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"Impact: 50 Years of CFDA" + Blowoff + Trash! 10 Year Anniversary Party
"Impact: 50 Years of CFDA"
Conceived by CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg and curated by Patricia Mears, deputy director of The Museum at FIT, IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA will be an ode to the illustrious designs of the CFDA's many members and will mark the organization's fiftieth anniversary in 2012. The exhibition will include approximately 100 objects, both garments and accessories, by the CFDA's most impactful creators of the last 50 years. Also included will be visual images and acknowledgement of the nearly 600 designers who have been members over the past five decades. Each living designer selected to participate in the exhibition is choosing a single object or ensemble that best represents his or her impact on the fashion world. A visually rich publication also entitled Impact, produced by the CFDA and published by Harry N. Abrams, is the companion book to the exhibition.
The Museum at FIT, Seventh Ave at 27th St, NYC, 212-217-4558, Tuesday-Fri, noon-8pm, Sat, 10am-5pm, Free
Bob Mould and Rich Morel return to NYC for another installment of bears, boys and booze in their natural disco habitat. Indie, elecro, huse and rock beats on deck for your total cruising experience… Oh my!!!
Blowoff, Highline Ballroom, 31 W 16th St bet Ninth and Tenth Aves, NYC, 212-414-5994, 11:30pm, $20
Trash! 10 Year Anniversary Party
The Studio at Webster Hall, 125 East 11th St bet Third and Fourth Aves, NYC, 212-353-1600, 10pm, $10


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The sports world awoke to tragic news on September 25th. Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez was killed in a violent boating accident off the coast of Miami Beach early Sunday morning. Fernandez was only 24 years old.
Jose Fernandez was allegedly in a fight with his girlfriend, pregnant with their first child, when he called some friends to go out on a late night boating trip. Although some of his Marlins teammates declined the invitation, he was able to take the boat out with his friends Eddy Rivero and Emilio Macias. Around 3 a.m., the boat crashed into a jetty and all three passengers were killed. Authorities are unsure of which man was driving the boat, but there were no signs of drugs or alcohol at the site of the crash.
Teammates, friends, family and fans of Jose Fernandez were devastated by this news. The Miami Marlins immediately cancelled their game on Sunday against the Braves. Teammates of Fernandez and fellow MLB players used social media as an outlet for their devastation. Marlins infielder Dee Gordon took to Twitter, while outfielders Christian Yelich and Giancarlo Stanton used Instagram to express their sorrow. Each post included a powerful and heartfelt message about Fernandez and everyone seemed to agree that he had a passion for both baseball and life.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly said, "The way he played, there's just joy with him when he played."
In addition to the sadness expressed on social media, tributes to Fernandez were made across the league. This week, all MLB stadiums have had a moment of silence for him and many teams have also made their own jersey with including an image of Fernandez and the number 16. David Ortiz even asked the Tampa Bay Rays to cancel his retirement ceremony scheduled before the Red Sox game in Tampa, out of respect to Fernandez. Finally, the Marlins made a video tribute for him, where every player in Monday's game against the Mets wore a jersey with his name and number.
Dee Gordon hit a towering home run in Monday's game and claimed that God helped him hit it for Fernandez. The Marlins all gathered on the mound after the game to celebrate the life of Jose.
Jose Fernandez's passion for baseball and life is what he will be most remembered for.
Baseball fanatic Rob Congdon said, "It was a tragic loss to see such a young phenom go."

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We express here our regret for the repeated futile attempts made by some parties to provoke sedition among the people of the South through social media, as well as adopting the fabricated news and use fake pages, publications, counterfeit groups and other obscene methods to defame others, and fabricate mock battles between opponents and supporters with southern names in a way that violates the freedom of opinion.
The last of these lies and false allegations was the leak of a false statement about the southern transitional council that is directed against one of the southern traders and investors in Aden the capital.
We confirm that all legal and technical evidence will be collected and documented by all promoters of sedition and this fraud from the various social media outlets, and there will be a processing of legal memoranda for any defamation crimes, and any attempt to defame the Transitional Council will not be ignored.
We hope that everyone will not be dragged into any claims regarding statements attributed to the Transitional Council, unless they are received or issued first on the official website of the Southern Transitional Council: www.stcaden.com
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Take a day to check in with yourself, to calm the mind, reflect on the heart and center your intentions. Some times we are overwhelmed and don't even realize it, and it can take a toll on us mentally, emotional and physically. 🧡
Self-care is not a selfish request from yourself, but a necessary one. Rejuvenate all that makes you tick by unplugging from all that fills your thoughts, even for a moment. Remind yourself to breathe, fill your lungs, and then take on the the week with fresh eyes and an open heart.
Unplug and re-center for you, so you can accomplish all you dream as the best version of you 🦋🧡
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Introducing one of the biggest small-business assets since cloud computing
There are some things you just don't want to worry about — like where your Internet comes from, how your paychecks get routed, or if there's real beef in the hamburger you're eating.
It's easier for someone else to do the worrying, so you can save your brainpower for more pressing matters.
But these are 'normal people' concerns. What if you're an entrepreneur who's building a business? How can you stop worrying about trivial things, outside of hiring a workforce you can't afford?
There's a very real inflection point in the life cycle of a business when leadership becomes less about ideas and more about paperwork (literally and figuratively), when the CEO becomes equal-parts accountant, IT specialist and office manager.
That's a problem. Starting a business should be about your vision — not getting dragged down by the nuts and bolts of company operations.
And that's why the 'as a service' concept is thriving.
Say you wanted your company to run 'in the cloud,' would you go buy server, set up a network and build the applications yourself? Of course not — the process would consume valuable time and even more valuable resources.
Instead, you'd call a company that could lease your company some server space and do all the networking and programming for you. The result is the same, but done at a fraction of the time and cost. This is called "software as a service" (SaaS), and it's revolutionized IT.
More recently, the 'as a service' concept has been spreading to other time-consuming and costly parts of setting up a business and, now, it's made its way to office furnishing.
Why office furnishing?
Sure, office furnishing may not be the first thing on an entrepreneur's mind, but it must be taken seriously for two main reasons:
1. The aesthetic of the workplace is a major asset in attracting talent and managing productivity. However, taking time to design the ideal office can distract from your core business, potentially delaying the release of a product.
2. Buying furniture is a substantial capital investment, and could make a big dent in your company's seed money — money that could've otherwise gone toward product development. Also, a large furniture tab runs up your operating costs, and that doesn't look good to potential investors.
How does FaaS work?
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Once your plan is ready, all you have to do is select your favorite design theme and Swivelfly delivers it your office immediately.
Like other 'as a service' models, FaaS allows you to skip the expense and inconvenience of buying everything and instead rent the furniture in your plan — it's all included in a low monthly membership rate, calculated by the number of employees at your office. That means you can be flexible, easily adding pieces as your company grows, or removing pieces you no longer need.
The model allows small business owners to avoid the hassle and capital outlay that comes with office furnishing to keep businesses running at break-neck startup pace. Like SaaS before it, it's tailor-made for scalability — something every entrepreneur can appreciate.
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A STUNNING fightback by The Minstermen saw Terry Dolan's men come back from a goal down to overcome promotion chasing Mansfield Town with a 3-1 victory at Bootham Crescent.
Goals in the second half by Jon Parkin and Michael Proctor added to a first half equaliser by Lee Nogan to give City the points and continue their impressive home form.
Only Kidderminster Harriers have beaten York at Bootham Crescent since December, when Cheltenham won by three goals to one.
