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Holy Trinity Church, Ratoath
14 October 2007
( 01 8256207
" www.ratoathparish.ie
Opening hours for the Parish Office: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 9.30am– 4.00pm
28th Sunday in Ordinary time
Day of Prayer for Emigrants
Lord, our help and guide,
make your love the foundation of our lives.
May our love for you express itself
in our eagerness to do good for others.
Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?
Not long ago I passed a homeless man standing on a street corner, talking to himself. I wondered about his life story and what sustained him interiorly. The gospel story today is also about strangers. Did Jesus question who the ten lepers were when they cried out to be healed? He seems not to have been concerned about their personal history, religion or ethnicity but immediately heals them as they go on their way.
Jesus does care about the foreigner who returns to give thanks, and Jesus commends the stranger for his faith. As with the leper, or the homeless person on a street corner, we do not know what stirs within the stranger's heart. What we do know is that there is still far too much bias, prejudice, false judgement and intolerance in our world. This gospel story leads us to ask : Am I open and welcoming to those who are different from myself? Am I willing to receive them without judgement as Jesus received the ten lepers and be a source of loving presence of them?
Sr. Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.
Next Sunday is Mission Sunday. Christians are invited to support the work of missionaries as they reflect God's love on the five continents. People are asked to give generously to the Propagation of the Faith collection which will be sent in its entirety to a young Church.
Congratulations to Alex Wall ( Steeplechase Green) Eva Tierney ( Foxlodge Woods) Analena Stobie (Steeplechase Wood) Katie Grogan ( Moulden Bridge)Roisin Ashmore ( Meadowbank Hill)
Oisin McCormack ( Somerville) Pearse Conway ( Jamestown Park) who were baptised recently
14 Oct
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
21 Oct
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lizzie Madden& Christy Donnelly
& John & Elizabeth Padian
Willaim Kissane
& Sandra Buttner
Patrick & Mary Cassidy
& Micheal O'Griofa
Brendan Whyte
Masie & Joseph McCormack
Teresa McCann
James Gray
& John Harmon
Michael Maher
& Mary & Peter Moore
Saturday Declan Sweeney
Church Ministry
New Eucharistic Ministers and Readers. If interested in either of these ministries, please ring the parish office or let Fr. Gerry or Fr. Patrick know.
Rehearsals for the Children's choir take place on Wednesday evenings at 7pm in the Church. Children from 2nd class and upwards are welcome to join. For practical reasons we have to limit the choir.
Community notes
Ratoath Credit Union: New Opening Hours: Monday and Friday evenings 6.00pm-9.00pm
Tuesday to Friday 9.15am- 12.45pm and 2.00pm- 4.00pm.
Saturday morning 10.30am-12.30pm. New members welcome. See our web site www.dunboyne.ie
Weight Loss Clinic: starting on the 8th November for 8 weeks. Look Good and Feel Better than ever, for more information ring 086 2235518
Ratoath Active Age: Meeting on Friday 19th October in the Community Centre 11.00am-1.00pm
Dunshaughlin Players, drama group, are hosting a workshop on Voice, on Sunday 14th Oct in Dunshaughlin Community College at 4pm. It will last for 2 hours and will be given by Kathryn Smyth under the auspices of The DLI with funding from The Arts Council. It is open to all Adult individuals and groups. For further information or to book a place contact Barbara at 8259441 or 087 6413408
The Venue Theatre: Thurs 18th The organics Jazz Ensemble. Adm €16/€14
Fri 19th Queen Tribute with Flash Harry. Adm. €26.50. Sat 20th: The American drifters. Adm. €30
A meeting of the Board of Management of Ratoath Senior National School will be held in the Parish Pastoral Centre on Thursday 18th October at 8.00pm
Important notice to all 3rd level students: County Meath Vocational Education Committee are extending the date for receipt of completed 3rd level grant application forms, together with all original supporting documentation to 4.00pm on Thursday 1st November 2007.Applications received after this date will NOT be accepted and will be returned to applicants.
Loreto Secondary School, St. Michael's Navan Open Night Monday 22nd October 2007 at 8pm.
Positive parenting (Dowdstown House) on Monday 15th October.
Tania Finn, Clinical Psychologist will speak on 'Stages of your child's development'.
For details contact Dowdstown House, Dalgan Park at 046 9021407
The Forward in Faith programme continues in Dowdstown House on Wednesday evenings from 8:00pm until 9:30pm. This will comprise of ten sessions prior to the Christmas break. The course will involve an exploration of the Creed; our Profession of Faith,
and an exploration of the Sunday Scriptures each week (Lectio Divina). The course is presented in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. All are welcome, there are still places available. The cost will be 100 euro. The presenters will include Mr. Joe Tynan, (School Chaplain) Sr. Elma Peppard (Dowdstown House), Fr. Patrick Donnelly (Ratoath) and Fr. Brendan Ludlow (Navan) For more information contact the parish office.


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Bacon in baked goods. It's hardly a new thing, but it has enjoyed a bit of a vogue in recent years, showing up in everything from chocolates to brownies to cupcakes…and now, chocolate chip cookies.
When I visited Volunteer Park Cafe for the first time the other day with my buddies Neil and Judy, we tried out their "Miss Piggy" cookie–a generously sized chocolate chip cookie studded with bacon bits.
In general, I don't seek out bacon in baked goods, feeling like it's more often a shock-value addition than something intended to really bring out the flavors–but in this case, I must say, it actually worked. The bacon was used sparingly, so depending on the bite you took, you might taste it moderately or only slightly, but it was never overpowering–more like a faint salty-sweet aftertaste. Overall we all agreed that perhaps the bacon could have been slightly more crisp, but that it was a pretty successful use of sweet and savory.
What do you think about bacon in baked goods? A trend that has passed? Too disgusting to try? Or delicious?
The Miss Piggy Cookie, Volunteer Park Cafe (call for availability); for more information, visit their site.


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Search Contact Relationships
The Contact Relationships page in Apto allows someone to quickly see all of their coworkers relationships at a given company within the Apto org. The page analyzes the contacts, activities and pipeline activity related to that company and summarizes the information in one simple graph.
Additionally, many organizations choose to go with a public Company model and a private Contact model. While this respects users' privacy it can also introduce roadblocks into working with a particular company. The Contact Relationships page helps these organizations understand relationships by analyzing data that the user may not even have permission to see, and providing a simple summary that does not reveal any private details.
Accessing Relationships
Navigate to a company record in Apto to see the View Contact Relationships button on the contacts related list. Click the button to launch the contact relationships page that displays all the agents/users that have any level of connections with any contacts related to the selected company.
Using relationships
The contact relationships page by default comes with six columns
- Agent – The Apto user that has a relationship with the company.
- Role – The Agent's role in the organization. This is set by the system administrator.
- Relationship Level – This graph indicates the highest interaction between the broker and contacts within the selected company. See the chart below to see how relationships are categorized.
- Number of contacts – Number of contacts that the broker has relationships with (regardless of relationship level with the given contact).
- Last Activity Date – The most recent date that a contact was created, activity was logged, or pipeline record was created or updated.
- Connect – The connect button lets the user send a private message to the Agent listed
Understanding relationship levels
Relationship between user and contact
User is Owner of the contact record. Typically this is the person that created the record, unless the record has been reassigned by the person importing or creating the data.
User has created or been assigned any tasks related to the contact.
User has created or been assigned any events related to the contact.
User is part of a commission on a proposal, pitch, listing or project where one or more contacts are in one of the Apto contact fields such as Buyer, Seller, Landlord and Tenant.
User is part of a commission that is on a comp where one or more contacts are in one of the Apto contact fields such as Buyer, Seller, Landlord or Tenant.
