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Ever since the end of the big boom period for Must See Thursdays from the mid-90s to the early-2000s, NBC has been trying to recapture the magic of the shows in the lineup, from Friends to Will & Grace. Now, NBC is going to try recreating the spark directly.
An upcoming episode of Sean Saves the World will reunite Sean Hayes with his Will & Grace co-star Megan Mullally. In the show's 17th episode, which will shoot in early February, Mullally will play the sister of Hayes' character.
This event will mark the first onscreen reunion between Hayes and Mullally since Will & Grace ended in 2006.
Sean Saves the World, which was recently picked up for an additional five episodes (bringing its Season 1 total to 18), airs Thursdays at 9/8c on NBC.
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As part of their integrated campaign in support of the company's 2012 Versa Seda model, Nissan is leveraging a previously widely unexploited Apple iAd feature to help deliver the campaigns' young, tech savvy target consumer.
The Versa iAd utilizes gyro technology–offered on the iPad and iPhone–to allow the user to take in a 360-degree view of the car as they pan their device to the left or right while viewing the ad. True to its name, the iAd also offers elements of jazzy interaction to the experience: when a viewer shakes their phone, for example, the people in the ad will put on different hats.
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text: very cool but true!! walked outside monday morning and had to run inside, i was hit with a bunch of flying pig waste!! one pig had a banner behind it and it said, saints, nfl champions of the world!!!!!!!! WHO DAT, WHO DAT, WHO DAT, THER, GUNNA BEAT TEM SAINTS!!!!!!!!!


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Jenson didn't help his cause by saying what he said about this car being the dog's whatsits when it turns out to be a total dog.
2.5 is massive. .Mclaren couldn't make that time up against Red Bull in previous years what makes one think they can pull it off now with what seems all the important contributers have jumped ship.
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CLEVELAND - Nick Sorkin's first-career goal stood up as the winner as the Hamilton Bulldogs edged the host Lake Erie Monsters 2-1 on Tuesday in American Hockey League play.
Sorkin broke a 1-1 deadlock at 2:34 of the third period when he tipped a Sven Andrighetto wrist shot past Lake Erie goaltender Calvin Pickard.
Joonas Nattinen opened the scoring for the Bulldogs (33-34-8) at 10:18 of the second period.
Andrew Agozzino replied for the Monsters (30-33-11) at 13:30 of the second while on the power play.
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A long lasting collector's tin with a Star Wars Stormtrooper graphic with a box of crayons with a sharpener inside. Save this for a prize winning gift to your Star Wars fan; they'll love the collectible tin and the set of 64 crayons in 48 classic colors wrapped in black and grey labels.There are eight Star-Wars-themed colors and each includes metallic and glitter hues. Choose this or the Darth Vader tin.
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A collector's item for under ten dollars. Save these for prize stocking stuffers; a set of 64 crayons in a special black and white cardboard box with built-in crayon sharpener and 48 classic colors all wrapped in black and grey labels. There are 16 Star-Wars-themed colors and each includes metallic and glitter hues. Choose from two themes. Darth Vader or Storm Trooper.
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Our testers continue to love eeBoo's 24 color pencil sets ($13) with matching sketchpads($6). This season you'll find a pad and pencil set in paper boxes instead of tins, decorated with airplanes by Ross MacDonald, colorful birds and flowers by Saxton Freymann and colorful cats by Monika Forsberg. As always the quality of spiral notebooks and colored pencils is excellent and there is no better way to encourage kids to develop their writing skills than with the fun activity of drawing. Send a box to your summer camper that may pay off in colorful letters. Blank paper and drawing their own ideas are better choices than coloring books that require staying inside the lines. For now, let them create the lines and spin their own stories about what they are drawing. 6-9
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Want to build a love of pencil and paper tasks? Switch the 'task' word for 'fun' with these short but jumbo size pencils that are perfect for little hands to grasp without the strain of skinny pencils. Send a box to your summer camper and we bet you'll get a colorful letter in return. Choose a box with robots or fairies to fit you artist's tastes. These sets with a dozen juicy colors come with a sharpener that fits their thick size and they will go a long way in making writing and drawing a fun activity rather than a drudge they dread. Don't worry about having them practice copying numbers or letters. It is far more important to encourage them to use paper and pencil in open ended ways and gain control of those fine motor skills with scribble drawings that help develop beginners eye hand skills. Bring home a matching sketch pad with robots or fairies. Either of these will be a gift to invite creativity as well as paper and pencil skills that kids will enjoy. 5 & up
SNAP: These are fatter and easier to grasp pencils that kids will like using.
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Imagine having a dozen vibrant chalks to draw with outdoors and no need to get messy hands (if that bothers your young artist) or sore knees, either. This dandy set comes with a knee pad cushion, 2 foam grips to slid the chalk into and for blending a brush and a piece of foam. The intense color of these chalks makes you want to get out there and draw all over the driveway! Marked for 4 & up, but we know older schoolaged kids are going to love it, too.
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We love these smooth, easy-to-blend gel sticks for drawing in bright intense colors. Use them for drawing or add water and the stiff brush provided to turn drawings into watercolor paintings. The kit comes with 8 gel sticks, 10 pieces of textured paper, 10 more of regular paper, and a rubbing plate for extra texture. There are stencils, glue stick, and three foam frames with hanging tabs, and double sided sticky foam for displaying finished art. An open-ended set of art materials with a new texture and style. 6 & up.
SNAP: Materials that make using pencil and paper tasks fun are always welcome.These soft but brilliantly colored gel sticks will make such activities new again.Use them for exploring up and down motions and circles and blending colors. Keep it playful. The object is to use those small motor muscles and eye hand skills. Giving children paper and tools to explore is more than just fun; it's the way to build those skills without tiresome and off-putting drills.
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This really is the ultimate sidewalk chalk set with 36 colorful chalks that should provide a summer full of fun. For those who like their hands clean and their chalk whole, there are 5 chalk holders and two giant stencils for tracing the parts of the mandala design. These chalks come shaped with writing tips and lots of colorful choices for making a unique mandala or whatever else their creative hands prefer. Alex sells these chalks in smaller packs without the stencils, but this is an interesting way to introduce kids to an art form from another culture. We suggest you hold back with some of the chalk instead of opening the entire supply all at once. Good fun for a family reunion party to keep the kids busy. They could use the chalk for hopscotch or an art show in the driveway, as well. Marked 5 & up.
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Our testers liked the twirl and swirl action of this art kit that's full of surprises. You load the four corners with paint and drop the foam balls into the covered box with see-through top. Now, start shaking and tilting the balls as the hatches open and the balls carry the paint slide from side to side. The set comes with ten activity sheets with mazes as well as ten sheets of blank paper. We prefer the latter, allowing more free form experiments that will mix colors as the balls cross paths. For Ages 6+.