Two goals in the final minutes of the first half, one from each side, had left the match finely balanced at the interval in front of over 5,000 supporters at Bootham Crescent.
Mansfield scored first through on-loan Derby County midfielder Adam Murray. The ever dangerous Chris Greenacre twisted and turned, but was well stopped by Stuart Wise. The ball still fell to Murray however, who powered a low drive from 25 yards past the helpless Alan Fettis into the bottom right hand corner.
City responded well however and Jon Parkin hit the bar after a ball over the top, although the linesman's flag would have ruled out the strike had it found the net. Within a minute however, Lee Nogan netted his 100th league goal and the City equaliser by nodding in from Stephen Brackstone's inswinging corner to the back post. A Mansfield defender got a touch on the line but couldn't get the ball out.
The game had begun poorly, with both sides looking nervous. Scott Sellars hit a ball across the face of goal and a low drive from tall striker Andy White lacked power from distance.
City's passing out of defence was hurried and subsequently invited pressure from the visitors time and again. Stuart Reddington hit the bar with a header from a left wing free-kick from Wayne Corden, who was giving Darren Edmondson a difficult time on the City right.
Sellars hit a 25 yard free-kick on target, but well held by Fettis, while a Greenacre drive spun wide after a deflection. Andy White volleyed wildly over, while Murray poked just wide after a throw-in on the left. City were unhappy, either because they had put the ball out to allow Stuart Wise to receive treatment, or due to Greenacre who seemed to be fouling Wise with his arm as he held off the young defender.
The final chance of the half, before the grandstand finish, fell to Parkin, who was well found by O'Kane, as Nogan dummied the pass, but the lanky forward hit his shot across goal from the edge of the area.
The second half began with the first of many free-kick attempts by the experienced Scott Sellars. Leigh Wood was adjudged to have fouled Andy White 25 yards out, but Sellars shot was way over.
The same player then linked up with Bobby Hassell on the right, with Greenacre flicking a low cross just off target at the near post. Williamson for Mansfield and Proctor for City both hit tame long range shots on target, without really troubling the respective 'keepers.
In the next attack, the home side took the lead when Jon Parkin latched onto a fabulous long pass over the top from Stephen Brackstone, after good work by Darren Edmondson on the right. The former Barnsley youngster outmuscled Adam Barrett and lifted the ball over the advancing Pilkington to give City the lead.
Within a minute Mansfield almost got back on terms, with the excellent Adam Murray firing just over from distance, before yet another free-kick chance for Sellars. Stuart Wise and Andy White clashed and if anything the lanky striker looked to be the aggressor. Referee Beeby didn't see it that way and Sellars shot hit the bar with Fettis beaten. O'Kane cleared the rebound off the line.
City reshuffled with Jon Parkin moving back to centre half, with the dazed looking Wise coming off. Christian Fox replaced the defender, played in midfield as City reverted to two up front.
White got through almost immediately after the change, but Fettis claimed his weak effort, before Dolan's men stretched the lead further.
The excellent Chris Brass won the ball for the umpteenth time at the back before feeding Fox on the left hand side. The substitute in turn found Proctor sprinting away in the inside left channel. Having been caught by Nogan in the goalscoring charts with twelve, Proctor romped away, cut inside the last defender and smashed a tremendous shot past the helpless Pilkington for his 13th of an excellent season.
Stuart Watkiss gambled with just three at the back, replacing centre back Barrett with David Kelly, with yet another free-kick from Sellars drifting wide. Fettis then stopped a low curler from Kelly as Mansfield threw everything forward to try and get back in the game.
Substitute Craig Disley hit the bar with a looping header, one of three efforts on goal for the young midfielder, who scored in the last minute of the reverse fixture at Field Mill against City in November.
Aiden O'Kane cleared two further shots away from danger in an almighty goalmouth scramble when City made hard work of clearing a corner.
With Mansfield gambling at the back, Proctor should have made it four when found by Brass and Nogan on the right hand side. Although he was beyond the last defender, the striker was in his own half and clearly onside. He raced away but ended up curling his shot beyond Pilkington but wide of the near upright.
Mansfield had a couple of late efforts with Murray having a long range shot deflected wide and Greenacre hitting the side netting from a tight angle.
It was perhaps telling that it wasn't easy to pick out a man of the match for the Minstermen with so many players making a real contribution to the win. Chris Brass was at his best in the back three, alongside Stuart Wise and Scott Jones. Lee Nogan scored his 100th goal in league football, a tremendous acheivement for him, while Jon Parkin also scored before replacing the injured Wise in the defensive line.
Mansfield had their opportunities, especially from set-pieces, but no-one can deny that City deserved this victory, one of their best of the season.
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The total vision care industry generated $41.41 billion in revenue during the 12ME period Dec'18—rising by 2.5% over 2017 total revenues. Unit sales totals for the industry are still on‐par with the unit total sales from 2010 levels, indicating that most of the growth we have observed in the industry over the past 3‐4 years is resulting from increasing prices, new users entering the market every year and several select groups of consumers trading up and buying higher‐quality eyewear. Unit growth for eyewear product sales in the US grew by 1.3% during the 12ME period Dec'18—a total of 316.8 million pairs of eyewear.
With a majority of eye exams and Rx eyeglass purchases involving some type of MVC coverage or vision insurance, it is important to track the number of consumers possessing vision insurance or some type of MVC coverage. MVC coverage among the US adult population during 2018 has dropped slightly from our all‐time high reading of MVC coverage in December 2016. Currently 50.0% of the US adult population report having MVC benefits in Dec'18—down from 50.7% coverage in Dec'16, and also down slightly from coverage rates reported in Sep'18. As of December 2018, we estimate that over 127.3 million American adults have some type of vision insurance benefits. Thanks to a rising adult population (+1.2M to +1.8M annually), and thanks to an improved economy and higher employment, the number of adults with MVC coverage increased for about 8 years now after declining during the recession. However, the number of covered lives increased by about 0.5%(or 693K additional adults) during the 12ME period Dec'18 alone. In fact, compared to 2007 (before the recession started), the aggregate number of adults with some form of MVC coverage is up by 15.3 million from Dec'07 to Dec'18.
Of the 75.0 million pairs of frames purchased during the 12ME period Dec'18, most (49.5 million) were purchased with some type of assistance from a managed vision care plan. The remaining 25.5 million pairs were purchased without any form of insurance assistance. During the year‐ending period Dec'18 there were 800K more frames purchased in the US with the assistance of vision insurance when compared to 2017—which is not surprising considering the increase in the number of MVC covered lives reported above. As a result of the increase in the number of MVC "covered lives" in the US, as well as the increase in buying activity among those with existing MVC benefits, the portion of frames purchased with some type of MVC assistance has actually increased for the sixth straight year (Dec‐to‐Dec) time since 2008/2009.
During the 12ME period Dec'18, MVC insurance frame purchases increased among independent ECP retailers (+3.0%), mass/club retailers (+1.1%) and conventional chain retailers (+0.3%) with MVC frame sales among department store retailers (‐6.7%) slipping from previous levels during 2017. Demographically, MVC frame purchases increased during the 12ME period Dec'18 among men, adults over the age of 45 years old, people from higher‐income households (AHI:$60K+), residents from the SE region of the US and people using a state‐sponsored government plans (Medicare, Medicaid, VA benefits, etc…), and people using a standard, stand‐alone MVC vision insurance plan (VSP, Eyemed, Davis, etc…).
rticle was compiled from VisionWatch, the large-scale continuous consumer research study conducted by The Vision Council. VisionWatch contains useful industry data on lenses, frames, sunglasses, reading glasses, LASIK, contact lenses and eye exams. For additional information, please contact William Bradley at 703-740-2251.