Connecting with another agent
The broker can either directly call the user to get more information about the contact or send a message by clicking the connect button
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Students in MYP2 have begun the year with an exciting interdisciplinary unit (between Individuals and Societies and Physical and Health Education) exploring the impact of globalisation on nomadic cultures and the connection with sport. As part of this unit, they have spent the second half of this week at the World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata.
Over the last couple of days they have watched horseback archery and cultural performances at Kyrchyn Jailoo, taken in some wrestling and the
sports complex, marvelled at horseback tricks in the Hippodrome and enjoyed a lively semi-final match of Kok Boru. In between all of that, they have
also found time to go swimming in lake Issyk Kul and play games on the beach. The final part of their trip will see them visiting historical sites in CholponAta
and attending the closing ceremony of the Games.
The students have made lots of interesting observations about nomadic culture, which they have been documenting in daily reflections. They have been surprised by the number and range of countries competing, they have admired the different costumes and rituals of the activities and they have watched closely to try to work out the complex rules and scoring systems of each competition.
These real-life experiences will add a great depth to classroom discussions when the students return and we're looking forward to seeing the insightful work they produce for their summative assessment.
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novembro 2014 vol. 1 num. 1 - XII Congresso Latino Americano de Microbiologia e Higiene de Alimentos
Abstract - Open Access.
Effect of Somatic Cells Level To Lactic Culture Used in the Mozzarella Cheese Processing
Effect of Somatic Cells Level To Lactic Culture Used in the Mozzarella Cheese Processing
Coelho, Karyne Oliveira; Mesquita, Albenones José de; Rezende, Cíntia Silva Minafra e; Neves, Rodrigo Balduino Soares;
The subclinical mastitis is a mammary gland inflammatory reaction that is characterized by increased levels of somatic cells in the milk. The milk with higher somatic cell counting (SCC) shows alteration in the composition that alters the quality of the milk products. Somatic Cells Count (SCC) is a well know parameter used for milk quality evaluation and SCC increase is related to poor cheese manufacture which impairs the cheese flavor, texture and yield. Furthermore, the leucocytes antimicrobial factors which is up regulated in subclinical mastitis could inhibit the culture lactic development, impairing the fermentation and coagulation process of the product. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of somatic cells level of the milk to lactea culture during type mozzarella cheese production. Milk was selected from cattle with SCC £200 thousand cells/mL; CCS Andamp;gt;200 a £400 thousand cells/mL e CCS Andamp;gt;400 thousand cells/mL as well as cows that have not been antimicrobial treated on the days prior to the raw material collection. The cheese was produced at Plant of Dairy Training Centre Agência Rural from Goias state. Acid lacteal bacterial count, clot time and consistency of the clot were evaluated during the fermentation process and storage of the product. Ccompletely randomized blocks with three repetitions were used as an experimental design. In the statistical analyses variance analysis was used follow by Turkey test, considering significant p400 thousand cells/mL, and lower culture lactea count as well. It was concluded that the increase of SCC has a negative influence to milk culture used in mozzarella cheese manufacturing. The results showed here demonstrated that in order to get a good quality mozzarella cheese is necessary the utilization of the milk with somatic cell counts bellow 400.000 cells /mL.
Palavras-chave: fermentation, mastitis, milk, quality,
DOI: 10.5151/foodsci-microal-222
Referências bibliográficas
Como citar:
Coelho, Karyne Oliveira; Mesquita, Albenones José de; Rezende, Cíntia Silva Minafra e; Neves, Rodrigo Balduino Soares; "Effect of Somatic Cells Level To Lactic Culture Used in the Mozzarella Cheese Processing", p. 435-436 . In: Proceedings of the XII Latin American Congress on Food Microbiology and Hygiene [=Blucher Food Science Proceedings, v.1, n.1].
São Paulo: Blucher,
ISSN 2359-201X, DOI 10.5151/foodsci-microal-222
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Domestic rats love attention! most are big on snuggling with their human day in and day out. Rats are very hygienic housemates and can even be litter trained to make cage cleaning easier! They can do tricks, understand their names, and identify different human family members! Their tails, that some erroneously think are "creepy," help them balance while they run and climb. Sometimes they even use it to wrap around a favorite human's arm while napping. They're very affectionate little creatures!
Each foot is 3" long and can be ordered as iron-on or sew-on. Sew-on patches are intended to be sewn on with a machine, and iron-on patches will come with instructions.
Original artwork is my own, and was made for my own use. I created the vector based on a photo that I took of my aunt's rat, Maggie.


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This PoD Business Networking group is in START-UP and we are currently looking for founding members to secure their exclusive places so that the PoD can officially launch when we have 11-12 members. To secure your place all you have to do is pay the one-off registration fee. Annual membership becomes due when the PoD reaches 12 members and this is when your 12 months membership will commence.
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"the effective centre of an activity, region, or network"
The PoD AU-NZ Business Network (formally known as BoB Clubs Australia and BoB Clubs NZ) provides membership and professional breakfast, brunch and lunch business networking meetings known as 'Business PoDs' throughout Australia and New Zealand. Our focus is on building a Trans-Tasman quality business network with a major emphasis on forming genuine relationships in a pressure free, friendly business networking environment. Our thriving professional business community is made up of inspiring individuals keen to connect and they continue to be our major motivator as we build, innovate and grow.
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Haynes and Boone, LLP
2323 Victory Ave., Suite 700
Haynes and Boone, LLP will be presenting a program entitled Sink or Swim: Critical Insurance Issues for Property/Asset Managers on Tuesday, October 31. Risk management has always been essential for property management, private equity and real estate firms. But with the advent of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and other natural disasters domestically and abroad, it has never been more important to maximize insurance.
Please join us for a panel discussion providing practical tips on navigating insurance to address critical risks confronting property and asset managers, including the following topics:
Who should attend:
Property Managers, Asset Managers, In-House Counsel and Risk Managers for Property Management, Private Equity and Real Estate Firms
CLE Credit:
Texas: This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.5 credit hours.
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Marcel Proust precious items on sale at Paris auction
Intimate letters and family photographs that belonged to the celebrated French writer Marcel Proust are being sold at auction in Paris.
Among the items is an original signed edition of Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past.
After Proust's death in 1922 the collection passed to his brother Robert. A great-great-niece is selling the items at Sotheby's auction house.
There are boyhood photos of Proust and Man Ray's image of him on his deathbed.
One of the photos, dated 1896, shows Proust with his secret lover Lucien Daudet. Proust's mother had ordered him to destroy all copies of it.
There is also a letter from Proust to another lover, the pianist Reynaldo Hahn, whom he describes as "really the person who, besides mummy, I love most of all in the world".
The collection, put up for auction by Patricia Mante-Proust, is valued at between €520,000 (£396,000; $580,000) and €740,000.
The seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past is considered a literary masterpiece, rich in personal memories, the most famous being the evocative taste of a madeleine bun dipped in tea.


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Joshua Jackson is back
In December, Joshua Jackson left for a trip around the world that was supposed to last 21 days. During that time, his long-time partner Diane Kruger was reportedly seen making out with Norman Reedus at a dive bar in NYC. Click here for a refresher. Both Diane and Norman denied that that's what went down.
Here's Joshua in New York last night making his first official public appearance since his return, and since whatever it was that did or didn't happen between Diane and Norman, to promote Smart People, his off-Broadway debut. Previews begin January 26 and opening night is on February 11. As you can see, Creed's Tessa Thompson is also in the play. And no sign of Diane, although that's not unusual as Joshua was with the cast and it's not like it was a premiere.
Just after Christmas Joshua regrammed one of Diane's posts – click here to see. It's subtle…but maybe that's a sign?
Still, they haven't been seen together in a while. And when you factor in that Norman Reedus situation, it's understandable why there's even more speculation now about whether or not she and Joshua are making it work. How are your smutty senses tingling? Break up or no break up?