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Newest additions to a line of beautiful watercolor pencils and sketch book art supplies. The colored pencils in their handsome tin provide a range of hues artists, young and old, will welcome. Draw with dry pencil and then use a paintbrush and water to turn drawings into paintings. Illustrator Monika Forsberg designed the red squirrel with a posy for bird. This makes a perfect gift for creative springtime birthdays or visits. 5-50+.
SNAP: Encouraging kids to work on pencil and paper skills can be enhanced by bringing home art supplies that are more fun to practice with than ordinary paper and pencil.
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Designed for small hands these oversized colored pencils come in sets of 12 or 24 along with a special sized sharpener. The delicious colors will make paper and pencil tasks more fun and may be just the right inducement for kids who are just starting to write words and letters in school. As the box says, they are shorter than most pencil sets, but jumbo in thickness, giving beginners a broader line and more control. Drawing, coloring or writing, these are terrific tools for developing eye hand and for refining those small muscles in the fingers and hand that are needed for the task. Bring home a Sketchbook with elves carrying Striped Biggies. 5 & up.
SNAP For all the reasons stated above, these are a good choice that will make pencil tasks more pleasing.
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The Forgan Bulldogs made their presence felt in both days of Tulsa's Tournament of Champions. Tuesday, they pushed the top ranked team in 6A Muskogee before losing by three. Wednesday, the Class B Bulldogs topped the third ranked team in 2A, Preston, 49-43. The Bulldogs (9-1) out scored Preston (8-2) 20-9 in the fourth quarter. Rhett Radcliff scored 20 with nine in the decisive fourth quarter and brother Ryan added 13. Jake Regier added nine points. Forgan plays the number two team in 5A Thursday East Central at 1:30 p.m.
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Can you imagine a crimson red necklace strung with over 230 carats of precious gems? We designed our extraordinarily faceted natural raw rubies in the most fashionable modern cut.
From the Bible, to the Land of Oz to coronations in royal England, the ruby has always represented romance and devotion. But because rubies are the scarcest of all precious gemstones, they often command steep prices, with auction bids topping out at £3.5 million for a 15-carat stone. But Stauer believes that precious doesn't have to be synonymous with expensive-a conviction borne out by our new necklace dript with carat after carat of fiery, faceted rubies.
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Archaeological site of Philippi
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The area of Philippi hosts a series of archaeological monuments, witnesses to a long historical path during which civilisations intersected and developed. The first archaeological evidence of organised life in the area dates from prehistoric times (5500 BC) and is found in the tell of Philippi, Dikili Tash. This is the oldest Neolithic settlement in the whole of East Macedonia and Thrace, and one of the largest tells in the Balkans. Life in the ancient city of Philippi began when the Thasians founded the colony of Krenides in the interior in 360 BC. The colony was soon (356 BC) conquered by Philip II of Macedon (359-336 BC), fortified and renamed Philippi. The Battle of Philippi took place in 42 BC, between the armies of the Republicans Cassius and Brutus, and the supporters of Julius Caesar, Octavian and Mark Antony. The Emperor accorded Philippi the honour of implementing Roman Law and the name Colonia Augusta Julia Philippensis in 27 BC.
The Via Egnatia, one of the longest military and trading roads in the ancient world, also passed through Philippi, bringing the city to the forefront of major historical events.
Philippi played a decisive role in the expansion of Christianity when, in 49/50 AD, Paul the Apostle visited the city, founded the first Christian church in Europe and baptised the first European Christians, an event that affected the whole continent. The Epistle to the Philippians, the first Christian community in Europe, sealed the long and close relationship between the Apostle and the Philippi congregation. There was an episcopal see of Philippi from as early as the mid-4th century AD. The exceptional examples of early Christian architecture (the three Early Christian basilicas, the Octagon church, baths that remained in use into the Christian period, the "Bishop's Palace", private houses), dating from the mid-4th century AD onwards, bear eloquent witness to the power and vitality of the Church of Philippi and its influence on the contemporary Christian world. These were closely linked to developments in the metropolitan see of Constantinople, if not directly financed by it.
The immediate historical landscape of Philippi also includes:
Α) The rock art in the Lekani foothills, approximately two kilometres east of the city of Krenides, depicting human and animal figures and the distinctive "horseman".
Β) The important mines in the area east of Philippi and northeast of the ancient port of Neapoli (modern-day Kavala), identified with those referred to by Herodotus and Thucydides as Skapte Hyle.
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The Philippi area is linked to great historical figures and events that shaped the world as we know it. Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, is unquestionably the leading political figure of the Late Classical period, and directly determined the fate of the Ancient World. With his son Alexander's expedition to the East, Greek civilisation was disseminated to India and had an exceptional influence on the political and cultural development of the whole Ancient World. Philippi certainly played a major economical and political part in Philip's plans. Furthermore, the Battle of Philippi set the course of the Roman Republic towards the Empire that was to conquer the Ancient World. Great statesmen of the Roman era, such as Mark Antony and Octavian, determined the history of the city. The other great contribution of Philippi to human history is the establishment there of the first Christian church in Europe by Paul the Apostle himself, founding a religion in the West which still influences the political and cultural history of a large part of the world today. This tradition is deeply rooted in Philippi, guarded as a treasure and honoured by the local communities.
The architectural remains of Philippi represent important transitional periods in the history of the architecture of the Byzantine Empire from its earliest days. The building phases identified in the ruins of the Octagon church and Basilica B demonstrate the evolution of human architectural ingenuity, to which the exquisite functional and ornamental elements of Basilica C add the aesthetic component.
At Philippi we can also see the diachronic and uninterrupted continuity of universal values that exist until today; they were passed on from Ancient Greek tradition to the Roman world, incorporated in Christian communities. A characteristic expression of this religious continuity is the incorporation of the Hellenistic funerary heroon in the first Christian house of prayer (eukterios oikos), built in the early 4th century and dedicated to Paul the Apostle, according to the dedicatory mosaic inscription: "Bishop Porphyrios made the mosaics of the basilica of Paul, in Christ". The Hellenistic tomb was preserved as the core of the Christian religious buildings even when, circa 400 AD, the small house of prayer was replaced by the great Octagon church with its various annexes.
Criterion (ii): The material remains of Philippi demonstrate the development of political, social, economic, religious and artistic values from the Classical to the Middle Byzantine period in a manner representative of the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine world.
Criterion (iii): It bears exceptional witness to the introduction and early expansion of Christianity through the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire before it even reached Rome.
Criterion (iv): Its architectural remains are excellent examples of the early development of architectural types such as the Octagon church, the transept Basilica and the domed Basilica. The small early 4th century prayer house dedicated to Paul the Apostle, which was later incorporated into the Octagon, is the earliest securely dated building of Christian worship in the world.
Criterion (vi): Philippi is directly and tangibly connected to events that changed world history, such as the Battle of Philippi and the expansion of Christianity to the western world.
