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"The Radleys have secrets like other families, and one in particular that will rip your throat out. Matt Haig puts a wicked British twist on suburban family drama. Wry and racy, with the right fire in the blood to keep you turning pages late into the night, The Radleys is a story about a family tearing things apart. Come closer, there's something you need to see here!"
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One night, Clara finds herself driven to commit a shocking--and disturbingly satisfying--act of violence, and her parents are forced to explain their history of shadows and lies. A police investigation is launched that uncovers a richness of vampire history heretofore unknown to the general public. And when the malevolent and alluring Uncle Will, a practicing vampire, arrives to throw the police off Clara's trail, he winds up throwing the whole house into temptation and turmoil and unleashing a host of dark secrets that threaten the Radleys' marriage.
"The Radleys "is a moving, thrilling, and radiant domestic novel that explores with daring the lengths a parent will go to protect a child, what it costs you to deny your identity, the undeniable appeal of sin, and the everlasting, iridescent bonds of family love. Read it and ask what we grow into when we grow up, and what we gain--and lose--when we deny our appetites.


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Anexa FVC Te Aroha has three vets, specialising in dairy and drystock production animals along with small animals.
Being a mixed animal clinic we carry a huge range of products related to both large and small animal clients. Whether it's a worm treatment for a beloved companion animal or a 200 litre drum of Molasses we either have it on hand or we will have it in store for you within 24 hours. In our retail area you'll find a broad range of premium petfoods, toys and other animal care products for both large and small animals
We are located at 60 Rewi St, Te Aroha. Clinic hours are 8.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.
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Jemma graduated from Massey University in 2017 and joined the Matamata and Te Aroha teams. Growing up on a dairy farm in Reporoa, Jemma always had a keen interest in becoming a dairy vet. However, throughout vet school she became equally interested in companion animals and is now a budding Mixed Practice Veterinarian.
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Today Kyle and I did something we hadn't done on our whole trip together. TIt was a milestone, and it happened on the last day of our trip. I met Kyle in front of my hotel in The Tenderloin… and we actually spent the day exploring the city together. We were finally able to do what we intended all along.
Perhaps our arrival into San Fran and bunking down in separate places was the magical mental release between Kyle and I, but today we wanted to walk the city together. This wasn't about having to be together, it was about wanting to be together. We didn't have a plan either. No maps, no place we had to be—just me, Kyle, and the streets of San Francisco.
We walked to City Lights Bookstore, the west coast home of the Beatniks—the west coast home of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose A Coney Island of the Mind is by far some of the best poetry ever written. It's one of the books that made me want to write (even though my poetry is god-awful!). Ferlinghetti was not in the bookstore, but Kyle and I still spent a good hour combing through the stacks. Kyle had just introduced me to John Fante, and we bought a few of his paperbacks. The place had everything—even a touch of rebellion in the face of the chains popping up over on Market Street. (I was lucky enough to encounter Ferlinghetti on a trip back to City Lights in 2007. I was walking upstairs; he was heading down. We both tripped as we were walking toward each other, and when we met in the middle of the staircase, Ferlinghetti put his hand on my arm and said to me, "The young poet and the old poet falling down the stairs.")
After literary nirvana, we retired to Vesuvio's across the way for booze and beer. Lots of booze and beer. We walked the streets taking everything in—the people, smells, the sounds, and the geography. We eventually found our way to Fisherman's Wharf, and if not for the bellow of the sweet sea lions, I think I would've blown my brains out. This was the type of area Kyle and I kept trying to avoid, and no matter if we were in St. Louis, Las Vegas, or 'Frisco, one thing we learned was that there was no way to avoid the box-store mentality of Joe Fuckwad, his stupid wife, and his two bratty kids with buck teeth and pointy heads.
Over dinner that night, Kyle told me he was heading north by bus. I had booked my tickets back to Philly on Amtrak the previous night. We hugged and agreed to keep in touch—and we did. Just not as frequently as we should have. The goodbye was bittersweet, but I was more than happy knowing I was heading home tomorrow.


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Quilting is one of the activities that used to be a common household task or chore and is now a hobby practiced only by a few. However quilts are still a prized heirloom or work of household art. Patterns can be traditional or modern. The sewing is sometimes still done by hand, but a sewing machine is often used, at least for parts of the work.
During the early growth of the United States, quilting was sometimes a social activity on the "frontier". Quilting was a way to turn scraps of cloth into useful objects. Now it is a hobby, a way to honor the past, and an artistic outlet. Sometimes quilts will be made out of fabric from special items as a way to create a fabric scrapbook of a life or special event. For instance, a quilt could contain pieces of a christening dress, clothing worn for the first day of school, wedding clothes, etc. Now, there is also technology to print pictures on fabric that can then be pieced into a quilt.
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Angelababy is one of Vogue's international cover girls for April
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- AnonymousMarch 15, 2019 at 3:09 AM
Celebrating global talent and featuring Angelababy is totally a mismatch. It's embarrassing in comparison to the other actresses on the cover. Even cnetz criticized about this. What's her representative work again? Should have picked Ni Ni or Liu Yifei who at least have few representative works and posses distinctive aura. Liu Yifei worked in Hollywood production before and has upcoming Disney's Mulan too. Heck even Yangmi is more deserving than Baby.ReplyDelete
On the other hand, I love how Bae Doona, Scarlet Johansson and Deepika Padukone are together on the cover, they're indeed on another level.
Why Angelababy? I wonder too....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2019 at 9:30 AM
Not a fan of Angelababy but I don't understand the passionate hate towards her. Each and everytime there are news about her people would say she is untalented, plastic, doesn't deserve anything, etc.ReplyDelete
I've seen fans being so much more bias about their own idol, and even spread lies that their idol is the best, while the truth is their idol can be waay worse than Angelababy. Since that is allow, how can putting Angelababy into a celebration like this be wrong?
She isn't the best, but just because she's not included in your bias list, that doesn't mean she is so underserving of these celebrations.
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2019 at 2:58 PM
What is this logic, so just because a celeb is not one's bias, she's suddenly deserving of these celebrations. She obviously doesn't fit the theme because her acting sucks, don't have any representative work unlike other actresses on thecover, never gained any award or acting recognition either. She's popular because of her look and her husband is an A-lister. Obviously there are more actresses of her age thats more deserving this global talent celebration. If you read netizen comment on CnewsNew1 you can see even cnetz blast Angelababy for gracing the Vogue US cover. Angelababy never even get to feature in Vogue China, that's how exclusive the magazine is. Only certain big name actresses got to land cover on it like Zhang Ziyi, Gongli, Zhouxun etc.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2019 at 5:44 PM
Why would they not have Liu Fei Yi (Crystal Liu) as part of the cover of Vogue?? If anything, she is in the Mulan Movie and will be recognized by the Hollywood and the American Audience and she is from China.... Angelababy is pretty but wow..how in the world did she even get on the cover of Vogue, when there are other Chinese Stars that should have been on the cover. I really hope Vogue will give Crystal Liu her very own Solo Cover in America when Mulan comes out.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2019 at 7:29 AM
Global talent and ABB don't match. Golshifteh Farahani deserved to be on the cover though. From Chinese actresses why didn't they pick Liu Yifei? She's better than ABB, definitely. The most well loved Chinese actress in film circles has to be Zhang Ziyi, even she would've been a better pick. OrYang Mi who's the international endorser for Stuart Weitzman. Why ABB????ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2019 at 8:02 AM
They must have wanted to get Fan Bingbing but since she is still on hiatus, they got ABB who looks abit similar to her.ReplyDelete
I don't buy or watch any womens magazines, so I don't know if this is a popular one. All I thought was "How ugly". Seriously, shoot the photograph. Having such a bunch of beautiful women and making them look so bland. Please shoot the person who have choosen the clothes too since they are exceptional ugly. Designers these days seem to hate women.ReplyDelete


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PhD graduate Doug Hall on his route into pharma consulting
Name: Doug Hall
Degree course: Medical Science (CRUK)
College: Wolfson
Graduated: 2017
I have been working for almost a year at MAP BioPharma, a pharmaceutical consultancy firm in Papworth. The NHS carefully assesses the value of newly developed medicines to ensure optimum use of NHS resources, and MAP works with the pharmaceutical industry in developing reports and evidence assessments to demonstrate that new medicines are cost-effective and will improve outcomes for patients.
