ahead.
Clan are only in their seventh season but are already regularly playing to bumper crowds inside the Braehead Arena on a weekly basis, but a planning application is still being considered to build a new venue next to their current home that would see capacity soar from 3500, to potentially 8500.
The current arena at Braehead during a Clan home game. Picture: Al Goold.
Doing that would propel Clan to become one of the league's big hitters, and Chalmers exclusively told the Sport Times he has no fears about the organisation stepping up to the challenge of almost doubling their home gate.
"We are in contact with the senior Intu management quite a lot about this," said the Clan hockey and operations director. "These things take time.
"There is red tape to go through and we are now waiting. I know the management team are quite keen to push things forward. We are hoping it will be sooner rather than later so we can push on and compete against the top clubs.
"I still think this is potentially the biggest ice hockey market in the UK. The growth over the last five years has been very good and it's taken a lot of people by surprise.
"We will have to employ extra staff but everything we have done so far has worked. Now we need to take that into the new building, do it bigger and better and I'm certain we'll get the bums on seats. Im certain of that."
New design for the arena
Original proposals had the new arena, which will sit beside a new hotel, to be completed by 2020. However, given the protracted nature of the consultation process, it's unclear if that timeframe is still achievable.
Until them, Chalmers insists the organisation remain realistic about the progress they can make in a progressively more challenging league in terms of revenue.
He explained: "Our playing budget has gone up by about 20 per cent and we've only been able to do that because we've increased revenues. The fans have supported us. We are still very positive about the rest of the season.
"We have a solid business plan which is growing season on season it's just unfortunately we've reached a point now where it is stagnating because we can't grow any bigger.
"It's just down to bums on seats. We've maxed things out and when you have Belfast, Sheffield and Nottingham all getting double the attendances, that makes it difficult to keep up.
"You then add in the fact that Cardiff are getting free venue rental, that puts them £100,000s ahead of us. That's creating a situation where we are struggling to keep up, so we have to be realistic but also creative. From a budget perspective we are probably fifth or sixth in the league."
Plans show the large dome that will feature next to Intu Braehead shopping centre.
It is believed the introduction of Milton Keynes Lightning next year will see the scrapping of the conference system, a current set-up that arguably favours Clan as they face the four big hitters of Sheffield, Nottingham, Belfast and Cardiff less.
Despite that, Chalmers is still optimistic silverware can be achievable.
"The message is still positive," he said, "if we get our recruitment right we can surprise teams.
"We now have to win something. From the ownership down we all want it, we just need to realise season on season it's more difficult. That's why we are desperate for that building to happen."


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Frontiers of Information Technology (2011)
Islamabad, Pakistan
Dec. 19, 2011 to Dec. 21, 2011
pp: 154-160
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/FIT.2011.36
Web caching and web prefetching are major areas of research. Both techniques are used for locating resources local to the user. The prefetching techniques make use of probability and statics for the availability of web document local to the user. This research focused on invention of model technique that provides resources local for the users. This method's results are compared for optimizes resources in web prefetching. The mechanism proposed for the prefetching document will extract the resources and make an easy access of resources for users.
Predictive, Prefetching, Optimization
Naveed Ahmad, Faiza Bibi, Azam Khan, "Optimizing Predictive Prefetching in Multi-client Single-Server Environment", Frontiers of Information Technology, vol. 00, no. , pp. 154-160, 2011, doi:10.1109/FIT.2011.36


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Rostrvm welcomes Scott Brooker
Scott Brooker has joined us as Business Development Manager and is looking forward to meeting you to explain our products and services.
Scott Brooker has joined us as Business Development Manager and is looking forward to meeting you to explain our products and services.
Continuing our blogs on reaching and delighting customers, we focus on how you can improve their experience of your contact centre. Ken Reid, Director of Proposition and Product, has some ideas.
In the first of our new blogs on reaching and delighting customers, Ken Reid – Director of Proposition and Product, explains how modern outbound dialler technology can reap benefits all round.
To reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve the customer experience of your contact centre, tackle how your staff use your systems and optimise desktops.
Efficient performance management is the glue that holds your contact centre together; without it you'll very quickly come unstuck with customers who expect fast results, often on a variety of channels.