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Several of the monuments of the ancient city have always been visible. Comparison with 19th and early 20th century depictions confirms that their state of preservation has not altered radically.
There have been small-scale interventions to all the monuments of the ancient city for reasons of consolidation, presentation and interpretation. The Archaeological Service has carried out all the conservation and restoration work in accordance with national legislation and the international conventions ratified by Greece.
The seats of the ancient theatre were excavated and restored between 1957 and 1964 in order to host the Philippi-Thasos Festival of Ancient Drama. Excavation, documentation, restoration and rehabilitation work has continued from 1975 to the present under the guidance of a scientific committee.
Comparison with other similar properties
The archaeological site of Philippi surpasses many other sites of outstanding value because it bears significant witness to human history through the ages. It includes the prehistoric settlement of Dikili Tash, comparable only to the greatest tells of the Balkans and Anatolia. Its Hellenistic phase, although not represented by many impressive monuments, is directly connected to Philip II, one of the most important figures in world history. As a Roman city, it is comparable to Nicopolis in Epirus, as the latter is also connected to Octavian and the Battle of Actium, another decisive battle for the Roman Empire.
Philippi boasts a splendid collection of inscriptions which enrich our knowledge of the operation of a Roman colony as a "little Rome" in the wider area of the East Mediterranean. Philippi is a singular case of an untouched archaeological site with monuments in an exceptional state of preservation and long-term development prospects since there is no modern settlement within the boundaries of the archaeological site (as is the case with Corinth, Antioch, Beirut and even Rome itself). The city in its Roman phase formed the social and historical context in which Christian teaching took root and grew. It is therefore beyond compare and is unique on a symbolic level as the first city in Europe in which Paul the Apostle preached and baptised the first Christian woman. It is thus the cradle of Christianity on European soil and worldwide. The Early Christian monuments of Philippi are among the best-preserved monuments of this type and period in the world.


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The Vale da Lua is a rocky valley sculpted by the current of the Rio São Miguel. For miles on end, the grey rock was worn away, polished by the pressure from the water, until it took on bizarre, almost surreal, shapes, hence its name meaning "Valley of the Moon". A 45min circuit on foot will give you the chance to observe this natural wonder. There is no need for a guide here as the site is not part of the national park.
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Palais Brongniart
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Métro: Bourse (line 3), Grands Boulevards (lines 8 & 9)
Bus: lines n°20, 39, 48, 67, 74, 85 ('Bourse' stop)
A flagship of Parisian architectural heritage, the Palais Brongniart provides a prestigious venue for hosting your major events in the very heart of the French capital.
Located in the "Vivienne" district, between the place de la Concorde and the Louvre Museum, the Palais Brongniart is ideally situated within close proximity to the Grand Hotels and major Department Stores, and offers majestic reception venues brimming with history.
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Originally Posted by britchick, post: 291423Originally Posted by Figment, post: 291438
I will expect full reports from both of you Details, details, details ladies
Or you can stroll or take a boat upriver to POR and eat at Boatwright's Dining Hall if you simply MUST have a sit down restaurant!.Originally Posted by Keith, post: 291445
Tom (... who actually really likes Boatwright's!)
yep! I had a nice meal there some years ago. To be honest, I'd probably hop on the boat to DTD, more choice but yep you're right, Boatwrights is there in an emergencyOriginally Posted by catrancher, post: 291487
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We did have dinner at Boatwright's in ummm..2005 I think and we enjoyed it. I do think the menu has changed quite a bit since then and I don't think it would work as well for us now, but it is nice to know it is there. I don't really mind the lack of a restaurant since we are coming from stays in the value resorts.
Yup what Keith said!! It is a lovely boat ride (so lovely that it is my dream retirement job...I want to be one of the captains!). We took the boat to DTD, then a second one to OKW and had a great time at Olivia's. Good food and a really nice atmosphere.Originally Posted by Keith, post: 291445
We have only stay onsite, in moderates and deluxe and it ranks as maybe our favorite place.
I can't wait for all the reports from there to come in as I may be looking at next Sept or Oct. for a trip with a friend
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Businesses spend a lot of time and money on marketing with the aim of attracting more clients and selling more products.
So why do so many of them make it so hard for people to buy? Are you guilty of ensuring a prospect won't buy from you?
These are the three most common reasons a potential client won't buy from you:
What business are you in, where is your expertise and why should I work with you? Are you offering tangential products or services that make you look unfocused or desperate for money?
When a potential client visits your website or reads your personal profile what does it say about you? Are you expert in one thing or do you appear a master of none?
How many times have you heard the sentence "I will get XYZ to call you back" or "I will get that in the post for you" and nothing happens?
These minor irritations really can damage your business. Not only do you annoy a customer that wants to do business with you, but you also create a story for the complainer to share with their friends (your potential future clients).
Annoy your potential customers and you are wasting their time and losing yourself a future client.
This is the biggest sin of all. They want to spend money with you – help them, don't hinder them.
Do you have clear instructions on how to buy or how to pay? Do you have payment options like Paypal, WorldPay, Sage, send a cheque, make a bank transfer or any other appropriate options for your target client? Older clients often prefer to call a human and make a payment by phone. What about payment options such as staged payments for higher value goods or monthly direct debits?
Whatever business you are in, getting money from clients quickly and easily is crucial to the lifeblood of your business.
The solution is simple; read your website and marketing material as if you were a customer. How easy is it to understand, is it jargon free, consistent and clear? Once the client knows what you do, can they place an order or ask a question easily?
If not, you may find your competitors are helping themselves to money from your clients' purses.
Copyright © 2014 Vicki Wusche, property investor and author.
When I'm in London, I travel between meetings on the back of a motorbike taxi. I use them because the journey times are quicker and more predictable than my other options. I don't choose them because "it's a motorbike".
Also, my company chose our IT service providers because they could free up our time; not because "we do IT".
And we selected our accountant because he could help us grow our business; not because "he is an accountant".
You see, when we buy things, we aren't interested in the things. Instead, we're interested in what they give us. Or, as I call it, the afters — why we're better-off after buying.
Weirdly, we often don't realise we want these afters. For example, I imagine you recently bought a newspaper, thinking you wanted a newspaper. You didn't. You wanted the news. Glasses? Better sight. Toothpaste? Clean teeth.
Smart companies use afters to persuade us to buy. For instance, Kodak doesn't sell by discussing their photographs; they talk about preserving our memories. Disney doesn't sell by focusing on their cartoons. They talk about making our dreams come true.
So when you want people to buy-in to your messages, what do you focus on? Your ideas? Initiatives? Proposals? Research? Yourself?
Or, do you focus on why others will be better off afterwards? The time you save them. Or the costs. Or the hassle. The fact you reduce their stress, grow their business, help them look good to their boss… Now, those are great reasons to buy-in.