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My role within the company focuses on guidance and advice for industry in understanding the complex systems involved in the assessment of new medicines, to ensure companies are correctly collecting, analysing, and conveying the key information needed to demonstrate their latest technology is worth bringing to the NHS.
Throughout my undergrad (Biochemistry, Oxford) I had been aiming for a career in pharma/bioscience R&D. Upon graduating, I found that interesting research roles invariably required a PhD, and that, due to the tough job market at the time, even BSc/MSc roles were being filled by PhD-holders, so I headed back to do my PhD.
During my postgrad I found that a lot of a challenges I ran into were not technical or scientific, but arose from logistical and political inefficiencies, something that intensely frustrated me. Wanting to overcome this type of issue, coupled with the practical problem-solving skills developed during my PhD led me to consulting as a career.
The catalyst for this was the university's GRADschool career development course, which aimed to highlight the transferable skills taught by PhD study. This was largely taught by freelance consultants, and opened my eyes to how applicable my skills were to this sort of career.
To find out more I undertook student consulting project work with a student society, the Cambridge Consulting Network. This was one of the most valuable experiences in my progress to my current role, allowing me to hone the relevant skills, and giving me an idea of the practical nature of consulting work. For current students, I strongly recommend looking into if there are any student societies doing this kind of work within any areas you are interested in, as this type of experience can be very useful, particularly if you can bring a strong personal contribution to a project (and quantify that on a CV).
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Qualification and competencies
Knowledge of software development lifecycle tools (such as ALM QC)
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19 Ways to Establish your Credibility Almost Instantaneously
by David Gaudreault, Entrepreneur, Maker, Online Marketing and Personal Branding Specialist
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Have you ever noticed that when you start working for a company, one of the first things they do is to brand yo?.
They give you a title (e.g. director of marketing), they give you a professional email address, a business card, guidelines for your email signature, some templates that you will need to use when writing a letter or making a presentation and sometimes they impose a dressing code.
All those elements serve two purposes:
- Make sure you align with the corporate brand and become the perfect little corporate soldier, but also to…
- help you establish your credibility with customers
And you will notice that higher your responsibilities higher is your "status" or title so that you be taken seriously by large customers!
To be perfectly honest, you wouldn't be a better person with a lower grade title, but life is so made!
People are very suggestible, full of preconceived ideas and it is very easy to influence them and establish your credibility with a few simple elements in place!
You can establish your credibility in a way similar to that used by companies for their employees.
In personal branding, you can't rely on the company image and credibility, or a title assigned to you, but you can use similar tricks to influence people so that they give you high credibility almost instantaneously.
Below are 19 things you can implement to establish your credibility in the blink of an eye.
In addition, I added an additional 3 tips at the end to help you establish your credibility even more rapidly.
1 – Build a Blog with your Own Domain
Nowadays, you don't need to be a techie to build your own website and blog.
Anyone can do it easily following a few easy steps:
- Buy your domain name (see How to choose a domain name) at namecheap.com or at your favorite ICANN-accredited registrar.
- Purchase a hosting plan with Siteground (I recommend the GrowBig plan which is among the best for hosting a WordPress blog).
- Install your free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate
- Install WordPress
- Buy and Install your WordPress Theme (I recommend the DIVI theme or Avada)
- Design your site using your brand identity – logo (you may get a good logo from 99designs), visual guidelines, messages, stories, etc.
- Install essential plugins
- Translate your website if applicable using WPML.org plugin
- Configure the DNS of your domain to point to your server
- Setup Google Analytic and Facebook Pixel
You are all set to start producing content!
2-Get your Professional Email
Once you have a website, getting your professional email can be achieved in two simple steps:
- Setup your email address in CPanel
- Configure your new address in Outlook, Gmail, Zoho Mail or any of your favorite email management tool.
3-Build your Social Media Pages
I recommend creating a page in the most popular Social Media platforms:
Design your page with meticulous attention, making sure to follow your brand guidelines, and use your message and stories with consistency among all your platforms.
All your profiles should be completed with relevant information, with your value proposition and call-to-action displayed prominently.
Make sure your cover images display properly on all screen size. You can verify that using Chrome Developer tools.
Click on the 3-dots menu, More Tools, Developer Tools and finally click on the Toggle Device Toolbar icon on the upper left side of the menu.
You can also get involved in industry-specific social media platforms that relate to your niche. You can find them easily with a simple Google search.
4-Get your Professional Business Cards
Business cards should be professionally designed following your brand guidelines.
You can get them from Vistaprint or Moo.
Include your traditional information, your website URL and your social media pages.
It's always a good idea to include a call-to-action on the back of your card to intrigue people and get them to visit your blog.
For the Personal Branding theme, an example would be:
10 Personal Branding Secrets you Absolutely Need to Know!
and add a simple URL below the title like : davidgaudreault.com/secrets
5-Start Social Groups of Experts and Be the Admin / Mediator
There is a consensus right now that Facebook pages are dead, but in reality, all social media platforms limit your organic reach to force you to buy more ads.
As Neil Patel mentioned in his recent post 7 Marketing Mistakes That Nearly Broke Me… Literally:
"History has proven that social networks continually change their algorithms and restrict your reach […]."
However, groups are in a different category. They work more like tribes where everybody contributes and they offer a very high reach among the people in the group.
As an expert group administrator, you have the double advantage of getting self-promotional opportunities while being able to establish your credibility with the experts in your groups.
6-Write a book
Nowadays, self-publishing a book has never been more accessible as print-on-demand services makes it very easy and affordable.
The negative side of this new reality is the explosion of books published in recent years and an average sale of books constantly reaching new lows. In 2010, The average U.S. nonfiction book in 2010 was selling less than 250 copies per year and less than 3,000 copies over its lifetime. This trend has continued since then, which means that these figures are certainly worse today.
That said, why would you write a book if not to sell it and make money with it?
In fact, authors are commonly viewed as authorities in their field of expertise and for this reason, writing a book really help establish your credibility.