Your inbound contact is from people who want or need to contact you and how you respond to them can make or break your reputation and business. Providing a great customer experience inbound is crucial.
Do you use outbound as a proactive, well-planned service that customers appreciate? Modern diallers can be set using intelligence gained about a contact to Precision dial, reaching them at the right time and reducing your agents' workload.
Providing customers with a great experience starts with having a terrific working environment for contact centre staff, so they have all the tools and motivation to serve people well.
How do you consistently provide clients with a good experience on their 'customer journey'? We start a series of blogs on this subject with a look at INTEGRATION of systems and processes. This is the key and without it, everything falls apart and no one is happy. Here are five common issues:
rostrvm for Collections is deployed by a wide range of organisations including utilities, local authorities and housing associations. Using proactive contact strategies they are able to meet debt management, customer acquisition and service interactions goals efficiently and more productively.
We've had an exciting few weeks with our Partners and Resellers, telling them how rostrvm can help to get engaged with new opportunities, drive incremental business and improve margins. Not able to make our sessions? Don't worry, we are running them again.
We welcome back to our team Naila Basit, who returns from maternity leave and is now a proud Mum to a baby boy.
Many of our customers are enjoying the benefits of poweredbyrostrvm – our cloud service which combines all the flexibility of rostrvm with the agility of cloud. Here's a quick update on what it could do for your business.
rostrvm can be quickly and easily integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM using our standard connector to provide a fast, effective joined-up system for your contact centre.
rostrvm can be integrated with Salesforce to get the most out of your customer data with all the enterprise features of our call handling and contact centre software – it's quick and easy to do using our standard connectors and desktop tools.
Rostrvm Solutions has been named as one of the Top 10 companies in Call Centre Helper's 'Top 10 Contact Centre Technology awards'. Ken Reid, one of our directors, said: 'To put that into context, if you Google 'Contact Centre Technology' you get over 54 million results. Readers of Call Centre Helper have voted for rostrvm
In an earlier blog we explained how rostrvm works with Skype for Business; that's because of its flexibility. In fact, rostrvm will overlay almost any communications infrastructure to give you and your customers a great experience.
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) has been around for many years now and it can be really valuable support for both customers and the contact centre but the key is to ensure that it's implemented well, designed around your customers' needs and supports your specific business aims.
We're pleased to announce that rostrvm is on the shortlist for Call Centre Helper's 2017 'Top 10 Contact Centre Technology' awards. The awards give recognition to the best products on the market and are voted for by readers of CallCentreHelper.com. In March their website had 237,174 readers (visitors), so that's a prestigious number available to vote.
At each month end do you have a detailed record at hand on your contact centre's performance? Can you make informed decisions about where you need to make changes and improvements? Do you survey customers so that you know what they think? Our rostrvm suite includes performance management facilities so that you can assess every
We're delighted to announce that Adam Cohen has been appointed as a Sales Support Consultant at Rostrvm Solutions. If you're an existing customer of ours you may well recognise Adam as he started out in the call centre division of Royal Blue as a programmer, before becoming Support Manager at Rostrvm
Skype for Business provides a powerful, unified communications platform connecting people across disparate locations and multiple media from their PC, phone, browser and tablets. It lets you collaborate with anyone, anywhere. The contact centre is a complex and structured business environment with specific operational and cultural needs and "Skype support" can mean many things.
We've been using our knowledge and experience gained from over 30 years in the contact centre industry to develop dynamic applications suitable for specific industry needs. If you're wondering how flexible we are, here's an example: The social housing sector is now using rostrvm technology to reap big benefits when tackling the seismic changes brought
This year saw rostrvm reach its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion we're sharing 30 tips for contact centre success.
You know your customers, right? This year has thrown up some rather potent examples of what happens when this isn't the case.
After waiting nearly a year for Ofcom to release their updated dialler policy they decided to let us have the glad tidings yesterday – Merry Christmas one and all!
Getting your contact centre ready for Christmas? Here's our festive checklist!
Matt Slaney has joined Rostrvm Solutions as a Software Developer. He previously worked in support, testing, development and data migration in a blue-chip company. Matt's focus at Rostrvm will be the continued development of the rostrvm Manager web application, which is right within his skillset.