So, engage others instantly by beginning with their afters. This can be hard to do — after all, you are passionate about what you do. But I would never have chosen a motorbike taxi if some motorbike enthusiasts had spent ages telling me about their motorbikes.
People will never buy into your content unless their afters are crystal clear. So next time you're looking for quick buy-in, start by explaining why the other person will be better off afterwards.
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Qualifying a prospect is probably one of the most important elements of selling if you are a small business. The time you can save by not trying to sell to prospects who ultimately never would have bought anyhow is invaluable, as well as the mental advantage that can be gained by being able to focus only on the right prospects.
The eight key stages that should be followed can be remembered easily using the term SCOTSMAN.
(S) Solution — Have you clarified if your prospect understands what it is that you wish to sell them. What is your solution and why will it work for them?
(C) Competition — Have you an awareness of whether there is anyone competing with you to sell to your prospect or for the money they may use to buy from you? Your competition could be internal as well as external.
(O) Objective — Have you a clear understanding on what your client is looking for, what are they in the market for? What is important to them now and in the future? Do you improve their services or processes, or do you save them money?
(T) Timescales — Have you clarified what timescale the prospect is working to? Can you deliver within that timescale? Does the timescale work for you? Is there a timing factor that could be used in your favour, for example a financial year end?
(S) Size — Is the potential size of the deal worth the effort going to be needed to win the business? Have you a clear picture on what size the deal will be? Is it smaller than ideal but could open doors? Is it too big and may have a detrimental impact on your business?
(M) Money — Does the prospect have the money in their budget to pay for your solution? If they don't have a budget, can they find the money or do you need to consider walking away?
(A) Authority — Are you speaking to the decision maker? The person who ultimately will sign the cheque? Are they even aware that you are speaking to their company? It is no longer imperative to deal with just the decision maker, there is a value in dealing with another contact within the business but very few pieces of business are completed without the main authority signing off on it.
(N) Need — Does the prospect actually need your solution? Very few deals happen in the current climate without a clear need. There are many reasons why they may need your solution and it is key that you find out which one is relevant and focus on it.
If you can answer all of the questions in a positive manner, then your chances of closing the deal are significantly higher than if you can't. Very few deals will actually happen if one or more of these eight key stages are missing, and the time you may waste on chasing shadows is valuable.
It can be easy to get sucked into thinking that every deal will happen, and there is also a sort of comfort that some small businesses value in having a large pipeline that "could" close but I would encourage you to qualify properly and allow yourself to focus only the deals that have a chance. You are better off closing three out of five good prospects than two out of ten prospects as your focus was stretched thin.
Craig McKenna is a managing partner at The Growth Academy.
All business owners get busy — it comes with the territory and we all have to make choices on what we prioritise and what we don't. Human nature tends to encourage us to prioritise the tasks that we like or are stronger at, and this, more often than not, does not include selling.
To achieve sustainable growth and drive a business forward it is essential that we have a consistent approach to sales. How do we ensure that we continue to sell effectively during the periods when we are flat out and crazy busy?
When we are busy it is vital that we don't waste time chasing shadows or lost causes and the best way to achieve this is by qualifying targets properly and only chasing the targets that could close.
There is a real value in meeting potential clients face to face and I am a huge fan of ensuring that the personal touch is always given precedent over email and phone but we have to be careful we don't over do it. When you factor in prep, travel and the actual face to face time, meetings cut heavily into your diary. Pause and think — do you really need to attend a meeting to move the deal forward? Would a call be more appropriate? Does the meeting even need an hour?
Networking is an essential part of the majority of small business sales strategies. It is important and it needs to be done properly, but plan it. Work out how much time you can designate to networking and work a plan around that. If you can only attend one group, attend it properly and make sure you get value from it. Don't try and attend a lot of groups sporadically, it won't work. You need continuity to get benefit from any networking and if not done right, it is just time wasted.
If we have properly set targets and work towards them, it becomes a lot easier to focus our selling and avoid wasting time on the wrong activities. Too often small businesses either don't have targets or don't work towards them effectively and this can result in a lot of wasted time. If you know you are close to achieving a target or you are miles away it helps you make the right decisions on which meetings to take and what other activity you need to make time for.
No matter how busy we get we cannot afford to let activity levels drop to zero! It is a lot easier to keep activity going than it is to restart it. Too many businesses only sell when they have very little or no business at all and then they find it difficult. No matter how busy you get, your selling must keep ticking over. Identify your key targets and work on them, whether you choose 40 or 200, it is up to you, make a call on the number and get to work on them.
Craig McKenna is a managing partner at The Growth Academy.
It's a simple question really. Many of us are passionate about selling products and/or services that we wholeheartedly believe in. Because, let's face it, if we aren't passionate about our own product then we can't expect our customers to be. But selling someone something they need but don't particularly want can be incredibly difficult.
Selling someone a product or service they want is often just a matter of closing the deal. What many people fail to realise is that it's incredibly difficult — perhaps nigh on impossible, to sell someone something they might need, but don't think they want.
Occasionally, I'll meet a business owner struggling to make their business model work. And often, the root cause lies in the fact that they're on a crusade to change the world. They believe so passionately in their business, product or service that they are convinced everyone else should too.
They look to the branding and the marketing to solve the problem. They revisit their sales process. If they're not careful they can embark on incredibly expensive campaigns that result in very little. Why? Because they've failed to grasp that their customers don't want what they're selling.
They might need it. But they don't want it. Nightmare.
Fiona Humberstone is an expert contributor to Marketing Donut and runs her own creative consultancy.
How are you selling? Are you old school or new school? There is a lot of talk about sales targets, selling style and features versus benefits. But at the end of the day, your approach, tone and brand style should tie together with your approach to selling. Here are some questions you may want to think about as you launch into 2011.
Many business people fear that sharing their knowledge will empower their competitors and they believe they should keep their expertise close to their chest. It's one thing sharing your knowledge and another thing applying it. Let me illustrate this. Tips on how to style my curly hair are great but I'm not about to attempt cutting my hair on my own. I'll always need a hairdresser to do that. So don't confuse the knowledge you can share, with the skill you have in applying it. The opportunity to apply your skills (sell them) comes up more often when you set yourself up as an expert.
Today authenticity is absolutely essential. We are bombarded with meaningless adverts, worthless pitches and annoying messages. Why not stand out and be yourself? People buy from people. Even when we buy from faceless large brands we buy from the people employed by them. How many times have you been to a big brand shop and experienced poor service and then slated them, avoided them or told someone about your bad experience? On the other hand, give me a good shop assistant who has some personality and I'm the happiest person. You can communicate authentically by developing an honest brand style and using social media to develop personable relationships.