Therefore, most authors write books, not necessarily to make money but to establish their credibility and use this credibility to upsell other profitable services such as coaching, consulting, public speaking, etc.
List of Self-Publishing Services with Print-On-Demand
- KDP Amazon (formally CreateSpace)
- BookBaby
- Ingram Spark
- Lighting Source
- Lulu
- Troubador (by Matador – UK)
7-Start a Vlog and a Podcast
Another way to establish your credibility is by hosting a Vlog (video blog) and a Podcast where you showcase your expertise.
Vlog and Podcast are a good complement to your blog because they show more of your personality, your enthusiasm, your drive, and energy.
Top Vlogging Platforms
Unlike the aforementioned Vlogging platforms that host video files, podcast publishing platforms do not host your audio files.
Therefore, you need a Media Hosting Provider to host your audio files and, then you publish the hosted files on publishing platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Spotify.
Top 8 Podcast Hosting Providers
8-Speak at Conferences
Being a speaker at a conference provide various benefits:
- Increase your credibility: because it shows that you are well-versed on the topic of your speech.
- Get in touch with your target audience
- Build and increase your personal brand awareness
- Get your message across to hundreds of prospective clients
- Help you improve your presentation skills
- Build your network
Of course, a speech at a conference will not establish your credibility beyond the crowd participating in the conference, unless you record your speech and publish it on your blog!
So it becomes exciting! By publishing your conference on your blog, thousands of people are likely to see it, and your conference will help you establish your credibility with all these people.
9-Host Free Webinars
Webinars are great for selling virtually anything, but it is also a great tool to establish your credibility with your attendees because just like for conferences, it shows that you are well-versed on the topic of your webinar.
The good thing about webinars is that you can make it evergreen and let it run on cruise control 24/7. It means you can reach a larger target audience.
Many tools are available to do webinars, but two tools really stand out in the market right now.
The first one is WebinarJam, which is for live webinars and the second is EverWebinar, which is used to turn your live webinar into an evergreen webinar, an automated live webinar.
You may also be interested to read more about the Best Practices to Create the Perfect Webinar
10-Offer Training
What a better way to establish your credibility than becoming an instructor in your industry.
Just think about your old days at school and how much credibility and authority you were giving to your teachers without any further due other than the fact they were your teachers.
You can offer two types of training.
In-person training.
These training take a real commitment and quickly become time-consuming. Actually, most people giving in-person training do it as their main job.
Online training
The alternative is to create online training, which requires quite a long time at first, but once completed, thousands of customers can take your course with no other investment in time than customer support.
There are various tools available to offer online training.
Udemy is one of the biggest marketplaces to sell online course and is definitely a tempting option considering you can post your course for free.
However, Udemy takes 50% per sale, limit your pricing to $199 and somewhat, control your branding.
My favorite option is Thinkific.
On Thinkific, you can get a standalone site with your custom domain and you have full control over your pricing and branding, and you get access to your students' email address which is a big deal in marketing.
Thinkific also offers a free plan (with a transaction fee of 10%), which is an undeniable advantage to test the public interest in your course before committing to an annual paid subscription.
11-Do Live Streaming Videos
Live streaming is another way to connect and engage with your audience while establishing your credibility.
The big advantage of streaming is that you get to discuss with your audience in real time and for this reason, streaming generates 10x more comments than on-demand videos.
As you may know, comments positively impact your reach, meaning more comments means ultimately more video views.
10 Most Popular Live Streaming Video Platforms
- YouTube Live
- Facebook Live
- Twitch
- Periscope
- Younow
- Bambuser (formally IRIS)
- Dacast
- Livestream
- Brightcove
12-Be an Expert Speaker in Traditional Media
It is hard to get booked in traditional Media. You need to work your way in on the long run, building professional relationships with reporters and prove yourself to be a trustable source in your industry.
Obviously, the day you get booked you really hit a home run in term of establishing your credibility!
But, it won't happen overnight.
That said, being proactive certainly helps!
To get the ball rolling, you can try to get experience at your local TV channel or local radio as a collaborator. In order to do so, you need to pitch yourself very well.
5 Tips to Pitch Yourself to the Media
- Be Professional
- Back it up with stats, articles, and anecdotes to support your narrative
- Be Confident
- Don't Oversell
- Be Overly Prepared
Once you get your first interview, you can use it to showcase yourself to the bigger players and hope for the best.
You can also subscribe to the HARO platform where you can make yourself available to reporters for potential interviews.
As state on their site, HARO provides journalists with a robust database of sources for upcoming stories and daily opportunities for sources to secure valuable media coverage.
13-Be a Content Creator
Creating your own content is very important to establish your credibility as it is a great opportunity to showcase your expertise while bringing real value to your audience.
You can provide content in 7 various ways.
- THE CONTENT CREATOR: you create the content yourself
- THE CURATOR: you find and share all the best content from the best sources and position yourself as the "go to" person
- THE JOURNALIST: you comment on what's going on in the world with an objective point of view.
- THE INSTIGATOR / CRITIC: you critic the world and you become a devil's advocate in your industry
- THE CASE STUDY: as an early adopter, you test everything yourself and teach the world from your learning and experience.
- THE "REGULAR PERSON": just you being truly you, showing the world your life in the most genuine way.
- THE INDUSTRY EXPERT: know what you are talking about and people come to you for advice.
It's up to you to produce the type of content that you feel comfortable with. The most important is to produce quality content and produce it regularly and consistently.
14-Be a Contributor (Guess Author) in authoritative online Medias
Becoming a guest author in authoritative online media has the great advantage of allowing you to associate your name with the authoritative media, which gives you instant credibility.
Those articles also include a bio with a link to your blog, which helps drive additional traffic to your blog.
15-Collaborate with Influencers in your Industry
There are multiple benefits of collaborating with other influencers in your industry, among which establishing your credibility and getting exposure.
That said, you need to be selective and get yourself involved in fruitful collaborations.
A good way to reach out to the right influencers is by using Social Media to measure their social reach, their community's engagement and get in touch with the ones that really are a good fit with you.
Keep in mind that well-established influencers get multiple collaboration offers. Therefore, to be successful, try to think of what motivates them and figure out collaboration projects that will help them reach their goals.
16-Get Involved in Online Discussions
Jump in discussions on Twitter, comment on other people's posts in Social Media, answer Quora questions, comments in blogs, comments on Youtube videos and make sure to bring your point of view each time, with relevance and intelligence.
This will establish your credibility with the community of content creators and that is worth a lot because they are the ones active and engaged, and they can help you build engagement around your content.
17-Grow your Professional Network
For a long time, growing your network meant getting involved in the community and getting to know people in-person.
Obviously, it is still relevant and these days, the application meetup really helps to find interesting events in your city that are relevant to your industry and where you can build your network.
That said, nowadays, LinkedIn is also a very powerful tool to network and connect with people, or I should say to connect with the right people. LinkedIn Search Filter allows you to search for specific profiles and connect with the ones relevant to you.
It can be potential collaborators in your industry, clients, mentors, investors, etc.
Surprisingly, it is very easy to connect with people on Linkedin as opposed to other Social platforms like Facebook. All you have to do is (1) make sure your profile is clean and professional and (2) send a connection request with a personalized message.