Vision Voice is a monthly e-newsletter reaching over 50,000 ECPs in the Vision Expo community. It features articles on all things eyecare and eyewear including practice management tips, optical news and market updates, fashion trends, professional development and more.


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Onecom's aim is to provide a high level of service at all times but unfortunately, things don't always go according to plan. Complaints are taken very seriously, and at Onecom pride is taken in our service excellence. If you are not satisfied with any aspect of the service provided, please follow this process in order to make a formal complaint.
How is a complaint raised?
A complaint can be made through any of the following channels:
- Phone — 03300 888999
- Email — firstname.lastname@example.com
- Post — Customer Services Department, Onecom, Onecom House, 4400 Parkway, Whiteley, Hampshire, PO15 7FJ
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In order to to investigate your complaint we will need the following information:
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What is Agency Hackers?
Agency Hackers lets you meet other people who run agencies like yours.
Running an agency generates all kinds of feelings and pressure. And the only people who understand what it's like are your fellow agency leaders.
Not your team. Not your friends. And probably not your partner.
I'm Ian, and I started Agency Hackers so you can meet other people in other agencies. You can learn from them, make friends with them and get support from them.
If you come to an Agency Hackers event, you can meet other agency owners and leaders and talk confidentially about what's going on in your business – and in your head.
Who comes to Agency Hackers?
It varies massively – but the typical Agency Hackers person runs an independent agency with a headcount of between 50-80 people, and revenue of £3-6m.
Some are smaller – four or five people. And some are larger – 200+ people. You are welcome to join us whatever size you are and wherever you are in your journey.
What unites everybody is that they are looking for ways to grow their agency and do great work, without hauling themselves and their team over the coals.
A lot of people see the name 'Agency Hackers' and presume it's aimed at scrappy start-ups working out of a growth accelerator doing growth-hackery things.
It isn't. (Sometimes I wish I'd chosen a different name, but hey ho!)
What kinds of agencies come to Agency Hackers?
It's a stir-fry of advertising agencies, creative agencies, e-commerce agencies, PR agencies and more. We try to mix it up, because if it's too homogenous you don't learn anything.
How can I speak at Agency Hackers?
Agency Hackers lets agency leaders mix with, learn from and be inspired by people running similar businesses.
This means we're always looking for interesting people who can speak at our events – whether they're live events like Agency Summit, or online events like the webinars we run for our members.
What do you look for in a speaker?
Agency Hackers is about the actual craft of running a business. We look for authentic, crunchy war stories – told by people who run agencies themselves.
So great topics might be:
- An interesting mistake you've made – and what you've learned from it.
- New and original things you've done (or are doing) around marketing, culture or operations.
- Wins or challenges that others can learn from.
- War-stories about transformation or agency change.
- Controversial or unusual opinions about running a business.
What topics DON'T you like?
We don't really go for talks that are broad, vague, wishy-washy, or too "high concept".
Agency Hackers is about the ins and outs of actually running an agency – it isn't concerned with the health of a particular industry or technology. So we don't look for talks about "the future of advertising" or things like that.
We also don't like chin-stroky topics about human behaviour, global mega trends, or theoretical wisdom. If you think it would make a great TEDx talk – it's probably too broad for Agency Hackers.
Talks that DON'T work for us would be:
- How AI / blockchain is disrupting advertising and marketing
- Is the smartphone making us stupid?
- Is social media a force for good?
Who can speak?
Generally, we look for talks by people who are currently part of an agency business.
We do sometimes have talks by consultants – people who make their living selling stuff to agencies. But they're less common.
We've just found that agency leaders prefer to hear from people who are "living it" like them.
What kind of speaking formats are there?
We have lots of formats – so if you're not a natural public speaker, that's no problem. We will work with you to find one that lets you tell your story in the best possible way.
Formats include:
- Traditional stage talk with slides
- "Campfire session" – where you take part in a small discussion with interested delegates
- Fireside chat, where somebody asks you questions
- Webinar – where you either present or you're interviewed
They tend to be about 20-30 minutes long.
Do you pay speakers?
Not normally, no.
Let me explain. Right now, we don't really have the budget to pay speakers. We do cover travel expenses and put people up in hotels when they are travelling a long way.
It's not like I'm religiously opposed to paying people to speak. It's probably something we will look at in the future as Agency Hackers grows. But for the most part, agency leaders seem happy to come along and share their wisdom with a keen and interested audience.
It is actually quite rewarding to share something that you've worked hard on with a room full of people who are super-interested in what you did.
There's also an editorial reason, I guess.
A lot of the people who expect a fee make their living on the speaking circuit. That's cool, but they normally aren't right for Agency Hackers because we mostly choose agency leaders – not "thought leaders".
Professional speakers tend to have slick, polished talks – but they don't have that gritty experience we look for. (And they often want to talk about the abstract themes I've listed above that we avoid!)
So I'm really grateful to the people who speak at Agency Hackers – the events would absolutely not exist without them.
What is your speaker diversity policy?
Look, nobody has ever actually asked me "Ian, what is your speaker diversity policy"?
But it's something I've been thinking about, so here goes.
Basically I want to do the right thing – but I don't always know what the "right thing" is.
Diversity means lots of things. To me it means gender and skin colour. Diversity is something I'm mindful of. Every time I run an event, I look at our line-up and think: do we have enough women? Do we have enough people who aren't white?
Often, we don't. Not really.
I run Agency Hackers by myself. I think I have a very good eye for a story, and that I'm the best person to decide who speaks at Agency Hackers.
But I also understand that what this might actually mean is that everybody who speaks ends up looking like me. Which I don't want.
What about gender?
Right now, most of our speakers are white men in their 40s.
Looking back over our events 75% of our speakers have been male. Not good, right?
Perhaps one point of view is that this sausage party is just reflective of our audience. According to research by the Wow Company, only 23% of agency owners are female.
So maybe we're just accurately reflecting our audience.
That seems to make some sense to me. If most agency owners in our audience are white men in their 40s, perhaps we're just always going to have more of those kind of people speaking?
But at the same time, perhaps that a shit argument. Maybe you should always aim for 50% women speaking – because, well, 50% of people are female.
I honestly don't know.
I'll do one event one month with almost all male speakers – and then another event the month after with almost all female speakers. Over time it balances out, but if you come to the one with all guys you'll (not unreasonably) think that I don't care about giving women a platform.
Here's another problem: most of the time when people speak, they approach me. I don't have one email for men and another for women. I try to judge everybody on their merits.
Every time I add a woman to the line-up, part of me worries she will think she's only there because she's a woman.
Some people even say: "Hur hur – tick the right boxes do I?"
They are joking, but they aren't. Ugh.
People sometimes ask: "What are you doing to encourage more women to become agency owners?"
Answer: nothing. Here is why.
- Firstly, I don't really want to be in the business of telling women how to run their lives. There's already a lot of men who do that and it's not a great look.
- Secondly, remember that I am a man who doesn't run an agency! Imagine if I made it my business to go around lecturing women on all the reasons they should start agencies. Bit man-splainy?
- Thirdly, let's not forget there's nothing inherently holy about running an agency. Yes they can be rewarding and fun – but they can also be a proper pain in the neck. I'm sure one reason some women don't start agencies is that they're actually too smart. Maybe they're actually starting other types of businesses instead.