So you are convinced you know what you are doing. But do other people believe it? This might seem blindingly obvious but many people are still not using testimonials. No one likes those people at parties that never shut up about themselves. So you can talk about your great products and services till you are blue in the face but if you're the only one saying it then you are likely to go unnoticed. Your customers can help you sell by sharing the positive experiences they have had with your products and services.
Do people understand what you're trying to say in your brochure or are they tripping over too many words, bad grammar and poor quality imagery? When people land on your website are they overwhelmed with mixed messages, flashing adverts or streams of useless blurb? Here's a tip — if you give people too many choices such as multiple links on your website, they feel bombarded and run away! Your customers are busy and they need help making buying decisions. Make your communications (print and websites) logical and easy to navigate.
Who wants to be sold to all of the time? The answer is no-one. So why is this one of the biggest problems I experience today? Selling is an essential aspect of any business and I'm definitely not suggesting we scrap it. It's about how we sell. People want personality, benefits and meaning. So avoid the kind of selling that is in your face, doesn't shut up, tells lies and is a one-way street of blurb.
The best way to know what your customers actually want is to listen to them! Sounds simple? Then why are most businesses talking at their customers rather than listening? One of the simplest and most innovative things you can do is make your customers feel important by listening to them and trying to solve their problems.
Sara Drawwater is an expert contributor to Marketing Donut and runs her own creative consultancy, Something Beckons.


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Hey fanatics I come here because I find myself in need of some new tunes to listen to, and I know everyone who posts here has absolutely impeccable taste in all walks of life, so I'm sure you all can offer up some good suggestions for me. I'm not a big rap or country guy (some exceptions), but I enjoy most everything else. Hit me with your best shot guys and gals
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He definitely does my favorite version of somewhere over the rainbow I've ever heard. Very nice voice, it's too bad he passed away at such a young age
Haim, Their song "The Wire" is one of the best of 2013, IMO. Plus their made up of 3 hot sisters and they jam out.
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Haim, Their song "The Wire" is one of the best of 2013, IMO. Plus their made up of 3 hot sisters and they jam out.
I've been listening to HAIM for awhile now, and they are one of my favorite newer bands. Love their style. They got me hooked with the song "Forever" awhile back
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Trip Report: 060
Flight Category: J-ILR (See Report End)
Date: 05 Dec-08 (See Report End)
SDT/SAT/Dur/Delay: 1540/1825/08:45 hrs (Additional 00:42 due to strong headwinds)
Flight: Lufthansa/Privatair LH 424, 3851 miles
Routing: MUC-BOS
Aircraft: 73H
Seat: Business, 10F
I > Background:
I went to undergraduate university in Boston and it is somewhat of a tradition for a few of us to meet up in December and re-live our youthful days. God, I sound like such the quintessential 30 year old. Anyways, since I was in München, I decided to take the Lufthansa nonstop (Privatair) flight as I wanted to maximize my short time in the city of the Charles.
I believe this is the first Privatair trip report in over 6 years, and the first on the MUC-BOS segment.
II > Pre-Flight:
a) Before Airport:
PrivatAir is an airline based in Geneva, Switzerland, specializing in scheduled and charter flights. One of the services it provides, is operating exclusively business class flights for Lufthansa, Swiss, and KLM using a mix of 73H and 319 aircraft. It's MUC-BOS flight is done on part of Lufthansa. Since this route has tons of leisure demand, it is done using a 340 during peak times and now reverts to all J during winter months.
Ticketing for the flight was done through an online site as I always remain confused by Lufthansa's own site and its inability to have lower fares. By going through an external site, I saved almost 1,000 Euros … pretty substantial amount I must say! Anyways, I find www.lufthansa.com extremely annoying. The inability for a paid business class passenger to chose their own seat, add FF details, and do other modifications is absolutely absurd and inadequate.
b) At Airport:
Compared to the over-crowded Frankfurt, what always surprises me about Munich is how empty the entire terminal is. Perhaps a scope for further LH expansion? But, at what cost? Vienna? Frankfurt? Zurich (which by the way, I also find remarkably uncongested for an Euro hub).
LH has a dedicated row of J class counters and these were extremely empty today … so without much wait time, I got my boarding pass and my bag tagged priority to BOS. I did wonder how amusing it must be to have each and every bag on this flight being tagged priority … hehe.
Anyways, after a quick immigration and security … in both instances, the Y line moved MUCH faster than the J line (what is up with that? I thought LH being a premium product would have figured this by now), I made it to the LH lounge..
Now, the lounge attendant was absolutely rude. The lounge is cordoned off to a First/Star Gold section and a Business class section. She would absolutely not let me in to the First/Star Gold section without seeing my physical Star Gold card. Apparently, having "*G" printed on the boarding pass was not sufficient. Worse, she was such a b**ch about the whole thing. Anyways, after digging through my carry-on, I decided to be a b**ch back (I know, extremely juvenile). Put out 3 *G card and asked her which of the ones she wanted. Anyways, after all that, I was expecting this amazing lounge. Guess what? It sucked! It was like a UAL RCC or something. Extremely crowded – almost no sitting room for the major duration, horrible food options, no free internet, few newspapers, and apparently no shower. It was basically one room – nothing more. I missed the lounge at Istanbul so much at that point. I had been a b**ch for this? This is a First lounge? I shudder to think that the Business class lounge would have been.
All flights departing the U.S. go through a secondary security process … which is pretty much exactly like the first process. Since there is only two checkpoints for 6 U.S. bound flights departing the same time, the queue was insane. 45 minutes later, I was in the calm of my boarding gate.
One of the best things about the Privatair flight is boarding … it was announced just 10 minutes prior to departure … and very soon, all the 42 passengers were on board. Very calm, collected, and efficient. Upon entering the aircraft, we were greeted by 2 FA's … though, no help was forthcoming to the passengers during anytime. J load was 90% … and in a first for me, ENTIRELY male! Weird. At the boarding gate, there were 2 women, but they were apparently not on our flight.
Airport - External:
(München Airport)
Airport - Internal:
(Pre-Security: beautiful inside)
Scenes of the tarmac:
(Small, crowded, and really nothing home to write about)
(Paid internet … BAD)
(Very smooth boarding)
III> In-Flight:
a) Service Schedule + Impressions:
Upon boarding, newspapers and magazines were distributed. I was appalled that an international airline like Lufthansa had NO English newspapers and one English language magazine. This was not a loading issue as MUC is a home base and I had encountered the same disdain for English periodicals on a ZRH-FRA a few days earlier. Thank God, I speak German. If I was non-German speaker, I would not have been impressed at paying high fares and getting no options from such a global airline. Anyways, welcome drinks (champagne or water) and hot towel service prior to take-off. After take-off, DVD players were distributed along with menu, then drink service, then meal service, and 90 minutes prior to boarding, another meal service. Amenity kits and hangars were already at our seat when we arrived.
b) Aircraft + Seats:
Privatair 73H was immaculately maintained, including the lavs. The entire J layout definitely gave a relaxed private jet feel to the aircraft. It is hard to describe, but the cabin felt "private" and intimate.