If you do it right, you will get over 40% acceptance rate.
You might be interested in this article about How to Get Exposure on LinkedIn.
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After connecting with people, learn as much as you can about them, about their offers, their differentiators, their level of services, their companies, etc., enough to be able to refer them to other professionals of your network.
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Interpretation of the second woe
The traditional interpretation of the second woe of Revelation 9 is that the horses in the prophecy are symbolic, and represent false teachers, and apostasy, which, it was believed, would become worse at the time of the end. The views of some of the early scholars of the church who studied the Apocalypse are considered in this post. Quotations and author information are adapted from Augustus Clissold, The spiritual exposition of the Apocalypse, Volume 2, 1851.
According to Pope Gregory the Great, (d. 604) the horses of the second woe signify "iniquitous preachers, running about with their mouths opened by the impulse of carnal motives."
Venerable Bede (c. 673 – 735) was born near Weremouth, in the bishopric of Durham. He "interprets the fire and smoke and sulphur proceeding out of the mouth as signifying noxious preaching. The prophet who teacheth a lie, he is the tail. 'Tails like unto serpents,' he therefore considers to signify false teachers."
Ambrose Ansbert (d. 778) was presbyter in France in the reign of the Emperor Arnold, and Monk of the order of St. Benedict. He believed he was instructed by Christ to understand the obscure mysteries of the Apocalypse.
Clissold wrote:
Ambrose Ansbert conceives that by horses are meant the preachers of error; by the heads of the horses, the authors of these errors; by their having heads like lions, their being strong to tear in pieces the feeble; by the fire, smoke, and sulphur proceeding out of their mouth, their preaching perverse dogmas, and power of persuasion; by the tail, the prophet who teaches a lie.
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury was born at Aoste in Piedmont, 1034. He was made Archbishop by William II, a.d. 1093. His work on the Apocalypse is entitled, Enarrationes in Apocalypsin; though it is attributed by some to Anselm of Laudun.
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, Apocalypse, p. 487;
"And they who sat upon them had breastplates of fire, and hyacinth, and sulphur;' that is, they fortified themselves by their opinions, from which followed their eternal punishment. . . .'From their mouth;' that is, their preaching; because that is the cause of their punishment."
Clissold wrote:
Anselm proceeds to interpret fire to signify the heat of cupidity, smoke the ignorance arising from pride, and sulphur the stench of evil works; the power in the mouth as signifying evil preaching, and the tail occult deceptions. In the application of these interpretations he exhibits however some slight variations from other authors.
Richard of St. Victor was a Regular Canon of St. Victor, Paris, and intimate friend of St. Bernard. Author of various works on the Scriptures. Died, 1130.
Richard of St. Victor, Apocalypse, p. 246; –
"These demons had 'breastplates,' by reason of their complicated subtlety; 'fiery,' through burning ill will; 'sulphureous,' through the fœtor of their infamy; 'of hyacinth,' through the shew and simulation of heavenly righteousness. The hyacinth, having a likeness in color to heaven, signifies the heavenly life. An angel of Satan sometimes transforms himself into an angel of light, and under the shew of virtue palliates vice; and whom he cannot deceive by force he deceives by hypocrisy. . . 'From their mouth proceeds fire,' from the malignity of wicked suggestion; and smoke from the darkness of their blindness, and sulphur from the foetor of their viciousness and wicked opinion. . . . 'By these three plagues are slain the third part of men' i. e., the whole body of those who are to be damned, viz., by the fire of evil suggestion, and the smoke of blindness, and the sulphur of corrupting viciousness and stinking thoughts: which proceeded from their mouth, because evil communications corrupt good manners. But inasmuch as the wicked endeavor to hurt the good not only by open suggestion but by secret fraud, it rightly follows that the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails. For the mouth signifies open suggestion; the tail, occult fraud; and the wicked, when they cannot hurt with their mouth, hurt with their tail; because they endeavor to accomplish in secret what they cannot do openly."
Hyponoia, Apocalypse, p. 143; –
"'The horses in vision and them that sat upon them,' These were war-horses and their riders warriors, representing doctrinal powers, engaging in what we may call a contest of principles."
Nicolas De Lyra was a native of Lire, a village of Normandy. He was a converted Jew of the order of the Franciscans. Flourished toward the beginning of the fourteenth century. His Postills on the Scriptures were said to be much esteemed by Luther.
De Lyra, Apocalypse, chap. ix.; –
"'They had breastplates' As in the case of good men, their breastplate is called righteousness, Eph. vi., 'Put on the breastplate of righteousness;' so, in the opposite sense, unrighteousness is here said to be the breastplate of the wicked. 'Of fire,' through the fervid appetite of doing injury. 'Of a hyacinthine,' i. e., a celestial color in which is designated their apparent zeal of faith. For heretics, asserting that they are but establishing the truth of faith, raise up a persecution against true catholics. 'From their mouth proceedeth fire,' – dissension among men. Moraliter; their power is in their mouths, being advocates of evil doctrine, detractors of others, adudators, and unjustly sustaining these evil practices by their words."
Rupertus, abbot of the monastery of St. Heribert, Duyz, near Cologne; of the order of St. Benedict. A learned and celebrated commentator, who wrote upon various books of Scripture, and among these the Apocalypse. He flourished in the time of Pope Paschal the Second, A.D. 1116.
Rupertus, Apocalypse, p. 423;–
"What are we to understand by fire, but cupidity? What by the hyacinthine color which resembles the appearance of heaven, but pride? What by foetid sulphur, but lust, especially that which is contrary to nature?"
Blasius Viegas (d. 1599) of Lusitania, Spain was a Jesuit and the author of Commentaries on the Apocalypse and other books of Scripture. Clissold stated: "Viegas interprets the breastplates of hyacinth to signify the simulation of the zeal of faith and religion, of the love of celestial things, and the true worship of God."
Louis de Alcasar (1554-1613) was born at Seville, Spain. He was a Jesuit teacher of philosophy and afterwards of divinity at Cordova and at Seville for twenty years. On the fire from the mouths of the horses in the second woe, Alcasar said: "The fire signifies the excandescence of anger and of angry persons; the smoke, the darkness of a disordered reason; the sulphur signifies rage." Clissold stated, "Alcasar thinks that by the four angels bound at the river Euphrates, and here actuating men, are signified self-love, the love of the good opinion of the world, the love of riches, and private judgment, by which he seems to mean rather self-intelligence."
Cornelius A Lapide was Professor of Theology in the Academy of Louvain, and a Jesuit. His most celebrated Commentaries on Scripture were published in successive volumes about the beginning of the seventeenth century. Cornelius a Lapide, Apocalypse, p. 176; –
"They are said to be ten thousand times ten thousand; because the army of angers, tumults, and furies, when it arises from the inordinate affections of the mind, is innumerable. Whence from these there arise innumerable quarrels, wranglings, and discords. Let angry persons take note of this; for while they resist not their wrath, but indulge it, what else do they but raise up and set in combat against themselves and their own peace and conscience, infinite cohorts of internal and raging enemies. . . . ."