Precision Contact gives you the optimum chance of reaching your customers because you contact them: at the right time – the best time to catch them; with the right message and channel; using the right people – making sure your contact is handled by appropriately-skilled advisors.
You may have the best data-cleansing system and the most up-to-date records on your customers in town but are you using this intelligence in your contact with them to maximise success?
The financial benefits The beauty of cloud is that there's no expensive outlay – and no sizeable maintenance and upgrade costs. The core infrastructure – telephone lines, internet services, servers and network equipment – are provided and managed by the cloud service provider. This reduces significantly the start-up costs and implementation time, so Return on
Rostrvm is celebrating 30 successful years in the contact centre industry and we've been involved with many changes and innovations over that time. The biggest, of course, is the internet and digital-based services such as the Cloud. Following on from our last blog about replacing or upgrading outdated systems, the natural question for contact centres
Contact centre agents and their customers hate slow, outdated systems. So why do some contact centres insist on keeping them? Flog a dead horse and you get tired and frustrated but there's still no way that horse is going to move!
To solve a contact centre issue talk to the people 'at the coalface', who are often the agents/advisors. Sounds obvious but in hectic business environments it doesn't always happen.
Have you noticed how the contact centre industry uses a lot of jargon and long ways of saying the same thing? We've introduced our new blogs – 'Straight talking', based on our 30 years' experience in the field, which tell you briefly what you really need to know to run a successful contact centre operation.
We're pleased to announce that Tom Nicholls has joined our sales team as a Business Development Manager. Tom says, "I'm delighted to be working at Rostrvm because we have products which are truly flexible to suit the needs of the customer. rostrvm can be implemented on site or in the cloud and its products are
The robust rostrvm Cloud Contact Centre Service from Rostrvm Solutions is now available on the Digital Marketplace, through the government's G-Cloud framework. You can find it in the Software as a Service (SaaS) category. Rostrvm Solutions' software has been used successfully by household names in the private and public sector for many years. The beauty
We are pleased to announce that Rostrvm Solutions is now a member of the Housing Quality Network – Rent and Income Excellence Network. (RIEN) RIEN support income management and rent collection practitioners in the social housing sector. We are delighted to support RIEN and their members by sharing our ideas for best practice on income
One of the central challenges for outbound campaigns is making contact with your audience at a time that suits them. We've added an Interactive Voice Messaging (IVM) module to the rostrvm Outbound suite. IVM complements live agent contact strategies – such as predictive dialler campaigns – with an automated message inviting the recipient to enter
We're at the IT in Housing Exhibition for those involved in the provision of social housing. You'll be able to learn about rostrvm for Housing, our proactive contact solution specifically for the Housing sector to address the financial challenges created by Universal Credit (UC) and Welfare Reform.
The importance of recording telephone calls for compliance and quality monitoring purposes is well understood. But in today's multichannel contact centre a 'conversation' can meander from one medium to another – web chat to email to telephone call and back again, making it harder to record. We've enhanced our recording system rostrvm AuditLog to capture
This year we're celebrating 30 years of the rostrvm contact centre software suite. Here we take a look back over some of the milestones.
Season's greetings from Rostrvm Solutions
The latest rostrvm release provides our users with a key new feature to keep their customers happy – Precision skills-based dialling. Skills-based dialling adds to the armoury of precision tools available already to the campaign designer and dialler manager using rostrvm.
In the last of our series of blogs on 'Making life easy for your customers' we look at performance management.
Have you noticed how everybody's talking about omnichannel? It's a big buzzword at the moment in the contact centre industry.
This series of blogs has been focusing on how to make things easier for customers and provide a fast and seamless service. One of the biggest obstacles to achieving this for many businesses is trying to work efficiently with a mixture of legacy IT, newer architecture and existing processes. This is particularly evident on the
Continuing our series of blogs looking at how customers' lives can be made easy we consider outbound contact. Before you provide an outbound service to your customers ensure that it will improve your relationship with them. Because outbound contact should be about making it effortless and easy for customers.
Continuing our series of blogs looking at how customers' lives can be made easy using all areas of the contact centre, including Inbound, Outbound, Desktop Optimisation and Managing Performance. Save customers from 'repeat street' and being passed around the contact centre.