Ok. Let us talk about the seats. The pseudo-lie-flat was NOT comfortable. These are super old generation seats and I really do wonder when Lufthansa will upgrade these. Like many of its peers, it is extremely comfortable during seat mode, and you can get a nice cradle like position while watching IFE or reading a book. However, in the "lie-flat" mode, it is not comfortable at all. Like many of its peers, too many pronounced "breaks" and 3 different angles of recline ensure that there isn't one seat … but 3 different ones at 3 different angles, making a sleep extremely difficult. Perhaps its only saving grace was the additional legroom over the standard Lufthansa J product. Else, give me a traditional cushioned J "arm-chair" anyday!
(Privatair 73H – sleek and slender)
Views from Aircraft:
(Gate-mates – bigger brother)
(343 to LAX)
(Beautiful colors en-route)
General Seat Views + Seat Legroom
(Front of seat)
(Seat controls – needing of a change?)
(Seat legroom)
Seat Recline + Angle View:
(Uncomfortable and "breaks" in recline mode)
(Cramped legroom)
(Side view)
(Cosy cabin)
(Bathroom – tons of important utilities)
c) Meal + Beverage:
While on the ground, a beverage service is done where you can chose between champagne and water.
Menus were distributed soon after take-off and meal service commenced thereafter. First drinks were served with nuts … I chose white wine … from a not-so-exciting wine menu (see picture).
Dinner was served soon thereafter and included an excellent shrimp appetizer followed by my choice of pike Perch served with wild rice. Now several things that must be commented on. First, the presentation itself was poor. The fish was over-burnt and as you can see tasted as mediocre as the presentation. The woman FA came to us and basically held out the two offerings on our face and asked us which we wanted. Not really classy at all. Finally, dessert was skimpy at best. No alcohol was served with dessert, and no post-meal beverage service was done.
Between the dinner and the pre-land meal, there was not a single additional beverage service by the crew. Only after 3 dings on my crew-call button over 21 minutes was a café brought to me.
90 minutes prior to landing, a second meal service commenced. Interestingly, the same woman FA had no idea of the menu and when I asked her for the "Roast Beef", she gave me the other dish ("Asian Specialty") and kept on insisting that it was roast beef! Absurd. Even the fellow Austrian passenger commented on how bad the service had been. Anyways, apparently they had run out of the roast beef, and I made do with the Asian specialty. In Lufthansa's defence however, the "Asian Specialty" actually was very good and definitely the highlight of the meal service.
(Pre-take off champagne)
(2nd meal)
d) Inflight Entertainment:
Lufthansa/Privatair planes do not come with inbuilt AVOD. Instead you get this little personal movie player loaded with an abysmal choice of 12 pretty crappy and obscure movies. For those of us who do this route often, you are out of movie choices pretty soon. Moreover, the headphones were sub-standard and more fitting for Y class than J. In fact, they were so bad that I had to give up using them! The only saving grace is the above average in-flight magazine.
(IFE system)
("In-flight magazines", Boarding Passes, etc.)
e) Crew:
Indifferent and average are the two adjectives best describing this Lufthansa/Privatair crew. They seemed to do the bare minimal and disappear into the galleys. Out of the 4, one woman was VERY good. The other was the loopy one who had no idea about basics such as meal options on board. They all seemed to have an attitude – like put the food on your face, respond to call button after a long time, and be rude about it. Moreover, they were lazy. I did not see them lift a little finger to help during boarding … and they were nowhere to be seen between service runs. Overall, mechanical and absolutely no warmth whatsoever.
IV> Post-Flight:
Boston is by far my favorite U.S. port of entry and I had done immigration in a record 4 minutes. Also, baggage delivery was smooth and I was out of the door within 15 minutes of arrival. It was amusing to see every bag coming out of the carousel marked "PRIORITY".
V> Impressions + Scores:
I wish I could say positive things about the Lufthansa experience. There was not really any part of the experience I enjoyed thoroughly. Ground handling (check-in, baggage delivery) were excellent; but the inadequate lounge at MUC left a lot to be desired. On board, the "hardware" was antiquated … the IFE was poor and the seat was way behind industry benchmarks. Usually, poor "hardware" can be saved by good "software". Alas, this was not the case in this instance as the crew was cold, indifferent, and lazy. Poor food and beverage selections ensured at best an above average ride.
Lufthansa will continue to do well and be profitable due to its sheer size and its ability to capitalize on the economies of scale. If I were an European consumer, I would strongly want anti-competitive authorities to scrutinize LH take-over deals. If LH standards become the European benchmark, God save us all. Lufthansa succeeds because it consistently and reliably gets one from point A to B. This is even more appealing when it serves markets where the local carrier is far from reliable. However, service standards on LH are average at best. Its J product is severely outdated and in need of a complete refurbishment. There are far better carriers out there. Hey, it could even learn a lot from its owned Swiss – which still provides a far more pleasant experience than LH.
If given a choice, I would avoid Lufthansa. Of course, if I had to go somewhere on an important business meeting and it was between LH and a "maverick" carrier, I would have to chose LH by defauly. Let us hope that does not become the norm … it would be sad if we chose airlines due to the lack of competition.
(Pre-flight WOI of all reviews: 6.47)
* Weighted Overall Impression (WOI) aligns scores with what matters most. Weights are indicated alongside each category.