And what about race?
As far as I know, there are no industry stats on what percentage of agencies are run by people with black or brown skin.
But looking back at our previous line-ups, yep – they are very white! That's something I'd like to change. But I don't really know the best way to do that.
One very practical problem is that I don't actually know what colour skin somebody has until I invite them to speak.
Normally I find speakers by sending them a cold email, or when somebody introduces me to somebody. But unless it's obvious from their name, I actually don't know what colour they are until I go to LinkedIn to grab their speaker pic.
By which time I've already invited them to speak anyway. See the problem?
Maybe I should race-check people on LinkedIn before I even decide if they're a fit. But that feels wrong too. Ultimately I just want to run events that are interesting and enjoyable, and have an "honest" vibe about them.
Anyway, as you can see I'm still figuring this out and trying to do the right thing as best I can. If you think Agency Hackers could be doing better and you have a constructive suggestion to make, I'm all ears – get in touch (email@example.com)


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With Macon Magazine looking to renew its feature on "Women in Business" in their upcoming issue, Infinity Network Solutions jumped at the opportunity to participate. Infinity knows without the support of these four women, the company wouldn't be what it is today—the leading Macon-based IT Services Company.
Amy Anderson—Vice President of Operations, Susan Huellemeier—Account Manager, Jessica Peters—Sales & Marketing Administrator, and Wendy Brinson— Engineer, are integral to the efficient and effective operations at Infinity. Their core competencies are the basis for Infinity's IT Solutions, such as: Outsourced IT Department for Businesses, Unified Communications Systems, Virtualization Technologies and Cloud Computing.
Amy, Susan, Jessica and Wendy answered the following questions during the interview:
What makes your company unique?
(Susan) Our culture. We are all highly motivated and emotionally invested. We are very driven to give back to our community. We constantly are challenged to ask ourselves…is there a better way?
How has your company changed since you first started?
(Amy) Infinity has grown tremendously in the past four years. One of the big accomplishments is our company culture. Our CEO Rob Betzel has written a book on company culture.
What do you enjoy most about your work?
(Wendy) I grew up in an age where technology was just beginning, so seeing how it has evolved over the past 20 years excites me and makes me wonder what else can be done.
What is your biggest challenge in dealing with information technology as a service?
(Susan) It's a tough, competitive market. Client budgets are tight. My challenge is getting the client to focus on the value of that expenditure.
What trait has helped you most in business?
(Jessica) Being a team player. I am fully committed to the best end result possible whether for the client or our company, and I'm happy to help any coworker achieve that goal.
What trait has hindered you most in business?
(Wendy) Prioritizing—every client is equally important, it's just a matter of getting everyone up and running, satisfied, happy and maintaining your sanity at the end of the day.
What advice would you offer other women in business?
(Amy) Keep yourself educated. Whether it's college, specialized training or reading books, the more you know the more valuable you will become.
Where do you see your business in 5 years?
(Jessica) I see Infinity expanding beyond middle Georgia. Growth and change are the name of the game and Infinity is ahead of the curve.
About Infinity Network Solutions
Infinity Network Solutions is an Information Technology services company offering a variety of products and solutions to small to mid-sized businesses and public sector agencies throughout the state of Georgia. The company helps organizations reach their maximum potential through best-in-class implementation and management of technology.
Brian Betzel
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Government of India has initiated numerous steps to combat the scourge of Corruption and Black Money in the last two and a half years. The Union cabinet had approved a slew of initiatives in February 2016 to encourage digital payments and a transition to less-cash economy in a strategic manner. The Prime Minister had highlighted these measures in his Man Ki Baat address in May 2016. He had urged people to adopt cashless transactions. He said "If we learn and adapt ourselves to use cashless transactions, then we will not require notes. Businesses will function automatically, resulting in a certain transparency. Under-hand dealings will stop; the influence of black money will be reduced. So I appeal to my countrymen, that we should at least make a beginning. Once we start, we will move ahead with great ease. Twenty years ago who would have thought that so many mobiles would be in our hands. Slowly we cultivated a habit and now we can't do without those. Maybe this cashless society assumes a similar form. But the sooner this happens, the better it will be".
It would be recalled that towards this end, the Government had launched a major drive for financial inclusion in terms of opening Jan Dhan accounts, giving a statutory basis for Aadhar, implementation of Directs Benefits Transfer, introduction of RuPay Cards and Voluntary Disclosure Scheme for unaccounted money. Demonetization of 500 and 1000 Rs. notes was another important milestone in this endeavor. Following demonetization, there has been a spurt in the digital payments across the country and both the volume and amount of money transacted through digital methods has seen manifold increase since November 9th.


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Pet cat requires operation following near-fatal pellet gun attack by thugs
PUBLISHED: 11:18 07 February 2017 | UPDATED: 12:59 08 February 2017
The cat's owner is urging others to check their pets for signs of abuse
Thugs in Bexley have shot a pet cat with a pellet gun, an attack which the vet warned "could have been fatal".
Now cat owner, Julie Hubbard, 49, of Heversham Road, is hoping to warn other pet owners in the area of the "malicious, cowardly" attack.
She first knew something was wrong with her cat, Morris, when he lost his appetite.
Mrs Hubbard said: "According to the vet, this attack took place about 10 days ago. We did take him to the vet around that time as he had been off his food but as cats don't always show pain and there were no obvious wounds - other than a cut on his paw - we were none the wiser as to his more serious injury."
After giving Morris a cuddle, Mrs Hubbard found a lump under his belly.
"An x-ray showed that the lump was a pellet and the vet concluded that he has been shot with an air rifle, and that the pellet is still lodged close to his ribs. Fortunately on this occassion, it was not fatal but the vet said it could have been. He needs an operation to remove the pellet."
"We have reported the incident to the police, and would urge anyone with information about Morris - or any other malicious, cowardly attack on our poor innocent pets - to get in contact with the local police so that we can all pull together and get these sick individuals dealt with and taken off our streets."
Mrs Hubbard's son, Charlie Gladman, 23, added: "I just don't understand why anyone would target Morris, he wouldn't hurt a fly. I hope nobody else's cat has been hurt and that we find out who did this."
Urging other pet owners to check their pets, Mrs Hubbard concluded: "I don't think this was a one off incident on our cat, so please be vigilant and check your pets as next time it could be fatal. I just wish Morris was a tiger so that he could go and find the people who hurt him, and hurt them back."
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Although business lending requires the aggregation of data from a multitude of sources, there is typically only one financial institution managing the process. Trade finance and the facilitation of trade transactions, however, require complex coordination between businesses, their service providers and their financial institutions to ensure that jobs are complete and goods are moved before any money changes hands.
Communication is key to any relationship, but when data and documents are shared via phone and email into proprietary systems, information can be locked behind silos instead of readily available to the business partners who need it.
According to Mitigram Chief Executive Officer Milena Torciano, this challenge is only getting harder thanks to heightening anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) requirements, as well as open banking and PSD2's reach into the corporate banking sector.
"Trade finance ... is a vast, $6.5 [trillion] to $8 trillion market in annual bank-intermediated flows that still run on email," she told PYMNTS in a recent interview. "There is no digital exchange in trade and no central repository of data. There is no Bloomberg of trade."
The consequences of this current landscape spread from the front- to back-office of financial institutions.