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A World of Music
You'll sense it the moment you arrive – the strong musical tradition that is so much a part of the magic of the Cliffs of Moher and the surrounding area of north Clare. Here you'll find song, melody, dance and poetry that talks to the heart of the Irish way – set against the dramatic backdrop of the Cliffs.
This is Tradition Come to Life!
You may very well be treated to a live musical performance in the open air – a long-standing tradition at the Cliffs.
There can be no finer, more authentic Irish experience than standing looking out from the Cliffs as the waves swell, the birds soar and the wind blows – as you listen to the harmonies of a visiting band or choir.
From the serene beauty of a Celtic harp to the lively reels of a tin whistle player – THIS is tradition come to life.
Busk It!
Five busking pitches are set aside at the Cliffs, specifically for local buskers wishing to bring their talent to the Cliffs. 12 annual busking licenses are available every year – given to buskers who meet the scheme criteria. Buskers who perform on a regular basis during the year can have their licenses renewed annually.
In addition to this, students who are registered at recognised musical summer schools, such as Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, can apply for a day license to practice their skills onsite.
For more information on getting a busking licence please contact email@example.com.
Take Note!
Miltown Malbay is a short drive away and hosts the annual Willie Clancy summer school every July. It is one of the longest running musical festivals held annually since 1973 and is attended by students from all over the globe to be schooled in Irish music and dance.
The famous Kilfenora Ceili Band has its home in the village of Kilfenora – just 20km to the north east of the Cliffs of Moher.
Nearby Doolin is to Irish traditional music as New Orleans is to Jazz – home of the Russell brothers who led the rebirth of traditional Irish music in the 1960's. The Micho Russell Festival is held in February ever year.
Moher at the Movies
Over the years, the Cliffs of Moher have starred in many much-loved movies:
The Yank – 2013 – Wet Ears Productions
Blind Pass – 2012 – Midnight Pass Productions
Burke & Hare – 2010 – Ealing Studios
Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince – 2009 – Warner Brothers Studios
Into the West -1992 – Parallel Films
Hear My Song – 1992 – Miramax
The Princess Bride – 1987 – MGM
The Mackintosh Man – 1973 – Warner Brothers
Ryan's Daughter- 1970 – Warner Brothers
The Guns of Navarone – 1961 – Columbia Pictures


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At The Skills Show we provided all of the services to create a successful forum for vocational learning. From state of the art "Spider" feature areas, to social media areas and practical learning stations spanning all six halls of the NEC, we helped WorldSkills UK inspire the nation's future.
The show was a spectacular success; the team from GES were on-site throughout the event and responded to any of the changes a dynamic event such as this inevitably creates. The feature areas and stages worked perfectly and the I Am Made spider feature looked fabulous.
Mark Smallman, Director of Operations, WorldSkills UK - The Skills Show


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Dr. Ruth Ursula Mitchell, 85, of Apex North Carolina, died on January 7, 2018 at UNC Hospitals. Ruth was born on February 17, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents Vincas Stasys and Ursula Maciulis, her brother Fr. Bill Mitchell SS.CC, her sister Zita McCartney, and dear friend Charlene "Billie" Nelson. She is survived by her beloved dog Kiddo, her lifelong friend Marilyn Pesci of Indianapolis, and Sandi Barnes of the home, who lovingly cared for Ruth and Billie during the past decade.
Dr. Mitchell's education included a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy magna cum laude from St. Louis University (1954), a Master of Arts in Education (1964) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (1970) both from Case Western Reserve University.
She was a Professor Emerita in the Division of Physical Therapy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also served as Department Chair from 1975-1980. She was nationally known for her expertise in geriatric physical therapy and authored a number of publications on this topic. Prior to coming to UNC, Dr. Mitchell was Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Graduate Physical Therapy Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dr. Mitchell was the recipient of the Alumni Merit Award from St. Saint Louis University, 1977 and the Olive V. Wortman Service Award from the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association, 1991. She served on numerous advisory committees and remained active in physical therapy education, even after retirement. Ruth was beloved by her Physical Therapy colleagues throughout the country.
Ruth was a long time parishioner at the Newman Catholic Student Center Parish in Chapel Hill where she served as Eucharistic Minister, a member of the Parish Council, and co-leader of the Ministry of Care committee.
Ruth enjoyed fishing, camping, and photography. She also liked to travel, and several times visited her brother Fr. Bill, while he was a Catholic missionary priest in Japan. She will be remembered fondly by her many friends and neighbors for her quick wit, great laugh, and tremendous leadership.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 6:00pm on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at the Newman Catholic Student Center Parish, located at 218 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill NC 27516. Burial will be at All Souls Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday, January 20 (time TBD).
In lieu of flowers, gifts in Ruth's memory may be sent to the UNC Physical Therapy Division (PT Advancement Fund), care of Stephanie Phipps, Bondurant Hall, CB# 7120, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7130.


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The post-war years were marred by the calamity of the Great Depression in the United States, and Zeta Psi suffered with her natal country. The ranks of brothers at campuses across the nation had been decimated by war, and chapters had struggled to survive. Yet they had persevered—not one chapter went inactive in those years. But expansion was slow, as the chapters rebuilt their strength after the toll. By 1930, the nation had fallen into deep economic trouble, and students struggled to attend college, let alone accede to a brotherhood demanding of time and energy. Not only was the collegiate population averse to expansion; but in the meager times, campuses were reticent to open their doors and resources to new fraternities. Only two new American chapters were chartered during this period, Phi Lambda at the University of Washington in 1920, and Sigma Zeta at UCLA in 1924. The foundation of the Sigma Zeta marked another long step forward in the Pacific, as the first national fraternity at what was then known as the Southern Branch of the University of California.1 But the triumph in Los Angeles was not soon duplicated elsewhere: by 1930, no new chapters would be chartered in America until after the Pyrrhic economic boom occasioned by the Second World War.
Several chapters foundered during these times when campus men were called from academics for national service: the Lambda Psi at Wisconsin lapsed in 1933, as did the Alpha at Columbia in 1938, as war beckoned ominously; the Alpha Epsilon chapter at Illinois would fall inactive in 1946, and the Eta at Yale in 1952, hobbled by brothers lost overseas and a dispirited student body.2 Fortunately, all four chapter would be revived one day, though some languished for decades before dedicated elders and brothers from farther afield recolonized the illustrious chapters lost to war.3
Indeed, it was only through the bold and munificent leadership of the few left behind as college men and elders alike were sent overseas after the perfidy of Pearl Harbor that Zeta Psi continued to thrive during the bloody conflict. Letter-writing campaigns and depots for the comfort of Zetes on leave were set up around the country, paid for by these few elders and leaders. Br Chester A Lydecker (Α 1914), as Phi Alpha through 1943, was the initial proponent of the outreach programs, launching the effort as soon as war was declared.4 But it was Br Arthur Harrison "Red" Motley (ΑΒ 1922), who succeeded Br Lydecker in 1943 as Phi Alpha, who kept the program going strong even as ever more brothers were shipped east, taking particular interest in the sending of personalized letters describing the exploits of their chapter brothers and their universities.5 Yet there was only so much succor those left at home could offer. By the end of war, nearly four thousand Zetes had served their countries, and not all returned.
Yet these decades were not without moments of profound joy among Zetes. Zeta Psi celebrated its diamond anniversary (the seventy-fifth year since of its foundation) in 1922, with festivities in its birth town of New York. Auspiciously, it happened that both the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans had elected brothers of Zeta Psi as their commanders-in-chief for that year.6 As was traditional for the two formidably influential organizations, the two men were individuals of substance and repute: Br Dr Lewis Stephen Pilcher (Ξ 1868), GAR,7 and Maj Gen Br Julian Shakespeare Carr (Υ 1866), UCV.8 Thus at a dinner held for Zetes in New York that year, the two commanders-in-chief shook hands and broke bread as brothers, rather than the leaders of two organizations still as militantly opposed as forty years before. Br Henry Thomas, the evening's toastmaster, remarked, "If the North and South had only placed the controversy in the hands of Zeta Psi, there would have been no war. At last the mistake has been realized, and now we see our two Brothers, each in command of his old army."