(Scores are based on comparison with other airlines in THAT class of service – No comparison of Y vs. F for example)
VI> Other Trip Reports:
8.64: Turkish Airlines (59): JFK-IST: 11/2008
8.61: Air Canada (49): YYZ-SCL: 06/2008
8.61: Air Canada (49): YYZ-SCL: 06/2008
8.11: Aeroflot (33): MOW-DEL: 09/2007
8.04: Korean Air (40): NRT-ICN: 10/2007
8.02: Delta Airlines (24): JFK-CDG: 08/2007
7.82: Singapore Airlines (06): EWR-SIN: 09/2006
7.14: Swiss (52): SCL-GRU: 06/2008
6.93: Delta Airlines (18): SEA-JFK: 11/2006
6.81: Air Canada (17): ICN-YYZ: 10/2006
6.36: Lufthansa/Privatair (60): MUC-BOS: 12/2008
6.25: Korean Air (45): NAN-ICN: 10/2007
6.11: TAP Portugal (53): GRU-OPO: 06/2008
5.75: Singapore Airlines (16): CCU-SIN: 10/2006
5.64: NorthWest (46): ICN-NRT-SEA: 10/2007
4.42: Air France: CDG-JNB (25): 08/2007
ECONOMY: Long + Medium:
9.26: Air India (48): JFK-DEL: 02/2008
7.38: Avianca (01): BOG-LIM: 07/2006
6.41: American Airlines (58): LHR-BOS: 11/2008
6.26: Jet Blue (21): CUN-JFK: 02/2007
6.06: Air Canada (04): YYZ-YVR: 09/2006
5.79: Air New Zealand (42): RAR-NAN: 10/2007
5.46: TAP Air Portugal (23): OSL-LIS: 05/2007
ECONOMY: Short
8.56: Paramount Airways (38): BLR-MAA: 09/2007
8.24: Kingfisher (14): IXA-GAU: 10/2006
7.87: Indian (34): BOM-MAA: 09/2007
7.72: Alliance Air (13): CCU-IXA: 10/2006
7.57: Indian Airlines (10): DEL-CCU: 09/2006
7.23: West Jet (03): YYC-YVR: 09/2006
7.15: JetLite (37): BOM-GOI: 09/2007
6.70: Spice Jet (09): CCU-DEL: 09/2006
6.63: Air Fiji (44): NAN-SUV: 10/2007
6.58: Air Tran (02): EWR-MDW: 08/2006
6.44: CO Micronesia (39): ROR-YAP: 10/2007
6.41: Pacific Sun (43): NAN-SUV: 10/2007
6.37: Skybus (47): SWF-CMH: 02/2008
6.33: Kenya Airways (29): NBO-BJM: 08/2007
6.33: Sky Europe (56): LTN-BTS: 10/2008
6.31: Indigo (15): GAU-CCU: 10/2006
6.31: easyJet (57): BUD-LTN: 11/2008
6.22: Air Link Swazi (28): MTS-JNB: 08/2007
6.22: Air India (36): HYD-BOM: 09/2007
6.13: Adam Air (07): SIN-CGK: 09/2006
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Thomasville, GA- October 11, 2012
Local organizations are joining forces to help veterans find jobs.
The Georgia Department of Labor and Southwest Georgia Technical College hosted a workshop Thursday to inform veterans about the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program also known as VRAP.
VRAP is part of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act created in 2011, which gives financial assistance to unemployed veterans who want to go back to school to receive training in courses of study that will lead to a high demand occupation.
"Through the Department of Labor, we are trying to give the veterans another avenue to be able to get retrained and educated to then find another employment," said Sondra Crawford. a VA Certifying Official at SWGTC.
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Attention Community Centers and Churches that serve food. Non-profits are being taxed by Health Department if you serve food. To express your views on this attend the Health Dept. meeting on June 14 at noon on the second floor, Wheeling City-County Building.
They say this is a permit to serve food and an inspection goes along with it. I have no problem with the inspections but our small community center can't afford this permit for a steak fry or spaghetti dinner. This permit (another name for tax) is based on how many you can seat. This is on all Ohio County churches and community centers.
To speak at meeting, call Howard Gamble at 304-234-3682 to get on the agenda. We won't have much impact unless a lot of us complain. I know they are fair enough to hear our concerns. Call Sandy Assaro at 304-277-2469 so Sue and I know we won't be by ourselves.
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U-M program trains students to study cancer in international, minority populations
Studying cancer rates outside U.S. offers environmental, genetic clues
Researchers awarded $1.2 million training grant for cancer epidemiology
ANN ARBOR, MI – By studying cancer in ethnically diverse settings, researchers learn important clues about genetic and environmental factors that play a role in this disease. But few cancer researchers have the expertise to look at these populations.
The University of Michigan School of Public Health has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to train public health students in cancer epidemiology research in special populations. The school will work with the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the program will focus on 15 countries in Asia, Africa and South America, as well as minority populations in the United States.
This program will be a major component in the School of Public Health's new Center for Global Health.
"Developing countries, with their unique contrasts in lifestyles and environmental exposures, provide an incomparable and often neglected opportunity for studying how cancer develops," says program director Amr Soliman, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health and a member of the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The new program will work with researchers in Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan and Hong Kong. Domestic projects will focus on African-Americans, migrant workers, Hispanics and Arab-Americans.
By understanding cancer trends in international populations, researchers can apply that knowledge to minority populations in the United States.
Studying cancer in foreign populations could lead researchers to a new genetic pathway that could in turn lead to a targeted treatment. Or they could spot an environmental factor that plays a role in cancer development. International cancer research has also helped shape disease prevention. For example, research on hepatitis B in Taiwan revealed an association between the viral infection and liver cancer, leading to recommendations of the hepatitis B vaccine for all American children.
"Unfortunately, cancer research is much more difficult to conduct in the developing countries because of the lack of population-based registries, poor communication and transportation systems, and a limited number of trained cancer researchers. These difficulties could be overcome with improved collaboration in cancer research between the developing and industrialized nations," Soliman says.
The new program, Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations, will recruit 50 students over five years. It will leverage existing relationships between U-M faculty and cancer researchers in countries such as Israel, Egypt and Brazil.
Students will take specialized classes to learn about cancer epidemiology research, which looks at trends in cancer rates to help identify possible environmental or genetic causes. Coursework will also include an international summer field research experience or the opportunity to collaborate with local investigators specializing in minority research.
Researchers have found disparities in cancer incidence and patterns in different ethnic groups. For example, in Egypt, 35 percent of colon cancer patients are under age 40 and colon cancer rarely occurs in older populations, whereas it tends to strike older Americans and is infrequent in those younger than 40.
Other projects students and researchers will work on under this grant include investigating aggressive breast cancer in Africa by Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Cancer Center's Breast Oncology Program; and Lisa Newman, M.D., director of the Cancer Center's Breast Care Center; and pancreatic cancer in Arab-Americans by Diane Simeone, M.D., co-director of the Cancer Center's Gastrointestinal Oncology Program. Other core faculty on this grant include George Kaplan, Ph.D., Director of Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, UM-SPH; MaryFran Sowers, Ph.D., Director of Center for Integrated Approaches to Complex Diseases, UM-SPH, and Mark Wilson, Sc.D., Director of Global Health Interdepartmenal Concentration Program at UM-SPH.
Cancer causes 6 million deaths every year worldwide. Cancer rates are expected to increase 50 percent to 15 million new cases by 2020.
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UK Retailer HMV has cut 190 jobs across the board, according to administrator Deloitte. Earlier reports had pegged the layoffs at 60, but the group overseeing the retailer's administration later confirmed the larger number. Most notably HMV's head of technology and games Ewan Pinder was given a pink slip today. The 60 workers who lost jobs were apparently from HMV's head office in the UK.
"The last two years at HMV have been a blast," he said on Twitter. "Now to the future!! Hope it all works out for the team that remains. First batch now gone and questions being fielded. Clearly very upsetting and unhappy."
MCV also reports that chief financial officer Ian Kenyon has been let go but the games team currently "remains largely intact."
Earlier in the day HMV's official Twitter account posted a number of messages on the subject from someone that was in the process of being fired. Later the messages were removed, but Polygon has an archive of them if you are interested. The tweets were reportedly from a laid off employee at the head office.
