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For sales and marketing teams, conversations are gold.
The more convos you can have, the better you understand your customers, and ultimately win more of their trust & business. Even if your product has a 7-figure price tag or is a $10/month subscription, conversations with people provide rapport, feedback, and trust.
The difficulty with conversations is that until recently, conversations haven't been scalable! It takes a lot of time to chase prospects, engage and follow up, set meetings, and chat. Replicate this across thousands of people, add in the complexity of managing these contacts, and you have a whirlwind of a mess!
Fortunately, there are now tools like ScaleRep that harness the power of conversations into your marketing and sales funnels. In working with our users, we've surfaced 4 guidelines in leveraging the power of conversations to further enhance your prospecting pipeline:
1. Multi-Channel Conversations
Of course, you know you should be reaching your target market across several channels, but take that a step further to initiate conversations across multiple channels. It's one thing for people to see a dozen ads on the web, and another for someone from your company to reach out directly and ask if they need assistance.
Our data shows outreach that initiates conversation and includes 1 more channel in addition to a direct email yields an average 2.5X larger response rate that cold email outreach. ScaleRep does this through utilizing voicemail and text (when appropriate) to augment email outreach and to and ask them if they need help.
Outreach that initiates conversation and includes at least 1 more channel in addition to a direct email yields an average 2.5X larger response rate.
2. Following Up With Referrals and Auto-Replies
If you're in sales, your inbox is probably filled with leads that have auto-replied or responded saying they're not the right person to engage with.
The vast majority of orgs don't follow up with these messages, but they frequently present the best opportunities to engage with prospects.
Engaging with leads that left an auto-reply and leads that were referred yield a reply rate of 26%–40%. That's a 6–10x better reply rate than a standard cold outreach campaign.
We've found that welcoming back people after they're out-of-office as well as asking for referrals (and reaching out to those referred leads!) is a great way to converse and engage with more people.
Here's a representation of what ScaleRep's auto-reply and referral mining looks like — We've found these tactics to yield a 6–10X better reply rate than cold outreach.
3. Reply Handling
Most teams miss the best opportunities to engage with prospects when they reply — either because they are busy, it's not immediately actionable, it's a negative reply, or it gets lost among the dozens of other sales inquiries.
You should try to reply to as many interactions as possible and follow up with timely responses. As members of the marketing and sales community, we know this is a must, but it falls on the wayside of the list of priorities.
ScaleRep has users define responses to common replies in order to initiate further conversations and to make sure leads don't fall through the cracks. Each reply is catered to engage prospects in a genuine back-and-forth to bring up opportunities to share your product.
A few examples of replies we've generated templates for can be seen below.
A snapshot of a list of common replies ScaleRep is tracking on behalf of one of our users.
4. Timely Re-Engagement
At the end of the day, marketing and sales teams connect with a small number of people, and the majority of teams fail to reach their target market. Most teams forget about these leads and continue with prospecting. Our data shows that leads that have been reached out to and have engaged with your content have a much better chance of becoming a paying customer. In fact, ScaleRep data shows that:
Leads which have been previously engaged and nurtured are 2–5x more likely to engage with material and convert to a sales opportunity
From our experience, timely nurturing increases the likelihood that folks will engage with a company and become a qualified sales opportunity. Other data sources also show that nurtured leads spend more money on product and are more likely to be sales-ready.
The Devil's in the Details
Some of these insights are straightforward and obvious, yet the number of firms that successfully do this is quite small. The amount of time and effort for teams to nurture leads, reply to every potential customer, and mine auto-replies and referrals is huge, even if you know there is real ROI there.
Thankfully, that's where ScaleRep comes in — if this is something that we can help your company with, we'd love to connect!


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Patient Testimonials – New York Urology Specialists
Dear Dr. Alex: We want to thank you for the excellent care you provided for George during his emergency operation [for blood in urine] and the follow up treatment. Your quiet, confident manner was reassuring to us during a very scary time for us. We will never forget you. George Sally R. Date: 2013
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Author Kristen Hunt!