The institutions established under the inspiration of Br Comstock continued to flourish during this ebbing of expansion and waxing of consolidation. The central office had moved to New York in 1911, but only to temporary accommodations. A little over a decade later, in 1922, Zeta Psi obtained its first permanent international headquarters at the Zeta Psi Club at 31 East 39th Street in midtown Manhattan.9 Short years later, in 1928, the efforts at crystallizing the fraternities illustrious history begun under Br Piperson continued with one of the greatest efforts at redaction of the Zeta Psi history, the publication in 1928 of The Zeta Psi Story: An Informal Chronicle of Eighty-Four Years.10 The task was undertaken by Howard and Douglas Bement (Ξ 1896 & 1919), the latest in a long-standing lineage of dedicated Zeta Psi brethren.11 The expansive and meticulously researched codex recorded the history from chartering to the present of every chapter then extant, and has provided an essential reference for the early lives and achievements of Zetes into the future. Finally, in 1944 the institution of scholarship of which Br Comstock had dreamed finally became a reality, culminating in the establishment of the Zeta Psi Educational Foundation in 1947 with the appointment of Br Dr John V N Dorr (Δ 1894) as its first president.12 The idea had languished in the interregnum of the two World Wars, and only through the inspired leadership of Br Motley as Phi Alpha and afterwards did it finally reach fruition. In many ways, the lull of expansion provided the very opportunity for the greater brotherhood to form lasting institutions and realize fully the vision of Br Comstock.
Individual chapters as well used the period of slow growth to retrench and regroup for stronger future growth. For many, the time had arrived to establish the kind of chapter house which had begun to proliferate among fraternities in the late nineteenth century. A few illustrations of the more outstanding houses must suffice. The Sigma at Penn had obtained property in the late 1800s, but had not had the resources to develop it until the early 1900s, when it tore down the old structures and commissioned a palatial new house designed by the renowned Philadelphia architects Br Clark Wharton Churchman (Σ 1899) and Walter H Thomas.13 The Beta at UVa in 1923 and 1924 commissioned a chapter house after Jefferson's nearby residence at Monticello, replacing its smaller residence with one suited to the reputation of the fraternity.14 And the Kappa at Tufts purchased one of the prestigious manses along Professors' Row and renovated it for use as chapter house befitting the first Greeks on the Tufts campus.15
And while few chapters were chartered in America, Zeta Psi's presence in Canada grew dramatically. The Pi Epsilon chapter was chartered at University of Manitoba in 1921, Sigma Epsilon at the University of British Columbia in 1926, Mu Theta at the University of Alberta in 1930, Alpha Mu at Dalhousie in 1938, and Theta Phi at the University of Western Ontario in 1947. This rapid growth only furthered Zeta Psi's pioneering spirit in the north, as each of the new chapters was the first at its respective institution. The Canadian Foundation would be convened in 1939 to bring together the burgeoning Zeta Psi presence in Canada, and provide guidance and direction through scholarships, congress, and assistance for continuing northern expansion. With the war over, the legions of brothers abroad returning, and the institutional presence of Zeta Psi on firm foundation, Zeta Psi looked to the post-war period with optimism.
- 1847-1860: Foundation and Early Expansion
- 1860-1864: Zeta Psi in The Civil War
- 1864-1900: Breaking New Ground
- 1900-1920: The Challenges of the 20th Century
- 1920-1947: Troubled Peace and Another War
- 1947-1980: A Fresh Landscape for Fraternities
- 1980-2000: A Stronger Center and Sesquicentennial
- 2000-2014: Zeta Psi in the Twenty-First Century
- Zeta Psi's Greatest Heroes
1 Indeed, the Constitution of Zeta Psi had to be amended to permit the chartering because the Los Angeles campus was technically an extension of that in Berkeley, and the document theretofore stated that only one charter could be granted to any given institution. The early history of the foundation of the Sigma Zeta is given in the Bements's The Story of Zeta Psi, which the chapter provides on its website for the curious reader.
2 For example, the administration of Yale, even before the war, had begun the system of residential houses and eating clubs pioneered by Princeton to disbar Greeks from campus in the late nineteenth century (q.v. Note 3.13 supra). It was only after the war, however, that the administration banned formal rush in an effort to clean up the university's image after a series of scandals rocked the fraternities, particularly a Delta Kappa Epsilon instance of hazing in 1958. Greek life at Yale was subsequently effectively shuttered until its resurgence in the late twentieth century. The Yale Herald has an expansive story on the rise and fall of Greek life at Yale.
3 None would return with any alacrity, however. Lambda Psi would be inactive until 1997, the Alpha until 1981, the Alpha Epsilon until 1992, and the Eta until 1990.
4 Br Lydecker was also active in the Rotary Club in his hometown of Jersey City, serving as District Governor from 1937-1938.
5 Br Motley was a notable entrepreneur and businessman, rising from a position as traveling salesman for a brush company to a publishing magnate at the helm of Parade magazine, then the most popular Sunday supplement. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 7 October 1946 and inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.
6 The Grand Army of the Republic, of course, was the association for Union veterans of the Civil War; the United Confederate Veterans were their more straightforwardly-named counterpart for the South. The practice of each was so hold an annual "national encampment" which served both as a reunion and a recreation. By 1950, the last of the Civil War veterans had succumbed to old age. The GAR was continued as the SUVCW, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. They provide a roll of all commanders-in-chief of the GAR. The UCV was continued as the SCV, the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
7 Br Pilcher was a trend-setting physician, founding the Annals of Surgery and serving as an editor for almost half a century. A prolific writer himself, his extensive collection of medical tomes is stored in the Rare Books Collections at the Taubman Library at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Also cf. an original view of a photo of Dr Pilcher in his operating theater, and his granting of an honorary Juris Doctor from Dickinson, site of the original Alpha chapter.
8 Br Julian Carr's life, like that of Br Pilcher, is a veritable paean to the triumph of ingenuity and hard work. He rose to prominence promoting local tobacco interests, and served in the Third North Carolina Cavalry and witnessed the Confederacy's surrender at Appomattox, and was granted the title of Major General in the UCV and was commonly called the "General" by friends—indeed, it would be inscribed on his gravestone at Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, which may be viewed at the UCV's cemetery archives. He was major philanthropist of educational and industrial concerns, founder of the eponymous Carrtown near Chapel Hill, and a great benefactor of the South. He would posthumously be inducted into the Business Leader Hall of Fame. His personal papers are stored at the UNC documentary archive, and a brief biography may be found in the 1914 Biographies Catalogue.
9 Our international headquarters records briefly the history of its physical premises, dating back to before it was even constituted as an international headquarters at the head of the organizational structures recommended by Br Comstock.
10 Although the book has been out of print for many decades, it can still be purchased through various rare and used book-dealers. Amazon.com provides a useful gateway to several through its marketplace sellers.
11 The extensive and meticulous Bement Family archives collate the history of the Bements' history and accomplishments.
12 Br Dorr was an accomplished chemical engineer and freelance inventor. The Moline Foundation tells how he pioneered the novel idea that the lines down the center of highways encouraged accidents by forcing drivers to hug the median in poor visibility conditions. As a solution, he suggested painting lines down the outside of highways as well, thus allowing drivers to maintain safer distance from oncoming traffic. He was the recipient of the Perkin Medal in 1941 by the Society of Chemical Engineers, and endowed a philanthropic trust in New York, the Dorr Foundation.