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Today's SAFSee classic game is a cracker - the Black Cats' 4-1 win over Chelsea from December 1999.
Current Sunderland head coach Gus Poyet was in the Blues' line-up, scoring the visitors' consolation goal.
Chelsea couldn't live with Peter Reid's side, who were ahead inside the first minute when Niall Quinn tapped home from close range.
A scorching strike from Kevin Phillips doubled Sunderland's lead, and the hosts made it 3-0 when Phillips converted after Ed De Goey parried a Quinn effort.
The London side were stunned and Reid's men opened up a 4-0 half-time lead thanks to Quinn's second goal of the game.
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Midday Roundup: Guilty plea for man who killed 6-week-old unborn baby
Pro-life plea. A Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday to tricking his pregnant girlfriend into taking an abortion pill that caused her to miscarry her unborn child. John Andrew Welden, 28, faces up to 13 years in prison for killing the baby. His girlfriend, Remee Lee, said she was thrilled when she learned she was pregnant, and madly in love with the baby's father. Weldon tricked her into taking the drug by telling her it was an antibiotic she needed to take to clear up an infection. Lee and Weldon had gone to his father's obstetrics clinic just days before to confirm the pregnancy. Although she was only six weeks pregnant, Lee recognized the magnitude of what she lost: "There's just no words for the horror I wake up with every day that this is my reality. There's no escaping it, there's no turning it off."
Plan B? Even as President Barack Obama prepares to make his case tonight for military action against Syria, he said in interviews yesterday he would consider a Russian-brokered plan to contain and account for all of the country's chemical weapon stockpiles. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday containing the weapons offered the only alternative to military action. Seizing an opportunity, Russia's foreign minister immediately said he would try to talk Syrian President Bashar al-Assad into considering such a surrender. This morning, a Syrian spokesman said his country would agree to the plan. But Obama administration officials remain skeptical—almost as skeptical as the American people are about taking military action. A new poll shows 60 percent of voters oppose a strike, and a majority of lawmakers have either pledged or hinted that they will vote down the president's proposal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced today he would vote no. His problem? Too many "unanswered questions."
Gang-rape verdict. An Indian court earlier today convicted four men charged with brutally gang raping and beating to death a 23-year-old New Delhi student. Protestors outside the courthouse chanted, "Hang them!" as the unprecedented trial came to a close. The sentencing hearing begins tomorrow. The young woman's violent death sparked outrage in India, where rape commonly goes unpunished, and pushed the government to enact changes to prosecution policies. With stiffer penalties for rape in place, the number of reported cases has skyrocketed. Still, instances of gang rape persist.
Fashion faux-pas. A Muslim teen won her discrimination suit against retailer Abercrombie & Fitch today when a judge ruled the popular clothing retailer unfairly fired her for wearing a headscarf. The company claimed it was just following its "look policy," part of a marketing campaign that requires employees to maintain a certain appearance. But the judge found no credible evidence the girl's headscarf harmed sales. This is the second big discrimination suit loss for Abercrombie, which agreed in 2004 to pay $40 million in damages to African-American, Hispanic, and Asian employees.


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FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- The dean of the fine arts department at Fairmont State University has been charged with second-degree sexual assault and placed on administrative leave.
Peter Lach, 68, of Fairmont, was arrested Sunday by university police, according to a criminal complaint filed in Marion County Magistrate Court.
A male employee at the school told police that on Saturday, while in Lach's office in Wallman Hall, Lach pulled down the victim's pants, forcefully restrained him and initiated oral sex.
When the victim told Lach to stop, Lach shoved the victim to the ground and caused him to hit his head on a copy machine, the complaint states.
The victim went to United Hospital Center in Bridgeport and reported the assault.
Lach has worked at the school since July 5, 2002, according to Fairmont State spokeswoman Anne Booth. He was released from the Northern Regional Jail on $50,000 bail on Monday.
Booth said after officials at the school were informed about the alleged incident, State Police were called to assist with the investigation.
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We begin our countdown in Norman Oklahoma where the 10th ranked and undefeated Red Raiders faced their toughest test of the year in the Oklahoma Sooners.
After a big win in Morgantown, Tech was riding high hoping Davis Webb could lead the team to a 2nd Consecutive Road win.
But it was a Kenny Williams pass that got things started for Texas Tech.
The Sooners came storming back though with three unanswered scores as a Damien Williams touchdown gave Oklahoma the 21-7 lead.
With their backs against the wall it was a former Oklahoma verbal commit that got the Red Raiders back in business.
A Ryan Bustin Field goal in the waning moments of the 3rd Quarter pulled Texas Tech within four, setting up the call of the year to that point.
The momentum, seemingly swung back to the Red Raiders with a Jakeem Grant Touchdown that gave Tech the 24-21 lead.
But a big play by Oklahoma's LeColton Bester took momentum back at the end of the third.
After a couple of inopportune Turnovers the Sooners imposed their will on the Texas Tech defense, but Tech still had a chance to cut it to just two, on a two point conversion, but Jakeem Grant just missed Davis Webb's pass as Oklahoma held their 35-30 lead, and the Sooners salted the game away on the ground.
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I have tried the install a few different times with both word press 3.2.1 and 3.3.1 and the latest version of buddypress. I am running a fresh install of word press on mamp, locally on my computer. I can install the buddypress plug in but as soon as i finish setting it up it takes me to the new buddy press site, but then I am unable to log back in to the wordpress dashboard. I have seen this complaint on multiple forums but have not come across a fix for it. I'd love to be able to work with buddypress it seems like fun.
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4 years ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Severity changed from blocker to normal
Can't duplicate this. Until we have a confirmed bug with steps to duplicate, it's more important to keep the support requests in the support forums.
Closing this barring new information. Reopen if anything new comes to light.
4 years ago
- Severity changed from normal to trivial
Ok Buddypress works fine! I just bit the bullet and loaded it onto my dreamhost account and had no problems with it. There must be something screwy about the MAMP setup. If someone has a chance to figure that out and post it that would be useful I do know there are a lot of comments out there about this problem. Maybe all of them are form people trying to use MAMP to run buddy press.
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- Resolution set to worksforme
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I use MAMP Pro for local BuddyPress core development, and it works perfectly fine. Have also used WAMP an Windows and IIS7 too, both with their own quicks but still work great.
Going to close this as worksforme. Feel free to reopen if you find specific bugs in the software that we can fix to improve whatever issues people seem to be having.
4 years ago
I faced exactly the same problem. You can solve it, by increasing the PHP memory limit. This requires however MAMP Pro. Have a look at which PHP version MAMP Pro is using, and then change the PHP memory parameter in the PHP template for that PHP version (in MAMP Pro: go to File -> Edit template -> PHP -> the .ini file that refers to the version that MAMP Pro is currently using). See also http://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/blank-pages/