On the front-office side, Torciano pointed to the reliance on email to share information and respond to each other, leaving each institution to manually record that data, increasing the risk of error. Manual data entry means limited analytics capabilities, resulting in lackluster underwriting and risk mitigation that hampers price visibility for both corporate traders and financial institutions, she added.
Meanwhile, in the back office, reliance on proprietary systems means corporates that are working with multiple banks have to connect to individual platforms at each interaction.
Torciano noted that this lack of efficiency is seen in the consumer banking space as well, with Open Banking and PSD2 regulatory efforts opening up potential for a more holistic end-user experience — a shift that is spreading into the corporate banking sphere, she said, as corporates expect "a transparent, streamlined and efficient way to hedge, fund and distribute their risks in cross-border trade."
Considering FinTech
Open banking and PSD2 also swung the doors wide open for third-party FinTechs to integrate into banking systems in pursuit of a better end-user experience. Corporate banking is also increasingly exposed to this industry change as well, and Torciano agreed that collaboration with FinTech is essential to addressing some of these challenges of data aggregating and sharing. No single financial institution could step in and offer the unified interface necessary to get everyone on the same page, she said; a third-party FinTech is key to filling this need.
However financial institutions haven't necessarily been quick to embrace that connectivity.
Historically, a significant challenge in FinTech participation in this space has been "banks' fundamental unwillingness to change," said Torciano. That unwillingness was understandable, too, she said, thanks to the highly-controlled and regulated data management and processing practices to which banks must adhere.
While there may have been mistrust and skepticism at first, Torciano said that today, traditional financial institutions recognize the importance of adapting to changing client demands for digitization — "especially when it comes from their top corporate clients."
Digitization of bills of lading, bills of exchange, promissory notes and other documents common in global trade have also supported the case for FinTech participation as innovators begin to digitize and automate various aspects of trading processes.
Innovators today are also looking at the big picture of global trade and the monumental challenge of connecting banks, FinTechs, businesses and other players onto a unified platform to share and access data in a secure fashion. Blockchain is often the buzzword when discussing how to tackle this problem, but Torciano warned that the nuances not only in back-office operating platforms, but in regulations, administrative processes, and even cultural differences mean blockchain isn't necessarily the easy answer.
"In most cases, it will be hard to reach a mutually-agreed framework which will be set above local laws, tax systems, cultural practices, etc., and require the entire system in the near to medium-term future," she said.
Mitigram, which offers a platform to hedge trade risk and connect commodity traders, corporates and banks, is instead taking a short-to-medium-term approach to addressing trade and trade finance friction, with technologies like natural language processing tools able to enhance functionality of existing apps and processes.
Transforming global trade cannot be done overnight. While banks and corporates consider how to streamline data sharing, the sector is also balancing stringent data security requirements as well as risk mitigation efforts that will shape the path of technological innovation in this arena. And while FinTech has stepped in to address both process inefficiencies as well as geopolitical and regulatory risk exposure, Torciano said FinTech itself can sometimes pose a risk — particularly as non-bank financial firms step in to fill the trade finance gap.
"These FinTechs are not regulated in the same way as banks, and if the trend [of shadow banking] continues, we could consider a bubble gradually materializing with a sudden squeeze of the liquidity — especially for trade finance — with a potentially significant, negative impact on the global economy," she warned.
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A Close-Up Look at Misty Copeland's Engagement Ring From Olu Evans
Shine bright like a diamond! Ever since the news broke that ballerina Misty Copeland and lawyer Olu Evans's engagement in August 2015, we've been dying to get our eyes on the ring that sealed the deal for the couple of 10 years. Luckily for us, the first African-American principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre has made several public appearances recently with her new finger candy that didn't disappoint.
We caught a close-up shot of Copeland's engagement ring at the American Ballet Theatre's 75th Anniversary Fall Gala where the dancer gave off a newly engaged glow in an elegant burgundy off-the-shoulder number (see the full look below). All eyes were on her enormous cushion-cut sparkler set in a halo and a pave band, though.
While little is known about the proposal and Copeland's wedding to Evans (who, by the way, happens to be actor Taye Diggs's cousin), she did recently reveal to E! her plans to have a "simple" wedding. "I get to become a fairy princess on stage and wear incredible costumes and gowns to galas so, for me, I just want to have a simple, as easy going day as I can have and just not have it be a big show," Copeland says.
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Leak again claims that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 won't have a microSD slot
We always suspected that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 won't have a microSD slot, much like the Galaxy S6, but the latest leak puts yet another nail in the coffin – and by now, there are a lot of nails. Leaker @evleaks has posted a list of specs for the Samsung Noble, a name known to be the codename of the Note 5, that ends with the suggestion of "no SD" – it's not particularly surprising seeing as Samsung has removed the microSD slot from all its recent devices, but we still held out hope for its larger brethren.
Rains->Pours. Samsung Noble (SM-N920/self-reported): Exynos 7420 SoC (4×2.1GHz+4×1.5GHz), 5.66″ 2560×1440, 4GB/32GB, 16MP/5MP, 5.1.1, no SD.
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) August 1, 2015
The other notable spec from @evleaks' tweet is the processor, alleged to be a Exynos 7420 – this is the same chip as the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, however we've been hearing conflicting rumours that the Note 5 will actually have the newer Exynos 7422. Obviously, we won't have long to find out which of these stories are correct as the Note 5 is due for announcement on August 13th, however it does suggest the possibility of different variants for different regions, which wouldn't be unusual.
What do you think about the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 not having a microSD slot? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Twitter via TalkAndroid
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- The wind is free, but the sand goes where it is blown. Unaware of the world around it. Whirling on the breath of the Gods, at the mercy of the storm that engulfs it. What is one grain of sand in the desert? One grain amongst the storm?


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More books from my Month of Rereading, which is still going strong and very enjoyable!
Henry James – "The Europeans"
(25 April 1999)
It turns out that this is the first Henry James I read when I originally started on him. A society tale of two Europeans of slightly doubtful aristocratic descent who visit their austere cousins in Boston, and the effects of their rather different way of going about things. There is a lot of commentary on the constraints placed on women in society, even unusual and strong ones like Eugenie (which echoes Hardy's "Hand of Ethelberta", I felt) and the equal constraints for men, and some perceptive comments on the relationships with the next generation up, the parents, and their views on the pair-bonding going on.
Reflections on rereading: I didn't remember much about this novel or James in general – I had a flurry of reading him and Edith Wharton in 1999, culminating in taking "Portrait of a Lady" on holiday to Tunisia that year, but I remembered that I liked him, and I like him even more on re-acquaintance.
My original review from July 1999:
I really had not expected to like this author, so this sort novel came as a very nice surprise. A witty comedy of manners, with a light touch and none of the turgid sentence structure I'd expected. Much like Edith Wharton, and very well done.
E.M. Delafield – "The Diary of a Provincial Lady"
(some time late 1980s)
Another sticky-backed-plastic-covered, "Elizabeth" labelled book, so dating from 1989 or before. I am sure that I've read this more than once already, but there's a gap in my records between when I stopped keeping up my card index to the reading journal and when I started reviewing books on LiveJournal, so I can't be sure. Charming, acerbic and semi-autobiographical diaries, published in the 1930s up to 1940 (oh, the poignancy of war novels published before the war ended) in Time and Tide, then gathered into books then this one volume of all four (in the Introduction, Nicola Beauman counsels against reading all four in a row in one big gulp – but if you've got them there, how can you not?).