Clissold wrote:
"A Lapide says, p. 179, that the breastplates were of a hyacinthine, i. e., a celestial color, in order that the combatants might seem to be sent by God from heaven. And Ribera, p. 148, says, it was that men might understand enemies of this kind to be insuperable and sent by God; by which means the wicked might be involved in punishment."
Hieronymus Lauretus was a native of Cervaria, a town on the confines of France and Spain. He was a Benedictine monk of the monastery at Montserrat, and abbot of the monastery of St. Felix Guicciolensis. Author of the work, entitled Sylva Sylvarum totius Scripturæ, being a dictionary of the allegorical senses of words, compiled from out of the writings of the Fathers.
Lauretus, art. Sulphur; –
"Sulphur is a substance concocted by the burning of fire in the veins of the earth, the fume of which is of a fetid and pungent odor; nor is there anything that more easily takes fire; whence it appears to possess a highly igneous principle (Pliny).
Clissold wrote:
"'The brimstone going out of the mouth of the horses, signifies the blasphemies of heretics, and of the persecutors of the church."
Now the infernal origin of these doctrines is to be found in the lusts, concupiscences, or cupidities of the natural man. Accordingly Rupertus every where interprets brimstone to signify cupidity: Ribera, to signify lust.
And in like manner on Job xviii., 15, "Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation," Gregory observes, the foetor of kindled lust (Brixianus Dic, art. Sulphur).
Wodehouse also observes, p. 272, of the smoke, fire, and brimstone, that, –
"These, issuing from the mouths of the invaders of the church, must, if interpreted consistently, be stated to represent corrupt, infernal, destructive doctrines." (See also Horne's Index to the Symbolical Language of the Scriptures.)
Again, p. 261, in a note, that, –
"By smoke are denoted dark confused doctrines, clouding the light of pure revelation, and brimstone in union with these implies their infernal origin."
The heads on the tails signifies, says Durham, 'the gross abominableness and absurdity of the doctrine,' p. 298.
John Hooper, Rector of Albury wrote:
"Let us next consider the description which is given of the army mentioned under this trumpet. St. John says; 'And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and out of their mouths issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone.' These emblems clearly represent Satan assuming the appearance of heavenly things. The mimicry of love is discernible in the 'breastplate of fire, and 'jacinth' being of a purple color and one of the foundation stones of the New Jerusalem, shews that Satan will put forth the light of hell in the semblance of heavenly truth, so as to deceive if possible the very elect; the 'brimstone' discovers to us the spiritual apostacy by those who are led away by Satan, being given up by God to believe a lie, because they abode not in the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Their being on 'horses' shews that it is a fleshly host; and their horses having 'mouths like lions,' that they assume apostolic authority and power; 'fire, smoke, and brimstone issuing from their mouths' are expressive of false love, heresies, and spiritual wickedness. 'By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone.' It is added, 'For their power is in their mouth and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents and had heads, and with them they do hurt.' It is said by Isaiah, 'The prophet that teacheth lies he is the tail,' and their tails being like unto serpents represent the false prophets which shall be among the people, filled with all subtilty," &c.
Hooper interpreted the horses of the second woe as representing apostate Christians led by infidels. He spoke of men who become "ecclesiastically dead." In The Revelation of Jesus Christ Explained Agreeably to the Analogy of Holy Scripture and the Interpretation of Its Symbols [Joseph Masters, 1850] he wrote:
Instead, however, of looking to the literal Euphrates, from whence these Turkish hordes are said to be loosed, we prefer the more consistent course of making the whole vision symbolic, and of looking to the mystical Euphrates as the source from whence the instruments of this war have their rise. And in so doing, we believe the symbolism will apply to the present condition of Christendom, especially to the western part, moved, and led on, as it is, by infidel men. In this point of view, "horsemen" represent those who lead on a host. Thus it is written of Pharaoh, "The horse and his rider are cast into the sea;" the horse itself being a representative, as it were, of the host which is led; and the rider, of the leader of the host. The leaders of this host are said to have "breastplates of fire, and of jacinth and brimstone;" or rather, as the words denote, not the substances themselves, but like Fire" is the symbol, properly, of love—of the love of God shed in the heart by the Holy Ghost; and hence the Holy Ghost is frequently represented by fire, because the Holy Ghost is God; and being partakers of the Holy Ghost, God dwelleth in us. When the Holy Ghost was given on the day of Pentecost, cloven tongues like as of fire rested upon the disciples. "God is love." "Our God is a consuming fire." "The name of our God is jealous," which belongs abstractly to love. Hence love and jealousy are used conjointly in the Canticles, "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." This is its meaning in a good sense, but as all symbols have an application both to good and evil, or rather, as the abstract quality is moved and filled by good or evil, so here, it has only the semblance of good, and intimates that the men who ought to have on them the breastplate of righteousness, are wearing only as their defence an appearance of love. The "jacinth" is a mixture of blue and red; which combination of colours would seem to indicate a spiritual zeal for what they deem truth. "Brimstone" is the symbol of spiritual death; its vapour always destroys life under every form. These three symbols put together, will bring out, in an ecclesiastical point of view, what chartists and democrats are clamouring for in the state, and will produce in the Church the last universal earthquake, under the three forms of fraternity, liberty, and equality, which evil principles will alike destroy the constitution of kingdoms, and all Church establishments. They say, "We can love as brethren, without a Church establishment. We can be spiritually minded, and have zeal for truth, without Church ordinances. We are by nature equal, and as Christians we are all equal, are all partakers of one Spirit, and have equal rights one with another, and therefore we need no rulers or any Church establishment." These fearful perversions of truth produce, what we may term, ecclesiastical death. Church establishments cannot exist any more than civil governments, if men maintain that all are equal, and all have an equal right, instead of recognizing the principle of God's government over them, and that He calleth and ordaineth some to holy office in the Church, which none others can fulfil. But although such is the cry, and defensive armour of the leaders of this host against the righteous ways of the Lord, they are themselves the most tyrannical of men, and are well represented as having the "lion's head," for they deliver forth their dogmas with the same authority as though they were sent of God as Apostles to the Church, and assume an equal right to guide and control men. They are also false teachers, having a serpentine subtility, or semblance of truth in them; and these serpent tails having "heads," shows that they are heads to themselves, and acknowledge by their principles no headship over them. "Out of their mouth also issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone;" that is to say, their zeal bears the semblance of love, (symbolized by the fire,) but their doctrines are those of darkness and not of light, being heretical and damnable, (represented by the smoke,) and they produce spiritual death (described as brimstone.) In short, these symbolic horsemen are Apostles of Satan, sent forth by him for the destruction of that outward fabric of Christian polity and government, which up to the present time, under one form or another, has ever been held sacred.
"By these were the third part of men killed." This symbolism in the trumpet phase, relates to that class of persons who are the heads of the ecclesiastical body: for as the democrats aim at the destruction of all the upper classes of society who bear rule in the government of the world, so these spiritual leaders, or apostles of Satan, aim at the subversion and destruction of all rule in the exercise of the pastoral ministry in its three offices of Bishop, Priest, and Deacon. And the Pastors of the churches throughout Christendom, losing the power of rule, (even as the kings of the earth lose theirs) become ecclesiastically dead.