In this series of blogs we look at how customers' lives can be made easy using all areas of the contact centre, including Inbound, Outbound, Desktop Optimisation and Managing Performance. Deal with those massive queues to get through!
At the recent Customer Contact EXPO in London, many people seemed to be stating the obvious – that today's customers expect their dealings with contact centres to be easy.
As part of its continued growth Rostrvm Solutions is pleased to welcome Matt Ryan to its Support team.
Is income the heart of your organisation? rostrvm for Housing is a proactive contact solution specifically for the Housing sector to address the financial challenges created by Universal Credit (UC)
Rostrvm Solutions has developed a specialist outbound and inbound contact centre solution for landlords. This is particularly relevant as the roll-out of Universal Credit (UC) to replace Housing Benefit will mean that landlords will have to chase their tenants on UC for payment of rent.
We're delighted to welcome Dr Matt North PhD, MPhil, BSc (hons.), who has joined our Research & Development team as a developer and mentor.
Transforming customer service delivery 12th March, The Studio, Manchester Following our successful bid at one of the top Housing and Care Associations in the UK; Rostrvm Solutions is proud to be sponsoring the Northern Housing Consortium – Customer Contact Centres Conference.
From 6 April the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) no longer has to prove that cold calls or nuisance text messages caused "substantial damage or substantial distress" before they can impose fines of up to £500,000 on companies. It will be down to the ICO to decide when a serious contravention has taken place.
Have you heard about poweredbyrostrvm – the hosted contact centre service delivered in the cloud by Rostrvm Solutions? Whatever your customer contact challenges you can use poweredbyrostrvm to become the contact centre you need to be.
Another thing for you to think about this year is the change in call charges that come into play soon.
Predictive dialler use is regulated by Ofcom. The policy and regulations are kept under review and last autumn Ofcom asked for input from the industry.
The most popular areas of our web site are the Planning tools and the Rules of thumb. These sections deliver free advice for anyone planning to start a new contact service or enhance a call centre.
In recent months we've seen 2 apparently contradictory themes – "I want my call centre to be easy to use with agents working from anywhere" and "I'm worried about security and need to lock down the call centre technology".
Customers want to be able to get in touch and they don't want to get stuck in the usual IVR system, wading through lengthy menu options or 'speaking' to a voice recognition system that refuses to understand,
This quiet period between Christmas and New Year is a great time to contemplate what you have told us in our conversations and rostrvm Prophet consulting reviews and to make your plans for 2015. The cloud contact centre is a recurring theme.
We wish you a great Christmas and a cracking 2015.
The Telemarketing team at Heritage Health, a private medical insurance broker, have generated some 60% increase in customer "Transfers" since using the poweredbyrostrvm cloud contact centre service. Emerson Peacey, Managing Director at Heritage Health, says, "We offer UK Private Medical plans, International Medical Insurance for expatriates and specially-designed schemes for individuals, groups and businesses. With poweredbyrostrvm
Rostrvm Solutions, the customer service hub software provider, has teamed up with Pythagoras to provide flexible contact centre and desktop software that's integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Aston Villa Football Club's Consumer Sales Department, which is supported by technology from Rostrvm Solutions, has won the 'Best use of Technology' category at the Midlands Contact Centre Forum Awards Programme.
If you're using Microsoft Dynamics and are looking for a high-performing contact centre/desktop solution, we're pleased to announce that MS Dynamics CRM can now be integrated with rostrvm.
Nick Darke has joined Rostrvm Solutions, the contact centre software developer, as a Business Development Manager. He will be instrumental in accelerating the company's growth through spreading the word about Rostrvm's innovative products.
This month, Oscar Rickett of The Guardian wrote an article which suggested that: 'Customer service is becoming more Kafkaesque by the day, with rounds of Muzak, the endless repeating of your name, address, birth date and maybe name of a childhood pet, the name of the street you grew up on …' It rightly stated
Rostrvm Solutions sponsored the Dynamic Scripting & the Unified Desktop chapter of ContactBabel's recently published UK Contact Centre Decision-Maker's Guide 2014.