The first is the classic Provincial Lady at home in her Devonshire village, and is probably the bets, but all have their charms as she becomes more well known for her novels and gets a pied a terre in London, then goes on a lecture tour in America, and ends up in trousers in a wartime canteen. Mademoiselle and Lady Boxe are marvellous supporting characters as are the more satirically portrayed ones whose ridiculous speeches are presented in an effective and droll way.
Thoughts on rereading: familiar as a comfy armchair. I have read a lot of books set in wartime since reading this last, but this does not pall and stands up well – you can imagine her encountering the ladies in "To Bed With Grand Music" and not thinking much of them, for example. Eminently readable and rereadable.
I amused myself by noting instances of other Virago books and Persephones being mentioned (there is a thread on the Virago Readers LibraryThing group on this very matter): here is what I found without looking very hard:
February 28th – Notice, and am gratified by, appearance of large clump of crocus near the front gate. Should like to make whimsical and charming references to these, and try to fancy myself as "Elizabeth of the German Garden", but am interrupted by Cook, saying that the Fish is here, but he's only brought cod and haddock, and the haddock doesn't smell any too fresh, so what about cod? Have often noticed that Life is like that. (Provincial Lady; p. 37)
September 5th – … dine on sausage-and-mash at Lyons establishment opposite to pallid young man who reads book mysteriously shrouded in holland covers. Feel that I must discover what this is at all costs, and conjectures waver between "The Well of Loneliness" and "The Colonel's Daughter", until title can be spelt out upside down, when it turns out to be "Gulliver's Travels". (PL Goes Further; p. 169)
October 17th – … I say that I have enjoyed nothing so much as "Flush", but Miss Paterson again disconcerts me by muttering that to write a whole book about a dog is Simply Morbid. (PL in America; p. 289)
November 27th – … Miss Ramona Herdman and I then proceed to book-store, where we meet head of department, Mrs. Kooker. Talk about Vera Brittain – "Testament of Youth" selling superbly, says Mrs. K … (PL in America; p. 347)
October 3rd … What, I enquire in order to gain time, does Mrs. Peacock like in the way of books? In times like these, she replies very apologetically indeed, she thinks a novel is practically the only thing. Not a detective novel, not a novel about politics, nor about the unemployed, nothing to do with sex, and above all not a novel about life under Nazi regime in Germany. Inspiration immediately descends upon me and I tell her without hesitation to read a delightful novel called "The Priory" by Dorothy Whipple, which answers all requirements, and has a happy ending into the bargain. Mrs Peacock says it seems too good to be true, and she can hardly believe that any modern novel is as nice as all that, but I assure her that it is, and that it is many years since I have enjoyed anything so much. (PL in Wartime; p. 434)
October 3rd … Finally retire to bed with "The Daisy Chain" wishing we were all back in the England of the 'fifties. (PL in Wartime; p. 434)
And rather amusingly, given that Persephone now publish this book, Nicola Beauman in her Introduction, written in 1984, when talking about how The Servant Problem loomed large in people of this era's lives, says:
"How to Run your Home Without Help", a book my mother used at the end of the 1940s, is exhausting even to read, with every moment timetabled wtih tasks that modern women think perfectly futile. (p. x)
Next up is Jane Eyre, which I have already started and am pleased to find I still love, even if my copy is littered with my pretentious University era notes on "Freudian" readings of the text!


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An extract from the article The Kings Musketeers and their arms by Clement Bosson, in the Gazette des Armes (N° 42, October 1976), reprinted here with the authors permission.
The musketeers of the company of Louis XIII were armed with muskets almost certainly a matchlock musket, not as fragile for the battlefield as the wheellock– and, of course, with a sword and a pair of pistols packed in the saddle. Father Daniel writes in his History of the French Militia, completed around 1721:
The corporals and second corporals
carried rifles. The musketeers also had army rifles going back a number of years and only carried their muskets in military reviews. Today, they dont use the musket at all.
In 1657, they still carried the matchlock musket. Heres what we can read in the Journal of a journey to Paris in 1657-1658:
On the 19th of January 1657, we went to see the King enter [Paris] by Saint-Antoines gate with his 120 new musketeers who are also his body guard
they carry muskets and attach the fuse to the harness behind the horses two ears.
The matchlock musket proved quite accurate in the hands of the musketeers. Le Pippre, whom we have already cited, relates an episode of the siege of Dunkerque by the royal army under the command of Turenne, when Condé and Don Juan of Austria, at the head of the Spanish army, tried to rescue the city (June 1658):
The Prince of Condé sent the cavalry forward through a breach in the dunes where they could only advance at twenty abreast. The musketeers stopped them with musket fire and threw them into disarray and then continued to harass Monsieur the Princes troops with a well-aimed barrage
At what time did the rifle replace the musket?
We remember that, in 1671, the King created a regiment of riflemen, an elite corps attached to the artillery and armed with flintlock rifles to replace the muskets. We can suppose that the musketeers, also an elite corps, received the new weapons at the same time. Alas, it is impossible to have any precision when it comes to the armament of the [kings] military house, as this establishment fell not under the war administration but under the kings house. The archives of the latter have never been found.
What was the appearance of the musketeers sword at the time of the creation of the corps?
It seems that the branched epee, probably simplified compared to that in use in 1622, was used by the musketeers for most of the seventeenth century. A fresco by one of the old rectors of Invalides, attributed either to Adam-Frans Van Der Meulen (1632-1690), in collaboration with his apprentice Jean-Baptiste Martin (1659-1735), or to Joseph Parrocel (1646-1704), depicts a group of musketeers at the siege of Ghent in 1678. One of these frescos was reproduced by Eugène Leliepvre. The sword sports a hilt with branches, somewhat rudimentary.
Toward 1680, it seems that the French cavalry was armed with a Walloon sword, with a broad blade, a guarding branch and two bridges consisting of iron sheets. A bridge linking the nerves of the contra-guard to the pommel formed a knuckle-guard. This weapon, too rudimentary, was probably not used by the musketeers.
What is the appearance of the musketeers sword at the end of the seventeenth century?
Let us try to find the answer by consulting a scholarly work completed in 1695: Memoirs of the artillery collected by Monsieur Surirey de Saint-Rémy, lieutenant to the grand master of artillery of France.
The author presents an imposing series of military weapons. In the category of swords and sabers, he stops at three sorts: one saber and two types of epees. The plank [in his work] shows these weapons: one is an epee with a wide blade and a large pommel, the principal guarding branch prolonged by a quillon de parade, the pas-dâne above the coquilles. In sum, its the same epee that would later be called the musketeers sword and it appears here as a powerful combat sword.
Further, this sword is worn by the musketeers in numerous documents from the first half of the eighteenth century. However, it would receive its appellation much later and, it seems, for the first time in the text of a decree from 25th April 1767.
The moment they return to Paris, before the Hundred Days, the musketeers carry a saber different from that of the Ancien Regime. The hilt is composed of a guarding branch and of two or four branches on the sides with the musketeers famous motif in on the grip: the flaming cross in the form of the fleur-de-lis. The blade is straight or with a slight curve and has a length of 33 inches (89.3 cm).
The swords that have been conserved, which are the oldest ones of the two companies, are those of the Christian Ariès collection and of the army museum at Salon-de-Provence (formerly of the Jean and Raoul Brunon collection). Christian Ariès replaced the musketeer models with these models from around 1759.