13 The Philadelphia Architectural Society records that Br Churchman had joined the firm of Thomas, Churchman & Molitor in 1905 after his apprenticeship, joining Thomas, who was a fellow Penn alumnus. A story of the early history of the Sigma, along with the construction of the chapter house and blueprints thereof, may be found in Penn"s historical archives. Churchman's son, Charles West Churchman (Σ 1935), would become a groundbreaking academician and Nobel prize nominee in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. (His obituary appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.)
14 The University of Virginia historical archives provide photographs of the original residence and the new manse of 1923, along with images of the interior and blueprints. It also depicts the building today, looking remarkably the same as when it was first constructed in the 1920s.
15 The Tufts Digital Library contains a considerable number of images of the estate during the tenure of Professor Shipman, who owned it before the fraternity, and renovated as a chapter house for Zeta Psi.


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22 May 2017. By Xu Yuan.
China is considering a 19-month grace period before it fully implements its cross-border data transfer rules, MLex has learned.
The rules on cross-border data transfers will take effect on June 1 and cross-border data transfers by network operators must comply with the requirements in those rules from Dec. 31, 2018, according to a copy of a revised draft of "Measures for Conducting Security Reviews for Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Information and Important Data," seen by MLex.
The revised draft of the measures was circulated for discussion at a meeting convened by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's Internet regulator, last Friday. Participants at the meeting included representatives of foreign technology companies.
One article that has been of particular concern to foreign businesses remains unchanged.
Article 2 of the measures requires all network operators to conduct security reviews before they send any data abroad. That stipulation is not in line with the more overarching Cybersecurity Law, which requires operators of critical information infrastructure to conduct such reviews only before sending data out.
The revised draft removes one article which stipulates that security reviews should be conducted by the industry regulator when the data to be transferred abroad amounts to 1,000GB or more.
The draft also removes a requirement that asks the industry regulator to finish security reviews within 60 working days.
It is understood that the revised draft is not yet final.
On April 11, the Cyberspace Administration published a consultation draft of measures for soliciting public comment. The consultation period ended on May 11.
China's Cybersecurity Law and related implementation rules have sparked concerns among foreign businesses. Last week, a total of 54 business organizations from countries such as the US, Japan and South Korea submitted a letter to the Cyberspace Administration asking it to delay the implementation of the law, which is due to take effect on June 1.
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There are a lot of versions of the classic King Ranch chicken casserole recipe but the original is quick, easy, and has stood the test of time. Chicken, tomatoes with chiles, and onion are mixed with a creamy, rich sauce and layered in a casserole dish with corn tortillas and a generous amount of cheese. This casserole freezes well, travels well, and disappears fast – you can't really ask for more than that.
For this recipe you'll need: butter, bell pepper, onion, condensed cream of chicken soup, condensed cream of mushroom soup, diced tomatoes and green chiles (Ro*Tel), chicken breast, corn tortillas, cheddar cheese
So I normally steer clear of canned, condensed soups and y'all know it. Normally any recipe is better with homemade sauce.
I do make this King Ranch chicken with a homemade sauce and a few substitutions from time to time but, to be perfectly honest, my family eats the original version better than anything else I've come up with. Either I've failed as a food blogger mom OR the original version is just that yummy. You can decide for yourself.
I originally posted this recipe in 2008 but when I was searching through the blog posts I couldn't find it anywhere. I have no idea what happened to it but I thought I'd better add it back on the blog.
This is a 1950s Junior League kind of recipe. I don't think anyone knows where it got started but it's a classic type of mid-century casserole. Definitely the kind I grew up on. You have to kind of miss those days when it was fine to eat a ton of sodium and fat. No one ever looked down on my mom because she made a casserole with ingredients out of a can. Cooking in the 1950s and 60s was a quick and easy kind of thing.
As a food writer I feel like I have a certain responsibility to inspire y'all to make amazing food with fresh ingredients. I'd be a liar if I said that I never used convenience foods. Even boxed mac and cheese sometimes, y'all – oh the horror!
Social media has created a generation of women who constantly feel judged for how they parent, how they clean their homes, how they dress, and how they cook. That's not even an extensive list of things we are judged on. When you are a food writer you add several categories to that list. Most food bloggers have a tough time admitted that sometimes the recipes are puke-worthy rather than drool-worthy. Sometimes I glance furtively around at the grocery store hoping that no one who "knows" me sees me buying corn dogs. I've considered wearing a trench coat and pair of the fake glasses with the nose and moustache (mustache, moustache – both correct) on shopping days.
My kids eat sugary cereals and pop tarts. All but one prefers boxes mac and cheese to homemade AND they'd rather eat at Whataburger than one of my gourmet meals. I used to fight it but I finally realized that I don't have to impress anyone with my clean eating habits, my cooking skills, or my menu. Somedays I have client work that keeps me so busy that I'm thrilled for them to be able to microwave a couple of corn dogs and open a can of green beans.
That, my friends, is reality.
The images that I put on the blog are carefully arranged to look fantastic – or as fantastic as I can make it look. The food I put in front of my family rarely gets plated like that. Like you, we're a busy group of people and I'm tired of trying to be Pinterest perfect.
I am saying this to say that I hope when you read Restless Chipotle (and Lowcarb-ology) that you don't feel like the recipes are something you have to live up to. I hope that you see them as every day comfort food that fits your lifestyle. I hope you are comfortable substituting canned soup for a sauce when you just don't have time to make it from scratch. And I hope you never feel diminished because of it.
Casseroles like this King Ranch chicken are a life saver for busy people. I like to make a double batch and freeze one for those times when my life is spinning out of control OR someone from church needs dinner. You can freeze this for up to 6 months with no problem and, full disclosure, I once found one in the freezer that was over a year old and it tasted fine.
Please don't tell anyone – I'm still struggling with the Pinterest Perfect Persona.
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I am of the opinion that pretty things make life more livable. I *could* make this King Ranch Chicken in any old oven proof container but making it in a pretty casserole dish just gives me joy. A casserole carrier is a great way to take your casserole on the road when your heading to a pot luck or taking someone a meal.
Original King Ranch Chicken Casserole Recipe
This is absolute comfort food! It's so easy to make – you can even make it ahead of time. Book mark this recipe – it's right up there with smothered chicken on the yum scale!
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- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup bell pepper,, chopped
- 1/2 cup onion,, chopped
- 1 condensed cream of chicken soup,, 10-3/4 ounce can
- 1 condensed cream of mushroom soup,, 10-3/4 ounce can
- 1 can diced tomatoes & green chilies,, 10 ounce, undrained - I use Ro*Tel
- 2 cups chicken breast,, cooked and diced
- 12 corn tortillas,, 6 inch, cut into bite-size pieces
- 2 cups Cheddar cheese,, shredded- about 8-ounces
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Grease or spray 13x9-inch baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Add diced bell pepper and onion.
- Cook, stirring often, about 5 minutes or until tender.
- Stir in both soups, undrained tomatoes with chiles, and chicken.
- Add about 1/2 of the tortillas to the bottom of the baking dish.
- Top with chicken mixture.
- Sprinkle with cheese.
- Repeat layers ending with cheese.
- Bake covered for 20 minutes then remove the cover and bake 20 minutes more.
- Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
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"At Sure Dental, our priority is patient care. We understand a visit to the dentist can sometimes be daunting for patients. To combat this, we provide various anxiety management techniques in conjunction with our exceptional personalised care. This guarantees a comfortable, positive experience for our anxious patients."
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At Sure Dental, it's all about you! We have created a unique patient experience that aims to treat each of our patients with the attention and care they deserve. We have created a comfortable, tranquil environment to help patients feel relaxed and cared for from the moment they arrive to well after they leave.
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Concentration risk and investment manager risk are two of the perils you will face when investing in a portfolio of risky assets. Even what may appear to be a balanced and well-diversified portfolio -- with many types of assets and collection of various sectors in the economy -- can expose you to one or both types of risks. Understanding these risks will help you better cope with them and make you a smarter investor.