When we visited the recent 2014 Customer Contact EXPO at Olympia, London, speakers were focusing on how to achieve good service and value at EVERY customer touchpoint. With customers using everything from mobile, to email to webchat to communicate with contact centres and expecting a fast and helpful response, speakers concluded that technology should play
Having a multichannel environment can involve several departments – IT, marketing, corporate – not just the contact centre. Consistency can only be achieved if everyone involved is briefed properly and methods and processes are integrated. This may sound obvious but it doesn't always happen. The organisational structure, responsibilities and required skills needed should be considered
You may have heard about the outrage caused in the past week when a mobile phone company introduced a new charge for contacting its call centre. Basically it's offering customers the choice of paying an extra 50p to skip the queue when calling customer service.
Providing scripts to your contact centre team to base their conversations with customers around can really boost their performance in a variety of situations and ensure compliance – and not just during training. Scripts can also help to achieve higher first call resolution rates; a well-informed customer service advisor who is confident about how to
The latest edition of our customer newsletter is available. We look at the latest rostrvm release which incorporates multi channel features including a suite of Email Supervisor reports allowing call centre managers to better understand service level delivery in the email channel.
Our latest system update (rostrvm 9.2) adds support for Windows 2012 server.
The direct marketing industry contributes financially to the economy and UK call centres alone employ more than 1 million people. Direct marketing techniques are used by numerous companies to generate business and good campaigns can help consumers find the best deal and the most suitable product for their needs. An outbound live marketing call is
Your contact centre's purpose has changed from transactional activity to an environment where your customers can contact you for a wide range of reasons and through a variety of communication channels – you can talk to your clients on the phone, by email, text message, chat, social media … the list goes on.
Gales, floods, illness … disruptions to daily life this winter have massively impacted contact centres, some of which are struggling to cope. Call volumes have rocketed – and so have customer complaints, which have become increasingly vocal, through the use of social media.
You've seen our website………… You've followed our posts on Twitter………… Now you can follow our "Pins" as Rostrvm has now joined Pinterest.
After a period in an interim role Mike Boyle has joined us permanently as Operations & Service Manager.
The contact centre's purpose has changed from transactional activity to one where your customers can contact you for a wide range of reasons and through a variety of communication channels – you can talk to your clients on the phone, by email, text message, chat, social media … the list goes on.
The use of social media in the contact centre has been on everyone's radar for a long time and as our research shows social media in the contact centre is starting to happen.
As simple customer transactions shift channels to self-service your contact centre "conversations" – phone calls, emails, text messages…. – become more complex with an ever-increasing proliferation of systems used by the agents to complete the activity.
One thing that we know for certain is that predictive dialler use will continue be a focus for Ofcom and the Information Commissioner's Office; this will drive predictive dialler users to look again at the dialler's role in customer relationship management.
In this short series of articles we will be looking at 4 customer contact trends that we expect to see taking centre stage during 2014. We'll be going into more detail and pointing you to supporting materials and tools over the coming days but in summary we expect to see: The continued transition from 'blind'
Season's greetings from Rostrvm Solutions
rostrvm 9.1 includes support for user applications such as rostrvm AdVisor , CallGuide and ControlCentre on Microsoft Windows 8 desktops.
rostrvm 9.1 is now available with extended features including a new tool to simplify the creation and management of CallGuide and DeskTop scripts allowing them to be constructed as a graphical flow diagram.
Here at Rostrvm Solutions we are committed to developing strong strategic alliances with partners who provide complementary products and services that differ from our core offering.
Our latest newsletter is available. As call centres come under increasing scrutiny we look at the tools and resources that can help with predictive dialler performance.
Rostrvm Solutions, customer service hub software designer and developer for the contact centre and back office, is expanding. You may hear new voices on the phone as it has recently appointed two new telesales executives, Simon Gaut and Naila Khan to its growing team. Simon Gaut previously spent five years working in a contact centre,
Some users of the iPhone version of our Call Centre Calculator app reported operational problems using the tool with new and updated iPhones. A new version is now available to support iOS 7. Expect to receive notification from the App Store.
Our latest newsletter has been published delivering multi channel contact answers.
Since we published our research into Desktop Applications & Social Media we have seen increased interest in multi-channel contact centre operations – integrating emails and social media with established telephone customer service.