"And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils, and idols, and gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which neither can see nor hear, nor walk; neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." "Evil men and seducers, (it is said) shall wax worse and worse," and S. Peter declares of such "they shall utterly perish in their own corruption." So devil-worship will be the last form of iniquity into which men will fall! As it was the last temptation which Satan presented to our Lord, so it is the last which he will present to the Church; and those who abide not stedfast in the faith, taking shelter and protection under God's ordinances, will be led captive by him, and worship him as their God. And the personal AntiChrist who will arise out of apostate Christendom to rule over men, being energized and indwelt of Satan, will direct all men to worship him; sitting as he will, "in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." Those who repent not of their works go on into deeper depths of iniquity, robbing God of His dues both ecclesiastical and spiritual; and destroying all discipline and authority in the Church of Christ on earth. This work of destruction, in ecclesiastical things, together with the idolatry they commit, their worship of the work of their own hands, their forms of service and doctrines, their boast of natural talents and endowments, together with their unlawful intercourse with the world, or spiritual fornication, uniting ecclesiastical with worldly things, conspire at this period to bring about the consummation of the mystery of iniquity. As the former woe arose from separating the spiritual from the outward ordinances of the Church, so this second woe as a natural consequence leads to the destruction of all outward or ecclesiastical form whatever.


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We have these lives that ask us to go to school…finish school…get good grades…go to college or trade school…get good grades (theme here!!)…finish school…get a job….work hard at that job…pay the bills…get more things…pay more bills…take care of our family's…have kids…pay more bills…get the kids involved…run those kids around…put the kids in the best schools…pay more bills…get stressed so you take a vacation…pay more bills…work even harder because of the bills and time off….get more stuff…
You get the idea. You may even be living some of this! There's nothing wrong with the school, or the family, or the bills, or any of the above! It's a blessing to work and to achieve. But it can take over our lives and we forget why we even started in the first place!
A few years ago, my brand new husband and I pulled back from a very lucritive lifestyle. We worked our tails off to get there. At the height of our careers…we left. (I wish I could put a huge pause here!!) Yes we left. I personally had finally arrived and I loved my job. I was starting to make a large sum of money even…and I left. We didn't just leave in a small way (if you know my husband and I, we don't do many things in a small way!!), we left our jobs, our lifestyle, our income, our state and retreated up into Northern Michigan. From the city and shopping and going out to eat and lunch dates and music on the 'veranda' to a small farm in a small town.
My Father was terminally ill. That was one reason. But I believe that my Fathers illness was a catalyst. We were able to have 6 months with my loving Dad who was my mentor and friend…He passed away 2 1/2 years ago and I'm still here in remote Northern Michigan.
We felt God leading us to pull back–we needed a retreat. Both my husband and I had rough divorces that dragged us through the mud. In all honesty, I felt like I had gone to Hell and back. Seven years of drama and turmoil that didn't seem to let up until I met Jim. I was exhausted. Loved where God had brought me–New loving husband, Fianlly the side of "town" I always wanted to live in, and a fantastic career–but…exhausted just the same.
The truth…I needed more than a vacation. I needed a respite. To pull back. To think. To regroup. To hear and to LISTEN from God. God wanted something more for me and my family, but I wasn't going to be able to have that if I stayed where I was. I loved it too much! I was able to buy things…and coming from my single-motherhood state, THAT meant something to me!! I did it! I had arrived! Look at me…I accomplished the goal! Wait…did you hear it?
I, me, my, I loved…I did…
Don't get me wrong, I leaned heavily on my Savior through all those tough times and years. He lead me to the point where I was, even with all my mistakes! Only, when I arrived, I loved it and was very proud of myself for gettting there!! I would have been quite happy staying there! But, God wanted more. He wanted to bless me and my family (and my new marriage) in a way that I couldn't even imagine at the time, but I was having such a hard time stepping out of the way. I had gone through some pretty rough times…some of you can't imagine the turmoil! But now…Now, I was on my feet! And I no longer had to beg anyone…ANYONE for food, or clothes, or gas for my car, or a job.
Under my new husbands love for me, he said, "Let's go!" So, we did. It has been a struggle. My Dad passed away. Jobs up here are scarce. Money is even scarcer (is that a word??). The winters…geesh! They are long. We are in a small town and can hardly find a Starbucks!! What is that?!?! I mean, we have chickens in our barn!! Hahaha… it's just the life I've needed. Time to think and re-evealuate. Time to become one with that wonderful new husband of mine! Man, we've been through it. In the last three years, we've had a lifetime together!!
So, now it's time. Time to step out again. This time trusting God and His leading. Holding my husbands hand and moving forward with the dream that God has given me. Lifting and encouraging others, because now that I've healed a bit (oh yes, I still have scares!), I can smile and point others to the True Source of strength…Jesus Christ. All that I am (at least the parts that you may like) are from him! (Keep in mind, I may have parts that you don't like…they are still me trying to exert myself! Sorry about that!! I'm a work in progress!!) We (which is a much different term than I was using before my respite)…WE are moving forward, being lead by Who…not what…not Self..
And ya know what's so great about all this?? I really don't know what's going to happen next!! It's a complete adventure full of surprises!! Who could ask for anything more?
- Gorgeous, loving husband who fully supports me
- Beautiful children who I respect and they respect me
- Adventure in my life that I can relax with (not that I always do…)
- Success beyond what I dreamed of (This doesn't necessarily mean money yet…)
Yup…I'm living the dream life (Which means most days I'm content to be lead!) and it's getting better and better!! Who knew it could be this simple? …God did! And He has much much more in store. His provision, His timing, His plan…god has it all worked out. I have to trust in that plan and do the steps that He has placed before me. That's what it means to "Walk by Faith"
So…Who is leading you?


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Friday, November 18, 2016
Black Vengeance - Part 13 - Enter the Daemon
There came a shrill cry from the warp. Hoarfrost appeared covering the ground, freezing blood and loose visceral strewn across the battle field. Shimmering blue electric sparks shot down from an intermittent image fading in and out as warp energy poured out from the crack in time and space. The smell of burnt blood was overpowering. Hard bony flesh covered in brass armor took corporeal form bending back the light of day. Large brass hooves scraped upon the stone. The daemon towered above Promenthius. It looked down to see a giant pentagram had been cut deep into the rock below. Runes fashioned from bright gem stone filled the ward pulsing with an energy of its own. At each of the five points stood a Custodes and it was in the very center. Lifting up it's axe the Bloodthirster roared.
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20 years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore! Dream! Discover!
...Mark Twain
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13 Weeks Later @ Tufts
- I start looking for new sales & marketing projects on 10/01 and 5/1
- The syllabus w/projects are sent out on 12/26 and 07/05
- 6 marketing & 4 sales projects for 2 very oversold courses
- 1 week later, the newbies need to tell me which project and why
- Bios are circulated to me and teams of 5-6 are formed
- Reading and research begins 30-45 days before class begins
- 13 weeks later, complete plans are presented to management
On the last day of the course in the last 15 minutes, I talk about, 'Jack's 3 Rules'
Rule # 1: Connections are Forever
Make all the connections that you possibly can. Cherish them. Treat each of them with extraordinary care. Store them, use them and communicate to them all of the time in LinkedIn, Twitter, FB and Insta. Never let those connections go stale and unused!