Diversification and Covariance
When investing in the stock market, you shouldn't put all your eggs into a single basket, but instead buy a portfolio of stocks. However, the relationships of the stocks in your portfolio matter as much as the number of stocks. If the stocks are highly correlated, which means they have a tendency to go up and down together, you don't gain much from adding more stocks. Such stocks are said to exhibit high covariance. Instead, you want stocks with low covariance -- stocks whose up and down movements are as independent of each other as possible.
Concentration Risk
Assume you buy a mutual fund, which has invested in 100 stocks. You sleep soundly at night until one day you note that the fund's total value is down 10% in a day. Upon closer inspection, you realize that almost half of the fund's money was invested in transportation stocks, such as trucking companies, airlines and freight carriers. A look at newspapers reveals that the sharp rise in fuel prices hit all transportation stocks since these companies use massive quantities of fuel. This is concentration risk. Despite holding many stocks, a large number of them were exposed to the same risk factors.
Investment Manager Risk
Investment manager risk is a broad term that encompasses essentially all losses arising from the mistakes, negligence and incompetency of the managers in charge of a financial portfolio. The category is so broad that without further clarification of which kind of mistake the investment manager has made, it's relatively meaningless. Concentration risk, for example, is a type of investment manager risk. After all, it is the failure of the investment manager to select a diversified portfolio that results in concentration risk. Essentially all kinds of risks except unforeseeable risk factors, political interventions and broad economic crisis fall under the heading of investment manager risk.
Deliberate Risk
The level of concentration and total risk that are proper in a given setting depend on various factors. For example, if a portfolio manager has a clear strategy to focus on the transportation sector with the full understanding that an oil price shock will hurt the portfolio badly, this lack of diversification may be fine. As long as investors understand the risks, and the investment manager is capable of riding the waves in the market skillfully, a 10% loss is not insurmountable. Great managers have recovered from bigger losses. Therefore, the risk and concentration in a portfolio should be evaluated within the proper context.
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Howard Carlson, age 90 of Granger and formerly of Gowrie, passed away on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at Thomas Rest Haven in Coon Rapids, IA. Memorial services will be held on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2715 Iowa St., Perry, IA. Visitation will be on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 beginning at 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. A private family graveside will be held in the Allison Cemetery at Allison, IA.
Howard Walfred Carlson, son of Eric Walfred and Ethel Agnes (Schuett) Carlson, was born June 9, 1927 at his parents' home near Washta in Cherokee County, IA and passed away October 21, 2017 at Thomas Rest Haven in Coon Rapids, IA at the age of 90. He was baptized into the Christian faith on October 16, 1938 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Marcus, IA and confirmed in that faith March 25, 1945 at St. John Lutheran Church, Cushing, IA. He attended rural schools at Tilden #8, Cherokee County, IA and Garfield #4, Ida County, IA and graduated from Washta High School in 1945. He entered the United States Army at Ft. Snelling, MN May 8, 1946 and trained at Camp Polk in Louisiana. He was stationed at Inchon, Korea and served with the 51st Military Police Battalion. He was also an automotive mechanic and motor pool driver during that time until he was honorably discharged October 20, 1947. He was united in marriage with Lois Elizabeth Botcher May 20, 1949 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Cherokee, IA. They were the parents of two children, Douglas and Connie.
Howard was a tiller of the soil and farmed near Cushing, Galva, and Nemaha, IA until moving to Callender, IA in 1973 to continue his love of farming. Howard was a skilled welder and during the winter months he worked at several manufacturers in Sac City and Albert City, Iowa. After moving to Gowrie, IA in 1993, he continued working as a farm laborer until his retirement in 2003. Although farming was the most fulfilling job in his life, Howard enjoyed bowling and fishing when farm work permitted, and he and Lois also spent many hours dancing at the Bohemian Hall near Ft. Dodge, IA. After losing his first wife Lois to cancer May 20, 1999, which was their 50th wedding anniversary day, Howard married his next dancing partner Betty Anderson Emery at Trinity Lutheran Church, Perry, IA on June 30, 2002. They made their home in Granger, IA. After their marriage they also enjoyed dancing at many places in the Midwest and traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada including Hawaii and Alaska. Howard became a resident of Thomas Rest Haven in Coon Rapids, Iowa in October 2016 and was lovingly cared for by the staff there.
Howard was a member of Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Callender, IA and later became a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Perry, IA. He was also an active member of American Legion Peterson Post #431 of Gowrie, IA.
Howard was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife Lois, a sister-in-law Jane Carlson, and three brothers-in-law, Robert Botcher, Irvin Harstick, and Ed Beinor.
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So, after moving to New York, one of the first things you'll probably do when you finish unpacking is some shopping. Sure enough, the seasons in the Big Apple demand a number of combinations of clothing for both warm and cold weather. Also, after a few weeks in NYC, expect to find out that you may need some more things. It could simply be some more plates or cutlery, or, on the other hand, some cosmetics or furniture. Regardless, after moving to New York is the time to save money, as the costs of moving to the Big Apple can be very high. To help you out with your choice of shops we've assembled a short list of places where affordable shopping in NYC is available.
There are plenty of shops where you can buy cheap clothing in NYC after your move
We all know that before any move comes the great wardrobe purge. You've probably gone through your clothing more than once, deliberating and donating. Alas, only to return the item back into the 'Yes' pile a moment later. However, when packing for your move to NYC, some clothes are bound to be unnecessary. And, especially if you're coming from the south, like moving from Florida to New York, you will need some warmer clothes for the winter. Here is where these few clothing stores come in handy.
Affordable shopping in NYC for the ladies starts with Bash & Bow
If boutiques are your thing, this is the perfect spot. Bash & Bow is located in Gramercy, Manhattan, and is a definite favorite for the locals. The stylish store combines the vintage feel of boutique shopping with the modern products every New Yorker needs. Here, you can find a variety of clothing to wear during all seasons as you're getting used to the NYC climate after the move. And, if you want to get to know your new neighbors easily, there are plenty of unique gifts to buy in this store. Be sure to check out their working hours on the Bash & Bow website and enjoy the inexpensive shopping Big Apple has to offer to the fullest.
If you're looking for a way to give back to the community while shopping, check out Housing Works Thrift Store
You've always wanted to be involved with charity, but, you simply don't have the money to do so? No worries. Housing Works Thrift Stores are a perfect chance for both affordable shopping in NYC and being generous at the same time. We'd definitely include this store into our after moving to NYC tips. Not only will you be able to take your pick of the selection of eclectic clothing at a great price, but also other items. The Thrift Stores sell accessories, art, furniture, and homewares, too. So, after your local NYC movers have finished unloading your boxes, check what you need to purchase. Then, head out to one of the locations in NYC where Housing Works has a thrift store and take your pick. When buying, you will be helping fight two of the most prominent problems: AIDS and homelessness.
There is a store in New York which can give you both style and affordability after your move: Ina
Ina may not be the top of the list for those who are looking for affordable shopping in NYC. However, if you've moved to the Big Apple and you love fashion, this will definitely be among your top spots. Ina is a store which offers a wide range of pre-worn brand pieces in pristine condition. It is on the list of our affordable shopping in New York spots because of the great price of these trendy or vintage items. Not to mention its own line of unisex clothes which are an absolute steal of a buy. Altogether, when the relocation is completely finished, explore Manhattan by visiting Ina for an economical, yet fashionable, shopping trip.
Discounts are another option for affordable shopping in NYC
Relocating to New York tends to be a pretty hectic thing if you haven't lived here before. First, you must start unpacking the moving boxes. Afterwards, there is plenty of neighborhood exploring to be done. You will be meeting your neighbors and trying to navigate the subway for a while. So, if you aren't a fan of walking the streets unnecessarily looking for boutiques, there is always the option of bulk shopping on a budget in NY.