These epees with guards, with hilts in gold for the first company and in silver for the second company, culminate in a round, slightly flattened pommel with the cross of the corps engraved on each side. The blade is flat, resistant, 34 inches (92 cm) long by 14 lines (32 mm) wide, with a thickness of 4 lines (9 mm). Its quite a powerful sword. And yet, at this time, the musketeers only served as guards or attendants.
The kings military house lived its final hours of glory at the battle of Fontenoy on the 12th of May 1745.
The musketeers saber: a weapon as recompense
Barely one month after his entry into Paris, Louis XVIII, provides for the establishment of a commission to attribute merits, among others, to those who participated in royalist movements against the revolution. The purpose was to recognize the spectacular feats of the armies of Brittany and Lower Normandy and of the Royal Army of the West.
The royal commission, in its session of 30th July 1816, adopted the types of weapons of merit provided for (epees, rifles and sabers) and notably for
the lower officers and soldiers
having served in the cavalry, a saber conforming to the model of the sword of the kings musketeers, to which we will substitute the cross in between the branches of the hilt with the coat of arms of France. These were the arms of the second company (silver guard), manufactured by the workshops of Versailles during the reconstitution of the corps, and removed from the palace of Versailles, where they had been stored, to be modified. The cross was replaced by a medallion bearing the arms of France against a background of flags. On the blade, the inscription: Long live the King. The arms of merit were awarded to those concerned on the 25th August 1824, the feast day of Saint Louis.
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Justin Jordan and Rebekah Issacs' Reaver Heads Back to Print
Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment's Reaver by Justin Jordan and Rebekah Isaacs is being rushed back to print in order to keep up with increasing customer demand for the new fantasy series.
The continent of Madaras once promised a new start for settlers, but 200 years after its discovery, the war rages on. Deep within this savage and untamed land, a darkness builds at that must be stopped at all costs.
To do so, the Imperials assemble six of its most despicable prisoners—a turncoat, a skin eater, a sorcerer, and his bodyguard, a serial killer, and the Devil's Son—the only ones who can stop the end of the new world. They are Hell's Half-Dozen.
Reaver #1, second printing (Diamond Code MAY199081) will hit stores on Wednesday, August 14. It features a new cover by series cover artist Becky Cloonan. The final order cutoff deadline for retailers is Monday, July 22.


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A few of the treatments regarding breast cancer consist of:
Surgical treatment: there are many treatments which in combating cancer of the breast, though there is absolutely no assurance which either of them may absolutely avoid the relapse of malignancy.
Body Hormone Therapy:
hormones normally occur in your body and control the expansion and process of the normal tissues. Hormone remedies are used to reduce the estrogen and also progesterone levels. And stop the effect from the hormones affecting the cancerous tissues from the.
Natural Therapy:
the body has naturally happening antibodies that help maintain the foreign cells just like viruses and bacterias out of the body. The biological treatment uses laboratory-created antibodies to target the actual cancer cells and eliminate them. Among the laboratory created antibody is called Belief.
Which targets the actual cancerous cells and eliminates all of them. Even though, these treatments aid in removing the malignant cells, effective treatment depends upon what stage associated with cancer, regarding the person and also sex.
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Cancer of the breast wholesale merchandise has been sold for the objective of raising money for breast cancer individuals. It is among the most typical types of malignancy and this disease has taken the lives involving huge numbers of people, as with earlier years.
There is no known therapy for the cure involving breast cancer. However fortunately now the individuals of cancer are now being recovered due to the development in the wonderful world of medication. But a regrettable part of this improvement is that the price of the therapy. For that cure of cancer of the breast is very higher and poor females.
who are the actual sufferers of this explanation and fatal disease cannot bear such expenses which becomes the main reason for an elevated death toll of those patients?
To be able to bring a good change in this worrying situation, many charities are investing in great efforts and they are doing commendable function, by providing at no cost treatment towards the cancer individuals.
To be able to run the machine in a precise way, these charities take help through government and private market and this generates pretty much powerful. That is a profit organization, which are profitable in getting a significant quantity of donations from the public.
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There are some issues. Which are offered over the Web, with regards to gathering donations from the public, these items are being sold combined with the ribbons of various colors, that is attached to all of them, with regards to featuring specific causes.
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which is offered over the internet which includes angel pins, necklaces, key chains along with a number of other stuff. People immediately buy it. Because know it perfectly that the quantity. Which they are generally paying will be useful for probably the most commendable and generous leads to.
Buying cancer wholesale products is among the effective ways to lessen the actual pains of cancer of breast patients. As the money may also be utilized in providing at no-cost treatment. As well as medications to the cancer of the breast patients.
The fundamental purpose of promoting this kind of products is to elevate the actual motivation level of the folks and to display thanksgiving gesture for all those individuals,
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who behave generously in this commendable and kind exercise. The actual fundraising merchandises. And so they keep you informing of your kind behave.
Throughout your daily life and in by doing this you live an existence full of satisfaction and satisfaction. When you should also entertain love, treatment, and kindness for all the cancer of the breast patients, then you definitely must also buy.
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Breast Cancer an A Serial Killer' Needs to cure
Cancer of the breast is the type of cancer which impacts the tissues from the cells in boobies. A spiteful growth is a number of cancer cells which can grow into surrounding tissues or distribute (metastasize) to distant parts of the body.
The illness occurs almost totally in ladies, but men could get it, as well. According to research the breast cancer the actual originating from the tissues in the breast, most often from the internal lining of milk tubes or the lobules supplying the channel along with milk.
This kind of cancer can also be affected by both men and women too. The cancer of the breast specialist within Delhi and NCR are generally identifying what causes breast malignancies. Most of the can certainly are fear regarding these types of malignancy.
Based on these specialists here are a few reasons for breast cancer are generally: Some time really affected by the hormone influences.
Those ladies who have late begin of the menstrual cycle they have got higher risk involving breast cancer. The majority of the women utilize contraceptives pills to obstruct of their being pregnant but there is higher risk involving.
Cancer of the breast is the type of cancer
Several women are keen below to go a body hormone therapy for menopausal signs. And symptoms must check with their own health care provider concerning. The possible risks involving developing cancer of the breast.
Overweight and obese can also be the main reason for breast cancer or even lack of physical activity is occurring cancer of the breast. These types of specialists recommended signs and symptoms. Such as; if any ladies can feel the advance the way within breasts. Painless group or thickening within the breast or under the arm.
A change in the manner the breasts looks. Your skin on the breasts may dimple or appear likes an orange peel off. There might be a big change in the dimension or shape of the actual breast.
Patients additionally feel very the nipple, as well as the breast skin close to it, may get scaly. Sometimes the actual fluid can originates from nipples just read was the symptoms.
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The actual specialists of cancer of the breast are more comfortable with providing suitable. T
Based on these doctors the dimensions of a tumor is actually depending upon the treating malignancy. They suggest correct and essential treatment regarding breast cancer patients. This kind of treatments is Rays Therapy: This treatment to remove the malignancy or tumor with the aid of light.
Best treatment options for breast cancer disease
The term -It- is considered the most horrifying term for a woman. That elicit so many worries among them including demise, loss of breasts, surgery, publish surgery complications and lack of libido.
A physician can give mental assistance to the patients struggling with breast cancer. And give them additional care, attention as well as treatment in order to guide a normal living. According to United states Cancer Society. Close to 2 lakhs of instances are found every year for cancer of the breast.
Best treatment options for breast cancer disease
A few facts about cancer of the breast Breast cancer is considered the most common malignancy among American females. One in most ten women is actually suffering from cancer of the breast in the united states.