The contact centre has a long history of managing and measuring activity and rostrvm is a leader in providing facilities to support this key aspect of delivering excellent customer service. We know that providing great customer service needs to happen outside the contact centre too. Whilst all contact centres measure performance, many back office operations
Microsoft Lync delivers a unified communications environment, connecting people across different locations and multiple media from their PC, phone, browser and tablets. The rostrvm suite of applications complements Lync to provide a comprehensive, purpose- designed platform for contact centre operations.
One particular issue that affects all parts of a business is managing multiple IT applications on the desktop.


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Typical day trips are to Versaille and Monet's home, Giverny. Chartres cathedral another.
Let me be the first to say that you won't run out of things to do in a week though! My husband and I stayed 2 weeks in Paris and took two bus trips with Cityrama: one to Bruges and one to Loire Valley chateaux. Each was a long day but enjoyable.
What types of things do you like to do/see?
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You will be amazed at spending that entire time in Paris. We have done it often and still didn't have time to do Versailles or Giverney, but those are worthy day trips.
You could go to Chartres for the day also, as suggested.
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There's so much to do in Paris that 1 week is hardly enough. I think you should stay there for the week.
But if you do want to leave it's best to go to another destination first since you're flying home from Paris plus the first day is often a loss if you're on a overnight flight.
Since you say you don't want to spend the whole time in Paris I'm interpreting that to mean you want at least an overnight elsewhere. My suggestion:
Bruges for something completely different from Paris yet not too far away.
You're overwhelmed because you have too short a time for Paris yet you want to leave for another location or two. If you would focus only on the top things you want to see in Paris then the trip would come more into focus.
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Sounds as if this is your first visit to Paris. If that's the case don't cheat yourself... a week is hardly enough. Don't go elsewhere unless it's a day trip to Versailles, Giverny, Chartres etc. Less is more. ;^)
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I agree with the others - just do a day trip - - maybe to Versailles or Giverny.
You might also enjoy going to Champagne country for a tour.
We went to Ruinart in Reims and loved it. There is plenty to enjoy in Reims. Beautiful Cathedral and Champagne houses. It is about an hour train ride.
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It's your trip, a lot of people don't want to spend one week in a city and not see something else, I often don't.
YOu could go to Reims, Strasbourg, Dijon or Lyon easily by train in a few hours for a change, if you want. Those are cities, also, of course. I think you can even take the train from Lyon direct to CDG airport upon leaving, so that would be convenient.
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a lot of suggestions in France. You can also do a high speed train to London.
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We have been to Paris six times (many who post here have been there even more often), the last four times for a whole month in an apartment, and we still have many things left on our "to do next time" list.
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Thank you all so much!! I think we've decided to stay the week in Paris and if so choose, perhaps decide on a day trip once we are there. Now...suggestions on place to stay??
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If you're talking about Oct., 2013, you'd better get going with reservations asap as it is a busy time, not "low season" at all. I've had my Oct. hotel reservations since May. Before anyone can give you recommendations, we'd need to know what price range you're thinking about, hotel or apartment, any other info that could help narrow it down.
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I'm surprised. I would not have thought October to be a busy time. We could not book any further in advance since I am meeting my hubby there. He is in the army and is currently in Pakistan. We had to wait until we got the go-ahead from the powers that be to plan our trip. That being said, our price range would probably be upto $150/night, could possibly go a bit higher. I think I would prefer an apartment, walking distance to "stuff" since my children and I will be arriving a day sooner than my husband. I'm also a bit nervous of finding transportation from the airport our accommodations.
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The Paris Fashion Show is at that time I think - anyway another awesome day trip is to Reims to visit the world-famous cathedral, a sweet regional town and especially tour the famous prestigious Champagne factories and their caves to see how the bubbly is produced and then to sample some in the tasting rooms. Major Champagne houses are a site in themselves - some of the caves are veritable art museums.
Reims is under an hour away by high-speed trains - you also get the chance to bullet along on TGVs at nearly 200 mph to get there. And there is also the Word War 2 War Room, in an old school where the Allied generals plotted the final assault on Germany - war maps still grace the walls and name plates the long tables.