Here are some spots in the Big Apple to consider visiting:
- Woodbury Common Premium Outlets – a place where brand clothing can be low-cost. This group of about 220 outlets is located to the north of Manhattan. It is a perfect spot for low-cost shopping in New York. The discounts can get up to 65% off on famous brands, after all. Though, be warned that there will be plenty of tourists!
- Bloomingdales – if you're relocating to NYC you already know this name. This is the most famous department store in the whole city, after all. It is great for shopping on a budget in Manhattan. Here, you will be able to find plenty of classy items for both men and women.
- Century 21 – Armani, Pucci, Prada, and Missoni at 75% off… Yes, we said it. Head to the Financial District to take your pick in one of these stores. If you're looking for great shoes, you are also in luck. If we haven't mentioned, you will definitely need a pair of comfortable, yet fashionable, ones after relocating to the Big Apple.
- Loehmann's – a favorite for both tourists and locals when affordable shopping in the Big Apple is the aim. If you pay this spot a visit, you will be able to experience the New York spirit after your move. With discounts at 30-65% off in designer clothing shops, it can get a bit hectic.
- Cosmetic Market – for miscellaneous cosmetics head to Midtown. This is a store which offers a unique opportunity for you to buy high-quality makeup, perfumes, etc. It is a true treasure for someone who's just finished a change of address. This way, you will be able to lessen your expenses for necessary cosmetics in the first couple of weeks after your relocation considerably.
Enjoy affordable shopping in New York after your move – as unbelievable as that sounds!


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For SaaS companies, there is nothing more important than working to improve your SaaS sales funnel.
Your funnel plays a critical role in your business, ushering visitors toward becoming customers and keeping those customers on board after they begin to use your platform.
There is always room to improve, and failing to audit and optimize your SaaS sales funnel is only leaving money on the table.
After fighting so hard to launch your business, foregoing funnel optimization can undercut your hard work and keep your company from reaching its potential.
For SaaS companies to grow reliably, an effective funnel is an absolutely necessary piece of the puzzle.
A great SaaS funnel doesn't just convert leads into customers, it convinces those customers to stay with you in the long-term.
But, to properly optimize your funnel, you need to understand what makes a solid funnel and how to audit your funnel to find hangups and issues that are affecting your conversion rates.
To do that, you'll need to track important metrics that speak to the effectiveness of your sales funnel.
Important Metrics to Track
For SaaS companies, there is an endless number of KPIs that you can track, with more being added to the list with each passing year.
It's important that you don't get too bogged down in the stats, and instead, just focus on a few key metrics that speak to the health of your company in the most straightforward way.
Here are a few metrics that are critical to SaaS sales funnel optimization:
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is the most straightforward way to evaluate the health of your subscription SaaS business.
Keep in mind that MRR does not include one-time transactions, so for companies with a lot of revenue coming in through one-time transactions, MRR may not provide a complete picture.
Ultimately, MRR is probably the most critical metric for measuring the health of subscription businesses.
It also accounts for retention and churn.
How much money are you actually bringing in?
The goal of a sales funnel is to continually increase your monthly revenue with a steady stream of new customers.
No other metrics really matter if you find that your MRR is falling faster than you can attract new business.
That would speak to serious issues in your sales funnel that need to be corrected.
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
Customer Lifetime Value is a metric for measuring the profit that your SaaS company makes from each customer that you bring in.
It is an important metric for sales funnels because it sheds light on a few different areas of your business, most notably your ability to convert new leads into paying customers.
The initial marketing that you do in the early stages of the sales funnel set the stage for your interaction with a prospect and also plays a role in how long they subscribe to your product.
Knowing your CLV tells you how much you can afford to spend when acquiring a new customer. It informs your marketing, sales, and advertising processes in a way that other metrics are not capable of.
Calculating CLV is fairly simple.
To calculate it, you'll need to know your Average Revenue per Account (ARPA), your gross margin, and churn for your company.
Source: Profitwell
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
For many SaaS companies, acquiring new customers is the most expensive part of your budget.
Between advertising, the time and effort that goes into providing product demos, required software licenses, and other costs associated with bringing new customers on board it can really begin to add up.
This is why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is so important.
The metric provides you with a marker for how much you spend to acquire each customer.
It encompasses all costs associated, not just your advertising spend.
CAC speaks to the health of your business on several fronts and can be a great metric for opening your eyes to wasteful spending.
An effective SaaS sales funnel will drive down your CAC over time, giving your marketing teams more wiggle room to experiment with new traffic sources and strategies.
Additionally, CAC helps to determine your real profit margins while optimizing for customer lifetime value.
Luckily, calculating your CAC is relatively simple.
You take your total sales and marketing expenses over a defined time period, then divide by the number of customers in that same period.
Source: Profitwell
Conversion Rates
Your ultimate goal is to increase conversion rates throughout your funnel, both in terms of your overall conversion rate as well as at each separate step through your SaaS sales funnel.
By digging into the steps in your funnel and examining the conversion rate for each step, you can become aware of issues within your funnel that you otherwise wouldn't know existed.
Total Leads and Opportunities
Everything that you have read so far is moot if you aren't generating enough leads and opportunities to keep your pipeline full and sales team busy.
A report from HubSpot highlighted this fact, detailing how teams with fewer than 50 opportunities per month were more than 3x as likely to miss their revenue targets.
You can see the full data from the report in the graphic below:
Without knowing your churn, metrics like CLV and MRR aren't accurate. It is important that you have accurate figures for both customer churn and revenue churn.
Your customer churn is the number of customers that you lose within a certain time period, or how many companies fail to renew their subscription.
Revenue churn represents the lost MRR as a result of customers failing to renew or leaving your service.
Audit to Identify Problem Areas In Your Funnel
Before you can start optimizing your SaaS sales funnel, you have to identify where your biggest problem areas lie.
To do this, you'll have to break down the different steps within your funnel and identify exactly where issues are occurring.
Like any optimization split test, it may take several tests to truly identify issues and your first guess may not turn out to be right.
This can be tricky.
If you notice that your conversion rate from Step C to Step D of your funnel is much lower than expected, common sense would tell you that the problem lies somewhere in Step C.
Perhaps the way that you are conveying information is confusing or just isn't persuasive.
While that will be the case a majority of the time, sometimes the actual problem is found outside of the actual step in the funnel.
For instance, you might not have done a good job of setting your customers up with a basic understanding of your software leading up to that step, resulting in the lower conversion rate.
Without addressing that issue you may never reach your desired conversion rate without re-working earlier steps in your funnel.
The main point to take home here is that funnel optimization is a process.
Sometimes the problems within the funnel are not easily identifiable without experimenting and testing.
SaaS funnel optimization is an ongoing process, the work never ends.
There are a few questions that you should ask yourself as you attempt to identify problem areas within your SaaS sales funnel:
- What are your conversion rates for each step in your funnel and how do they compare to industry benchmarks? I am hesitant to recommend relying too heavily on industry benchmarks because every company and audience is different, leading to wildly different results. But they can provide some limited insight into the effectiveness of each step in your funnel.
- What have customers said about your funnel? What questions do they ask? Customer and lead feedback is the most important tool that you have at your disposal. Has anyone complained about becoming confused during the sales process? Have they asked questions about your service that should have been answered somewhere within the funnel? Questions from customers can be a great starting point for identifying points of friction within the funnel.
- Are you attracting the right customers? A low conversion rate is not necessarily reflective of problems within your funnel. If you are attracting customers that are outside of your ideal audience, you can't expect them to convert at a high rate. If you sell farming equipment but have a funnel filled with stock brokers, you can't expect success. Sometimes the problem isn't in the funnel but in your marketing efforts.
Auditing your sales funnel always begins with a guessing game at some level, especially with longer funnels.
It's just impossible to intuitively know where the exact issues are without doing some testing first.
However, using the data that you have on hand can help you to make educated guesses on where improvements can be made.