About the author
Kristen Hunt is an artist and writer based in Phoenix, Arizona. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Justice Studies and has always wanted to be in the FBI. She is an avid fan of movies, graphic novels and Young Adult literature. Anything evolving fantasy and supernatural experiences captures her interests. In her spare time, Kristen loves to read graphic novels, paint, watch movies, cosplay, and have tea parties with her friends. She is obsessed with unicorns and feels that everyone has a little magic inside of them.
Current projects: Kristen is currently writing a Viking novel based on her Viking heritage with her twin sister Tawney Bland.
This is the page for when I'm luckily enough to do an interview with an author!
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Chicago Mom Blog: Breastfeeding: Formula-Fed America
And, yes, I do realize I've opened a can of breastfeeding [or formula-feeding] worms. I hope we can still be friends even if we do not agree. :)
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just wondering if it is possible to start breastfeeding again after your milk has "dried up". I breast fed for 5 months and stopped for numerous reasons. But if I chose to start again is it possible?ReplyDelete
Lorraine, it is possible to begin relactating. If you are in the Chicago area, I know a great lactation consultant who could help you out. If not, this page http://www.breastfeedingbasics.com/html/Relactation.shtml, has information about how you can get in touch with a certified lactation consultant.ReplyDelete
I sincerely wish you the best in whatever decision you make, whatever the outcome. Big hugs to you, mama, because these parenting decisions are not easy.
I'm with you, Hyacynth - and posted a comment, as well :) Congrats on the lovely article, and keep your chin up. Interesting comment discussion!ReplyDelete
I loved your article, and I also posted a comment. I think your last line here sums things up...can't we all just get along? Uggghh, I could go on and on, but I'll just be nice.ReplyDelete
Hyacynth I am not in the Chicago area, but I will check out the website. Thank you very much.ReplyDelete
Thanks, @Michelle and @MegRyansMom, which by the way is such a fun screen name. :)ReplyDelete
Let me know if I can help in anyway, @Lorraine Renee'
There's nothing better than good conversation ... but not while talking to myself. Will you play a part in this discussion?
AND will you pretty please have your email linked to your account or leave it for me so I can respond?
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Launch Pad: Porsche Macan
This evening I'm flying to Germany with Porsche – to do something I'm really looking forward to.
No, it's not a lap of the 'ring in the 918 – nor is it an Autobahn blast in a Panamera.
Technically, it's not even a launch. And I won't be doing any driving. But it is a close look at Porsche's new compact SUV, the Macan.
So why is the Macan such a big deal that it's worth travelling across Europe just to look at it? Well, when we first saw the Macan at the LA Motor Show last month, we reported that Porsche expects to sell 50,000 a year. To put that into context: Porsche sold 143,000 cars in total last year.
I expect Porsche will try and gloss over the fact the Macan is very closely related to the Audi Q5 – but I'm keen to find out what they've done to make it into the 'sports car' the manufacturer insists it is.
We know that there'll be a choice of three V6 engines when the Macan first arrives in the UK in Spring – including a 3.0-litre diesel (as seen in the Cayenne and Audi SQ5), a 3.0-litre petrol and a 3.6-litre turbo, capable of reaching 62mph in 4.8 seconds. We recently configured our ideal Macan, and opted for the diesel.
But is performance enough to make it desirable to buyers of compact SUVs? Its main rivals will be the already mentioned Q5, as well as the BMW X3. It's more Freelander size than Evoque, but if we see a hot Evoque launched soon, it'll be a direct rival.
What would you like to know about the new Porsche Macan? Comment below or tweet me (@TheAndrewBrady) and I'll put your questions to the experts.


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The pilot of the aircraft which crashed at the weekend killing R&B star AALIYAH and all seven other passengers was convicted on a crack cocaine rap less than a fortnight ago and was not authorised to fly the plane.
Luis Morales pleaded no contest to possession of the drug in a Miami court on August 13. He had been stopped in Pompano Beach in Miami on July 7 after running through a stop sign. While officers were issuing him a ticket for the traffic offence, they spotted a vial of crack on the passenger seat.