Various types of cancer of the breast have been figured out that differ in distributing to other body parts cells, It is analyzed through biopsy, mammography as well as ultrasound test. Females can also have confidence in self-examination from the breasts.
Options are dependent upon at the type and quality of the tumor. And also the general health current condition of the patient.
Cancer of the breast therapy
Surgical treatment Most women undergo a surgery process.
- Breast-conserving surgical treatment In this process, some areas of the breast tend to be removed. The kind of surgery is dependent upon the place and the kind of a tumor within the breast. Within lumpectomy, breast group and surrounding tissues tend to be removed. The nearby tissues tend to be excited to get the cancer tissues. Then frequently rays therapy is used right after lumpectomies.
- Mastectomy In this particular procedure. Whole tissues of the breasts are removed, however, for immediate renovation, skin-sparing mastectomy is conducted.
Radiation treatment:
Radiation treatment Chemotherapy is either provided before surgery or following the surgical technique. In this technique, medications receive to patients that travel through the bloodstream and kill the malignancy cells. The medicines are given through 4 injections or mouth area.
This method has
Body hormone therapy Hormone remedies are also efficient Breast cancer therapy. In this process. Those hormones tend to be blocked. Which are accountable for the growth involving abnormal cells within the breast.
The female hormone promotes the introduction of breast malignancies. Therefore it is removed with the procedure within an effective method, these remedies are often used in reducing. The chance of malignancy reoccurrence after surgical treatment.
Radiation treatment:
The medicines are given through 4 injections or mouth area. This method has added two types, for example, Adjuvant chemotherapy as well as Neoadjuvant radiation treatment.
Adjuvant chemotherapy has after surgery in order to kill the remaining malignant cells. Whereas Neoadjuvant radiation treatment is given before surgical treatment.
Body hormone therapy Hormone remedies are also efficient Breast cancer therapy. In this process, those hormones tend to be blocked. Which are accountable for the growth involving abnormal cells within the breast. The female hormone promotes the introduction of breast malignancies.
Light therapy
#Light therapy Factor popular as well as successful Breast cancer therapy. Which is completed by external light beam therapy, in this particular method, a light beam of radiation is concentrated on the cancerous tumor by a machine, the actual extent of the remedies is determined by the place and the kind of growth. Treatment is additionally based on the overall health condition of the patient and the kind of surgery performed to them.
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I thought that given my role as a promoter for Eternal MMA I would give a little insight into matchmaking and a little guide to those who are looking to get fights on the national scene. This applies to most countries and most promotions. I would say all 'good' promoters are looking for the same things. The key is to match fair fights, which requires a lot of due diligence, and at the lower levels a lot of trust in coaches who nominate their fighters to be honest about their abilities.
It's easy to make a 'fight', chuck two people of the same weight together and you get your fight. Making a match is a much tougher skill altogether. The fighters must be equal in weight, skill and experience as best as is possible. The extra work you put in to make this happen is a win-win as you get entertaining match-ups for the fans, and the fighters don't feel like they have been thrown to the wolves.
My pet hate is people saying "you have to match this guy". Trust me, I know who I need to match but the old saying "It takes two to tango" rings true. It's easy throwing names around but not so easy, especially if the guy is a gun, to get people to sign the dotted line. We live in an age where debut fighters and up believe they are superstars and all destined for the UFC. 90% of them won't get close (probably more like 99%), this may sound harsh but it's the truth. And believe me, if you don't fancy fighting 2-0 John Smith then your chances of reaching the big show are limited.
To get to the UFC you need to be the best in the country and to be the best you need to beat all comers. Yes there is a time to be sensible about who you fight, when you are 6/7-0 as a pro and only a few wins away from a shot, not when you are an amateur fighter. Your amateur career is your time to gain experience and take some hard fights, to find out what you are actually made of and if this is the game for you at all. A 10-0 amateur record with 10 KO's means you haven't been tested yet. So below I will make a list of how to go about getting matched and having promoters want you on the show.
- Be easy to deal with.
Answer messages, return contracts, be flexible around show timings and travel arrangements, especially if you are travelling interstate.
- Do your Bloods, medicals and registrations in a timely fashion.
Promoters have a lot of things to sort out, when you are matched book your appointments early, there seems to be a trend of waiting until the last minute to book these things and then a big panic about getting them submitted in time. It's really simple to book them, submit them and then not have to worry about them.
- Fight!!
Accept fights. Forget about what's going to happen in 3 years time and where you assume you will be. If you are offered a fight and it's 50/50 take it if it's 60/40 take it. Fight!!
- Be reasonable in purse demands.
There is a common misconception that promoters are all Dana White rich. I can assure you this is very much not the case, if you have fought in a main event there is a good chance you have made more than a promoter on that show at least once. Sometimes if you got paid at all, you made more!!! Yes, you do deserve to be paid a fair amount for putting it on the line in the cage but don't think there is an unlimited pot of money sitting there and we all fly off to the Bahamas after every show.
- Promote the show.
Here is another news flash, if you sell a lot of tickets you will be paid more money and most shows also pay commissions.
I will do my best to match the guys who put some effort into the promotion of the show before the guys that rock up and take it all for granted. Like I said before, a lot of work goes into providing you the platform to compete on and a lot of expense. There are some fighters who make a tidy sum when adding purses and commissions up at the end of the day. Some amateurs make good ticket commissions and can walk away with a good pay day. Plus who doesn't like having a little crew of friends and family in support. Promote the show, share posts on social media platforms and use picture and marketing content provided. It's really not a lot of effort to reap some decent rewards.
Follow these steps and I assure you, you will find yourself fighting as often as you like. It really is a team effort between the promotion and the fighter.


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Happy Friday, gang! Don't you love a short work week? I'm thinking we should start a movement to make every weekend a three-day weekend. Just saying.
Last weekend we headed to Monterey for a quick getaway, and this weekend we're spending a few days at my family's cabin with friends, which I'm super pumped about! I realized that I hadn't been out of town at all since February, and it was making me totally uncomfortable and itchy to get the heck out of here! I'm a gal who seriously needs to stay on the move, and it had been way too long since we had an adventure. So we've got trips lined up for the next few weekends and I'm seriously pumped.
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Maybe Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh meant to stir up the controversy he did about gays being unbelievable in straight entertainment roles, and maybe he didn't. But the topic has been busted open, and he and others should use this as a learning moment.
While the real world is not Broadway and filming Sex in the City sequels, the fact is that there are tens of thousands of gay men and women who perform in "straight roles" every day in the US military. If they out themselves, they have a high chance of losing their jobs and being discharged by a military court of justice.
Setoodeh may not have meant to convey insensitivity and ignorance — ignorance in that there are numerous gay actors performing in straight roles in the entertainment industry and insensitivity in the sense that throughout American society, there are men and women who adequately "perform" each day in the straight roles ascribed to them while shifting to their real gay identities when they can afford to.
When I watched a number of good "gay" friends unable to salute in uniform their Commander in Chief at last year's Human Rights Campaign dinner in fear of being expelled from employment, I saw the opposite of what Ramin Setoodeh describes.
I don't want to pile on much. I am a pundit as well and get things wrong on occasion — and sometimes have to step back. This is one of those times when I think Newsweek's columnist should reconsider the empirical realities about gays in the entertainment industry vs. his own homosexual issues filter.
He would be wise to acknowledge that everyone is performing, and with his casual disregard for gays who constantly perform straight roles in life, he took a whack at a group far more numerous and significant than the talented Sean Hayes.
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