I disagree that you should spend all five days in Paris - do at least one day trip to see the REAL France like in Reims or Chartres!
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Even without children and luggage, I always suggest a cab. It's just easiest.
That being said, we took an airport bus one time that stopped at Arc de Triomphe and Montparnasse Station. We stayed at a Hilton there but I can't remember the price now.
If you google apartments near either of those places, you should find things in your range.
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How nice your husband can come from his post in Pakistan to meet you and your children in Paris. How many children do you have and what are their ages?
I think an apartment would be the best accommodation for you all, but your $150 budget does present a challenge as that would be around €113 per night.
Another thing to look into would be if any of the American chain hotels offer Military/Government rates like they do in the US.
Give us some more information to get more specific hotel or apartment suggestions.
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Great point, MaineGG about American chains offering Military rates.
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I've been looking at some apartments that are listed for $1100-$1500/week. I would like a one bedroom with sleeping for my two children age 13 & 15. I am a little hesitant however, since I'm not sure what would be a good area and what wouldn't be.
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Arrondisements 1-8 are generally the areas of central Paris. You might like to look in 5 or 6 which are a little more lively and could interest your kids more.
DO take a taxi to wherever you are staying and just get a bit of stress off the front end of the trip. Print out the address and a little map to hand to the taxi driver--it will probably be about 50E. Go to the taxi queue and the taxi guy will get you a cab.
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Thank you Gretchen, that is very helpful!
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You will find that a good guidebook is a huge help in planning activities. I especially like the Michelin Green Guide to Paris and the Eyewitness Guide, both of which have recommended sightseeing itineraries by neighborhood.
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I can heartily recommend www.vrbo.com/58971 at 1300 euro/week, a bit over budget but great location (6th arrondissement), secure, quiet yet in vibrant part of Paris. I see on calendar that it is available one week in Oct.; don't know if that would coincide with your plans.
Have a wonderful time; what a special trip this will be for you and your family.
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I second Underhill's suggestions for the same reason.
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We stayed in the 2nd because apartments there were half the price and it worked out great. We're a walking family and we could walk almost everywhere and take the metro easily when we needed to. I'd point you to our apartment but it's no longer available for rent.
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Here is the part of the trip report that starts in Paris, so you can see what we did during our week there: http://rovingrichards.com/travel/france-2012/paris/
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So much great advice! Thank you all!
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November 18th, 2002, 11:59 AM #1
With all the complaining going on about some programs, I just want to tell everybody what a wonderful program Vermont Country Store has!
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I just wanted to let you know about a problem that has come to light here at The Vermont Country Store.
In the last couple of weeks, we have had a few files with sales data not going over to Be Free as expected. A couple of times we were able to send a fix-file, but the problem kept happening. It is an issue involving our service provider and their transfer of sales data to Be Free and we are working hard at solving this problem.
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I also like the program. Just started making some sales with them. They have lots of neat products not found elsewhere.
Would be very nice if they would allow for some cookie days, though, in order to promote their higher priced items more.
November 21st, 2002, 11:57 AM #3
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November 22nd, 2002, 01:38 PM #4
They are just an ultra cool merchant, very much like Cracker Barrel if you are familiar with them. I have steady sales there. Not HUGE sales but they have great stuff, excellent customer service, and no... I am nothing more than an affiliate either [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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No, I'm not an ad for them. I'm just an affiliate like everybody else. They are just one of the only two programs at BF that I'm still working with, and I just thought they deserved to be talked about because they do do such an outstanding job.
I have two pages at my site that feature their products, which tie-in well with the subject of my site. However, they have tons more stuff in other areas that I don't promote because they don't tie-in well.
I'm not making a fortune. I've been onboard with them since January, and at 10%, I've earned $149.11 to date. The nice thing is that they do pay promptly. I usually qualify for the $25 monthly minimum every other month.
Eventually, I hope to expand my site into other areas, and when I do, their other products will be the first to be featured.
All I'm saying is that Vermont Country Store is an example of how an affiliate program should be managed.
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December 15th, 2002, 10:58 AM #6
It's good to hear about a positive merchant out there. Let me guess...I'll bet they even manage to post sales promptly, too. Maybe some others need to take a lesson from them.
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