According to The New York Post, it was the second time in several months he had been arrested. In November, he was arrested for theft and possession of stolen goods after trying to sell stolen aircraft parts. During the August court appearance he faced both drug and theft charges, pleading no contest to both. He received a three-year suspended sentence and was ordered by the court to undergo regular drug testing as part of the probation.
As a result of the plea, Morales' pilot licence should have been revoked under Federal Aviation Administration rules. MTV reports that while the license hadn't been revoked yet, he was not authorised to fly the 'plane, which was operated by Blackhawk International Airways.
Despite all this, Morales flying ability has never been called into question. He was an "exceptionally good pilot", his flying instructor Steve Daun said.
The ill-fated Cessna 402 crashed almost immediately after take-off on Saturday (August 25) on a short hop from the Bahaman island of Abaco over to Miami. It has been reported that Morales had warned Aaliyahand her crew that they were bringing so much heavy video equipment onto the plane that it would pose a danger. But after an argument, he is said to have given in.
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Jesse Metcalfe Is Engaged to Cara Santana!
Jesse Metcalfe is engaged to longtime love Cara Santana!
The 37-year-old Desperate Housewives actor popped the question to Cara, 31, while sailing down New York City's Hudson River in a 50-foot boat.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jesse Metcalfe
"It's been a long time coming, but we couldn't be happier," Jesse told Us Weekly. The couple has been together for over ten years and they have been rumored to be engaged in the past, but now it's finally official!
Congratulations to the happy couple on the exciting news!


text: Share: Comments Print June 29, 2008 at 5:52 PM Mystics game thread Posted by Jayda Evans ANOTHER RECORD: The Storm set a season-record for opponent scoring, holding the Mystics to 49 points on 33.9 percent shooting. Beard, normally an electric scorer, was 6 of 17 from the field for 16 points and four rebounds. Bird was Seattle's high-scorer with 14 while the bench was good, again, with Wright, A-Rob, and Shyra Ely making plays. Storm wins 64-49 and improves to 8-1 at KeyArena. FOR THREE: LJ missed all four of her attempts against LA and has only hit five in her past five games, but Jackson hist another one with 2.3 remaining in the third to give Seattle a 47-34 lead headed into the fourth. This is going to be a brutal score, but that's what happens when you play solid defense. Seattle is holding Washington to 36.6 percent shooting, although the Mystics did shoot 50 percent in the third. FOR THREE: A three-pointer by Swoopes put the team up 42-32 after a scary little rally by the Mystics. Seattle just forced Washington into a shot-clock violation, too, which is keeping the Mystics rattled. There's 6:02 remaining in the third. A LITTLE DRIVE: Little made her first basket as a Storm, a clean baseline drive to the hoop with 3:54 remaining. The score is 33-22, but Little did pick up another foul. Storm offense is back up to 52 percent. FIRST BUCKET: Jackson hit her first FG, a put back on a rebound with 4:58 remaining in the half. But the Australian is getting some offensive help tonight from Bird, Swoopes, and Cash, who are a combined 10-of-15 from the field. Seattle leads 31-17 with 4:20 left in the quarter. SINGLE FOCUS: When asked what Rollins saw on the Storm's roster, Rollins' sole answer was Jackson, perhaps remembering her 47-point night in Washington. He said his team would double-team the reigning MVP and he wasn't kidding. Jackson just scored her first points of the game at the 6:59 mark off two free throws, missing her three FG attempts as she was swarmed by Mystics defenders. Add a bucket by Swoopes and the Storm is back up 25-15 in the second quarter. SMACK THAT: LJ had a monster block on F Kendra Wecker that got the crowd roused. The Storm is playing entertaining defense with Swoopes just picking up a steal. They have dropped offensively (40 percent), though, and Beard just sank a three-pointer at the buzzer signaling the end of the opening quarter, which inched the Mystics within 17-12. LITTLE DEBUT: Newcomer Camille Little made her debut at the 4:52 mark of the first quarter and promptly was scored on by a driving layin by Mystics G Nikki Blue. Washington started off cold, but has picked up its play to pull within 14-9. Bird started strong for the Storm, making three of her opening four baskets. Seattle is shooting 50 percent from the field. LOTS OF PRIDE: Storm co-owner Anne Levinson served as Grand Marshall with Governor Christine Gregoire of today's Pride parade through downtown Seattle. It was about 90 degrees in the city and Storm