Use your KPIs and customer feedback to drive your initial split tests in SaaS sales funnel optimization.
Optimizing for Specific Personas
As we mentioned earlier, the type of customers that you attract into your sales funnel plays the largest role in its effectiveness.
If you have built a sales funnel for one type of customer but your lead list is mostly populated with another type, you're going to have a hard time finding success.
You can make changes to your sales copy, landing pages, and email sequences all day long, but if you are speaking to the wrong person those changes are never going to truly hit home with prospects.
All SaaS businesses should focus on attracting their ideal customer, and their sales funnel should reflect that as well.
Start by auditing your lead list to make sure that you are actually attracting the right kinds of customers.
The types of customers that end up in your sales funnel depend heavily on traffic sources and marketing techniques.
If you find that you are attracting the wrong types of customers, your optimization process needs to start there.
To convey the importance of this point, let's take a look at a case study from Jerry, a software development company founder.
Jerry was having a problem landing customers, despite having a good number enter his sales funnel.
He had run advanced tests on his website, re-worked his ad campaigns, and attempted to optimize his marketing across several channels but still wasn't landing any customers through his sales funnel.
As time went on, he became increasingly dismayed by the situation and started to try solutions that weren't backed by his data.
The first of these solutions was to reduce the free trial time for his service and add a credit card wall to the signup process.
These changes did more to hurt the business than help.
When that didn't produce any results, Jerry enlisted a growth strategist to help him identify what his issue was.
The growth strategist started by helping Jerry to define his ideal customer — the type of person that would immediately receive the most value from his software.
In doing so, they also talked about the types of customers that were wrong for his business as well.
With a stronger understanding of his ideal customer, Jerry was able to make changes to his sales funnel that were designed to attract his ideal customer and conversions started to flow.
Collect Feedback Via Surveys
If you think you have your ideal customer pinpointed but still aren't seeing the results that you'd like to, asking your visitors and customers questions can be a great way to better understand them.
Try sending surveys out to leads and customers to gain a better understanding of what matters to them and figure out what you can do to attract them at a higher rate.
Additionally, you can survey individual customer segments to gain a deeper understanding of each particular segment that you cater your funnel to.
For example, if you surveyed only customers that used your software for a few days before never logging in again and moving on to a different solution, you could gain insight into what they felt was lacking in your product or marketing.
Did your marketing communicate the wrong message to them?
Did it fail to address how it solves their pain points?
Did something about your software convince them that you weren't the right solution for them?
Creating useful surveys is part art and part science.
You can't just ask random questions and hope for insightful answers that help you to optimize your SaaS sales funnel effectively.
Be direct, and go into each survey with a goal to learn specific information.
Organize your data efficiently after conducting the survey and use tools to help you sift through it and identify patterns.
Customer feedback is an important tool in your arsenal, but conducting surveys doesn't do you much good if you don't know how to read and interpret them.
Use feedback from your ideal prospects to shape your sales materials and optimize your funnel.
Focus on Specific Problems & Pain Points
A common mistake made in many SaaS sales is to try to be everyone's everything.
Intuitively, it makes sense to position your product as a "wonder solution" to many of the ills that your clients will face on a daily basis.
But, part of the process of identifying your ideal customer is identifying what is most important to them.
Research has shown that focusing on specific pain points in discussions is closely tied to won deals.
Once you have identified their biggest pain points, you can zero in on a single pain point and present your product as a solution to that specific problem throughout the funnel.
Even if your product is more useful than your initial marketing would imply, that is something that they can learn as they go through the process of familiarizing themselves with your software.
A laundry list of features often doesn't lead to paying customers.
Most of your customers aren't coming to you looking for a long list of their issues to be solved.
They are looking for a very specific issue to be solved and anything that you can provide on top of that is just a bonus.
Don't try to be the solution to every single problem that your target customer might have.
Instead, focus on positioning yourself as the solution to their most pressing problems and let them discover the other benefits of your software as they begin to integrate it into their daily workflows.
Let that idea guide the content in your SaaS sales funnel, and you'll have a much easier time with the optimization process.
Common SaaS Sales Funnel Mistakes
Getting customers to enter your funnel and stay through the process of becoming a customer is difficult.
Conversion rates are low, no matter how great your product is.
However, there are some common SaaS sales funnel optimization mistakes that many companies make that could be holding them back without them even knowing.
Take a look at your own SaaS sales funnel and see if any of these common mistakes might apply to you as you begin your audit.
Too Much Content, Too Many Stages
Are you overwhelming your customers with content?
Are you giving them too much choice?
In the restaurant industry, a common mistake that new restauranteurs make is creating menus that are too large.
They contain too many items, and customers feel overwhelmed when ordering.
If they aren't sure what to order, it's easy to make a choice that leaves them feeling underwhelmed and makes the restaurant harder to recommend to a friend.
The same can be said for SaaS companies who are simply throwing too much information at their customers for them to digest — they can become quickly overwhelmed, tanking your conversion rates throughout your sales funnel.
You don't have to strip away features or hack your sales funnel to pieces.
Instead, try to identify where you might be asking too much of your leads. Simplify your sales funnel to hone in on specific pain points for specific customer types.
Create tightly-designed content around those subjects and cut the fat and you are likely to see your conversion rates rise.
Neglecting Lost Leads
When a lead stops interacting with your sales materials, what happens? For most SaaS companies, they are eventually thrown into a list of "lost" leads and are never contacted again, regardless of how good of a fit that they might have been.
Only 24 percent of sales emails are opened on average.
This means that many of the leads that enter your system won't end up buying, regardless of how well positioned you are to help them.
Instead, try to get lost leads back into your sales funnel through remarketing and email sequences.
Remarketing uses web technology to target ad campaigns to users that have previously shown interest in your products and services.
Source: PCG
Remember that sometimes the timing is just not right for every prospect.
Maybe they have to wait for budget approval. Maybe they were just conducting some initial research for a purchase they planned to make weeks or months down the road.
The point is that just because they didn't convert when you initially captured the lead, doesn't mean that they didn't have a genuine interest in your product.
Throwing them into a pile of "lost leads" is just throwing money down the drain.
Bringing It All Together
Auditing and optimizing a SaaS sales funnel is a tough task.
Issues could lie anywhere throughout the funnel, affecting the lead's journey. Identifying these issues often requires ongoing split testing.
However, using data and customer feedback to pinpoint problem-areas during an audit can help to simplify the process and provide some initial direction.
For most SaaS companies, the best decision you can make is to simplify your sales funnel.
Focus on converting a specific customer persona and positioning your product as a solution to their most pressing pain points.
Don't try to be everything to everyone.
Instead, try to be extremely useful to a small subset of your potential customer base.
As you segment your leads, you can create separate processes and funnels for each customer segment.
SaaS sales funnel optimization is an ongoing process.
There are always changes that can be made that will lead to positive improvements.
If you've never done sales funnel optimization before, use feedback and data to help you pinpoint problem areas within your funnel and get started.
Over time, funnel optimization will lead to higher revenue and a more consistent sales pipeline that puts your company in a position to grow.


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I know that song they're singing!
We sing that song while larping, except with a dwarf instead of a Scotsman.
Oh my god, Erika. Did you just out us as LARPers?
I don't think so. But I'm pretty sure you just did. 😛
here's a link to the song for those who don't know it yet:
I'm always partial to Oxhorn's Tauren version of that song.
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With the release of Leopard for OS X, the developers of Adium are working to bring video chat to everyone's favorite Mac IM client.
The gang at Macapper have a screenshot and some commentary.
For those that haven't used video chat before – it's a killer app. When I'm traveling, Merrin and I use Skype with video to stay in touch. The native video chat in iChat is good, depending on the network you're using, but Skype is probably the reigning king.
I don't want to get too far ahead of the release (whenever that might be!), but if video chat on Adium is anywhere near as good as Adium itself… CAN NOT WAIT!