This week, I met with David K. in my office at Tufts. Haven't seen David, a brilliant product/market genius, president-level guy in 15 years since we sold EarCheck, a wonderful startup, founded by Sandra Kimball, where I was CEO and Dave was a critical part of our success. David's daughter is now at Tufts, and he found me when I made some recent noise at Tufts...which I often do, so he stopped by to chat.
Dave and I played the "whatever happened to..." game for 15 minutes, and he mentioned a critical person on our EarCheck team. While Dave was sitting there, I looked up that person on LI, and we talked about how important our success was due to that person.
Two hours later, I was talking to one of my seniors about a potential job. She mentioned the company, which seemed very familiar, and then I realized that the familiarity was because I had just pinged the company two hours before when David and I were reminiscing about "whatever happened to?". My student now has an interview next week with that long lost person, who is the president of that company.
In life, in business, in love and in family, cherish your connections!
Rule # 2: Learning is Consistently Continuous
Each semester-now 20 years at MIT and 10 at Tufts-I realize just how much I don't know.
At the end of every semester, I tell my students that everything which had been learned over the prior 13 weeks, is on that last day, obsolete.
Whether you're 21 or 33 (the age now of my oldest Tufts alums) or 43 or 53, to be in business at any level, I believe that you must consistently push yourself to learn more, to study more, and to test yourself all of the time.
I read a book a week, and in the summer often two. I'm fascinated by the intersection of technology in Healthcare and in Sales and Marketing, and I like nothing more than exploring new apps and platforms. My Summer Beach Bag is filling up quickly, and below you will find two new MUST READS if you want to push your own world of Sales & Marketing.
Summer reading
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All about the team, a strong sales culture...and having fun
I was sitting in a board meeting at Brainshark yesterday and listening to Colleen Honan, the highly experienced and talented Chief Sales Officer, talk about activity planning. Colleen has all of the background, the years, and the depth of experience to truly be qualified as the head of sales of a leading tech company. She's disciplined in her approach, fluent in new processes and technology and unrelenting in her approach to sales coaching, sales planning, sales training while having fun at the same time.
So when I walked in to the headquarters in Waltham at 7:30 yesterday, I was not surprised to see the salespeople already at work planning out their activities for the day and getting in early morning calls. I was however, a bit taken back by the fact that one of the leading teams of 20 or so, was dressed in tuxes and gowns. And then I learned that Colleen had been talking to them about the Gatsby generation, which inspired this very hard working team of classic millennials to dress the part for the day. So very cool...and engaging...and being part cementing the team!
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I live & work at the intersections of...
- The Company:
At the firm, we work diligently to bring 25% jumps in Sales and Marketing productivity to our clients.
- Tufts University:
Teaching the science, tools, technology and metrics of Marketing and Sales.
Most importantly, the teaching content of these courses is wound around 16 projects from real companies each year: 6 Marketing Plan projects in the spring, and 6 in the fall, plus 4 Sales Plan projects in the spring. As a result, I am always looking for new companies, which is the purpose of this blog...more in a couple of paragraphs
- Jobs Creation:
Connecting Tufts students to great jobs and opportunities!
This service began when a few students (Emerging Jumbos) would get hired by their marketing and sales project companies during the semester. Then, this process of creating connections easily expanded and quickly multiplied because I was able to open doors at companies like Hubspot, Brainshark, Fidelity, Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley Bank, Facebook, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft, and tens and tens of other "Great Places to Work".
Of course, that initial seeding of my alums into those companies has over the years led to lots of semi-annual calls from me that start with "Hi, I need a favor and could you give some guidance to one of my current students."
- Everyone of my alums knows the deal when they get that first job...it's time to pay back, and at some time, they will get "I need a favor call".
The whole process works, and it has two wonderful consequences.
1. It opens doors that would otherwise be closed or, at best, would be very difficult to open.
2. It keeps me in constant contact with my alums in their career journeys
So, I was very pleased to receive last week, from Emani Holyfield, who now works in HR at Google (and is one of "My Personal Best Tufts Team" !) this video on The 8 Laws of Branding by Brian Tracy.
Brian Tracy (just a bit slow in his speech, but the guy is a genius and is well worth listening to for the full 8 minutes) focuses not on the generalities of "branding", but brings the meaning of this complex marketing word down to the street level of just what it takes for each of us to create great "Personal Brands".
This is just an excellent framework for anyone: student, intern, upcoming 2018 graduate, and also for the more experienced salesperson or manager looking to open that next chapter in their journey.
Ok, so now "The Pitch"
Remember those 10 companies I need for the upcoming spring semester?
6 Marketing Plan projects and 4 Sales Plan projects!
This is a picture of our 2017 "Art & Science of Sales" Team, held only in the spring. (I teach at MIT in the fall and can't juggle three courses). They totally knocked the cover off the ball this year!
What's the Value for You?
We're looking for complex marketing and sales projects from real companies in a variety of markets. What you receive is a trained consulting team of five or six juniors and seniors working for 13 weeks to provide everything from full marketing or sales plans with detailed research and implementable recommendations to whatever sub segments of a full plan that you might need for 2018. Some smaller companies come to us for full marketing or sales plans, while others want to focus on a specific product or a new market.
What's the Value for the Students?
- They learn "on the job", and at the street level, the realities of Marketing and Sales
- They take classroom academics and apply that content to the reality of increasing sales
- They interface frequently with management which builds their skills and confidence
So, if you are at all interested, just email me at email@example.com, and I will send you the detailed instructions on how to apply.
It is a superb opportunity with hundreds of satisfied companies and graduate!
Tags: sales and marketing best practices, sales plans, Tufts marketing projects, Tufts ELS program, Tufts Gordon Institute, marketing plans, jack derby professor at Tufts
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13 Weeks of marketing classes ended yesterday at Tufts...
- The semester's 16 page syllabus was sent out on December 27th
- Along with five complex, semester-long, corporate marketing projects
- Five teams were formed around each project requiring research and full marketing plans
- We tackled three HBR cases studies during the first four weeks
- We took field trips to Hubspot & Brainshark to learn their platforms
- We learned blogging, keyword definitions, content construction...and a lot more
- We filled a toolbox with SWOT, Targeting, Persona, Pricing, and Value Proposition tools
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I love my jobs...
...Derby Management, Professor at Tufts and Chairman of Common Angels. A perfect imbalance of lots of complex work, high emotional and intellectual involvement and demanding assignments and projects. And, most of all, I really enjoy both the stimulation and the satisfaction from teaching marketing at Tufts. It's complex, rapidly changing, and most importantly, real world work with great students who are eager to prove themselves. All of which blends perfectly both into our Derby Management clients and even into the exciting, crazy and imperfect world of early stage investing.
It's final exam time in my juniors and seniors Marketing course, where for the entire semester, my students are grouped into six teams which solve complex assignments given to them a month before the semester begins by the senior management of small and middle market businesses.
All of the 13 weeks then get boiled down to a 50 minute presentation at which the team members present their findings, recommendations and implementation tactics to the senior management of their companies. After which, each of the team members need to send me their takeaways from their specific project. Three company presentations last Wednesday, and three coming up this week. Now the tough job of grading, which is always the most difficult part of my job as a professor...ugh!
I thought that Matt Guiness' comments to me this morning on his takeaways were particularly sound for all of us setting out this week to turn our attention away from the tragedy and celebration of last week and back to focus on our various work assignments and projects:
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Yulia Tymoshenko: politicians must stop trying to spark a cold civil war
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is urging Ukraine's politicians to stop using linguistic and historical antagonisms in their political and electoral technologies, according to the Official web site of Yulia Tymoshenko.
"I am asking the ruling team, opposition, civil society, historians, intellectuals and patriots to stop escalating a cold civil war, not prove the sincerity of their patriotism and love of Ukraine by opening the wounds of Ukraine's complex history. Politicians, stop ripping the electorate into your private pieces, fueling ideological dissent over the past, starting a war of monuments, languages and medals. This is cruel and suicidal," Yulia Tymoshenko wrote in her article "Europe Day" for LB.ua.
In her opinion, politicians should publicly recognize the diversity of Ukraine – that it is multilingual, patriotic, nationalistic, liberal, socialist, pro-European, pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian. "And if you wish it good, you must accept her, understand her and love her the way she is. Stop escalating hostilities between yourselves and start living our European future," the ex-premier is convinced.
Yulia Tymoshenko also suggested holding a nationwide roundtable with politicians from all camps. "I once again ask politicians from all camps, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our nation, to gather a national roundtable and adopt a declaration on a moratorium on using linguistic and historical antagonism in your political and electoral technologies, a moratorium on public aggression based on inter-party and inter-personal relationships," she stressed.
"Declare your principled opposition to dirty political talk shows that are devaluing Ukrainian statehood, discrediting all Ukrainian politicians and officials. I am urging you in this declaration to agree to simultaneously end both the 'Rise Up, Ukraine!' campaign and the so-called 'anti-fascist' movement and make a joint action plan for Ukraine's integration into the European Union. Everyone in politics and society must step away from the border of self-destruction and deadly civil turbulence. Don't allow ordinary Ukrainians to take aggression out on one another borne by social and legal injustice. Is that not why you plan to allow them to arm themselves with pneumatic weapons? Instead of peacefully removing from power the current professionally unsuitable group, you're inciting people to hate and kill one another through 'antifascism'. I ask you once again – the opposition and government – to publicly initiate a roundtable of understanding and stop this dangerous scenario," Yulia Tymoshenko said.


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"Toast" Nominations Now Open!
September 13, 2019 at 9:00 AM
The Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for "A Toast to Our Communities!" The event recognizes leaders and businesses making significant contributions to the Iowa City area business community.
- Eliot Keller Small Business of the Year
- Non-Profit Organization of the Year Award
- Impact & Innovation Award
- Spark Leadership Award
This year's winners will be recognized at the awards breakfast on Thursday, November 7, from 7:30-8:30 am at Celebration Farm (4696 Robin Woods Lane NE, Iowa City.) Early bird registrations are open now! Through October 10, tickets are $25 for Chamber members, and $30 for future members. After the 10th, registration goes up to $30 for members, $35 for future members. Ticket sales end on Thursday, October 31. Purchase your tickets here.
Interested in buying a table? Full table reservations are available only through our Sponsorship Campaign. Contact Emily Wenzel for more information.


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Please indulge me for a brief moment as I embellish on the beautiful ornament in my life who has helped make me who I am, has not given up hope on me, and has invested her life into our children and family raising us all to be better people and lovers of God!
To my dearest Belinda, you are a woman of strong, bold, gentle and nurturing character all at once. You are complex to say the least. As a professional communicator I find myself at a loss as to how to most effectively convey the vastness of my love for you.
Because of your love for me, even when I am unloveable; because you believe in me, even when I don't believe in myself; because of your grace demonstrated to me, even when I am less than gracious, I knew you were the woman I not only wanted to spend my life with, but the only woman I would trust with the Godly raising of our children.
No, I may not have realized all of this at 19 years old, but what I did see was a beautiful young lady who I wanted to be my wife, and 33 years later I am more thankful today than I was then that God saved you just for me and for our children.
Your steadfastness as a rock and a foundational grounding point for our children as well as for myself is unsurpassed. In the midst of life's pressures just living in the world, criticism because of the position you hold as the wife of a pastor, and even through unbearable pain hurled on you by individuals you had cared for and trusted, you remained steadfast and clung to Christ with what may have seemed at times like your last breathe.
I will always remember the day you told me you were a worshiper of God and you realized you were willing to lose everything for the sake of worshiping Christ. You are truly a leader among women, and have skillfully executed the roles of both wife and mother!
"There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!" Proverbs 31:29
Happy Mother's Day Sweetheart, I love you!
God bless you,
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1. build a wall
2. dissolve the Democratic party, abolish term limits
3. put an IPO on the management of the Executive branch, with a board of directors and him as CEO.
4. end the melting pot
5. remove middle/lower class entitlement
6. create futuristic prisons
7. reinstate the draft
8. end other social aide programs like foodstamps and disability
9. use at least more than 1 nuke, why the hell else do we pay for these
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tRump can do it in one. "Make America Great Again" Isn't that enough for you?
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Legalise drugs.
Free healthcare.
Disclosure - Full
Stricter gun control
Open borders
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Wow, that's one scary list you've got there, sounds Orwellian. I hope you're being sarcastic.


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Effective May 1, 2012 there will be a Peak Season Surcharge with a Volvo Overseas Delivery Tourist Program purchase. The value and cost of the two complimentary airline tickets has increased quite significantly over the last couple of years. The rising cost of oil and fuel charges imposed by the airlines, travel taxes, as well as the high cost of travel during the summer means the costs for tickets are especially high during the peak summer months. This surcharge is being introduced in order to be able to maintain the two complimentary tickers with an Overseas Delivery Tourist car order.
The Peak Season Surcharge will be applicable to all new orders received by Volvo after May 1, 2012 with a European delivery date in June, July, or August. The charge is $150 per traveler, so a maximum of $300 per car. This charge will be payable to the Volvo travel agency.
Please email or call me if you would like to order your Volvo via Overseas Delivery now, pick it up this summer in Europe and avoid the Peak Season Surcharge.


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Great Britain played their third test match in Salta against the Argentinean's in front of a capacity crowd and on live ESPN TV. Despite the British girls having won over many locals with their constant stopping for autographs and photographs at the ground and in the street, this was clearly a home crowd who were keen to see Argentina get their first win of this series.
It took Argentina just two minutes to give the home crowd something to cheer about when a nervous looking Great Britain gave away an easy penalty corner.
It was well defended and then GB broke with Walsh bursting forward to give Williams the first chance in front of the goal at the other end, but she was unable to connect with Walsh's cross. Another two corners for the home side in the fifth minute also came to nothing as one was swept over the cross bar and the other blocked.
As the game got going, so did the rain which was relentless for the rest of the match. Despite some good play from Great Britain it was the Argentineans who broke the deadlock from a 21st minute penalty corner which was slipped left and taken well by Alejandra Gulla to get a deflection into the net.
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