CEO Karen Bryant said Levinson was well received with lots of "hooting and hollering." Both are out lesbians along with forward Sheryl Swoopes, who came out in 2005. Swoopes said she'd do it again because she needed to get it off her chest. But she said she hasn't read any message boards or letters regarding her decision and never expected more players to announce their sexuality because of her. "When I made the decision, I didn't think it would be as crazy as it was. That it would blow up like it did," said Swoopes, who won the league's MVP title that season. "If I had to do it all again, I don't know if I would care to do all of the interviews. There were some great things that came from it, but for me it was no big deal. If me doing it all over again is going to help somebody that might be dealing or struggling with their sexuality, then absolutely I'd do it. But if it's not going to help anybody, no. And my advice then and now is to feel comfortable with who you are and live your life. If you want to be in the closet the rest of your life, that's your choice. If that means you want to come out, that's your choice, too. Ultimately, you are the one that's going to have to deal with every issue that comes with coming out or not." WELCOME BACK: Former Storm assistant Jessie Kenlaw made trips back to KeyArena with Houston last season and returned again as part of the Mystics staff. She said life is good in D.C., but taking some adjusting from life in the south. Kenlaw lives downtown and doesn't have far to commute since all of the front-office staff is now located in the Verizon Center. Trade pick-up Camille Little could see action tonight for the Storm while reserve G Tanisha Wright will see more time at the PG position since the Storm cut rookie Kimberly Beck before contracts became guaranteed on Saturday. Starting PG Sue Bird said she'd have to "suck it up" for one game and play extended minutes, but feels she's "in the best shape" she's been ina long time and isn't bothered by her career-high average 35.2 minutes. "Brian and I have talked a lot about what's best for me in terms of my subs and he does a good job of seeing when I need a quick blow," Bird said. Many onlookers are concerned because of the upcoming Olympics, where Bird is expected to be the starting PG. But because the games are centralized with no travel and the team is deep, Bird anticipates playing less while in China. Agler believes the same. Guard play will be key against Washington as the Mystics feature a tough perimeter in Nikki Blue, Alana Beard, and Monique Currie. Coach Tree Rollins credited Blue's play to helping the team winning four of its past five games, especially a statement win against Los Angeles on Thursday. "Our defense is starting to pick up and we finally got a steady rotation at point guard," Rollins said. "At the beginning of the year, we were changing the starting point guard every two games. We're just getting comfortable with each other." Incidentally, Agler is now leaning toward picking up another perimeter player to help the Storm in the backcourt. Teams can sign players to 7-day contracts beginning July 1. Former Washington star Kristen O'Neill, who has been serving as a practice player since being cut during training camp, is in the mix to be added to the team. Well, here are tonight's starters: STORM F Swin Cash F Lauren Jackson C Yolanda Griffith G Sheryl Swoopes G Sue Bird MYSTICS F Monique Currie F Taj McWilliams-Franklin C Crystal Langhorne G Alana Beard G Nikki Blue Tonight's officials are Penny Davis, James Breeding, and Eric Brewton. Comments


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President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition team is nearing picks for heavyweight cabinet-level posts such as the secretaries of state and of the Treasury, attorney general, and ambassador to the United Nations.
Trump and Putin talk, officially.
They were accused by detractors of being bosom buddies, in cahoots over underhanded efforts to rig the American election — accusations candidate Trump denied. Now, President-elect Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia have spoken.
The Kremlin released a readout Monday of the first call between Mr. Putin and the president-elect since he won the election, saying the men expressed mutual optimism about improving the dire state of relations between the two countries.
According to the Kremlin, Mr. Putin said he hoped to work with Mr. Trump in an atmosphere of mutual respect without interfering in each other's internal affairs. They also talked about fighting international terrorism and settling the crisis in Syria.
The Trump transition team reported that "President-elect Trump noted to President Putin that he is very much looking forward to having a strong and enduring relationship with Russia and the people of Russia."
While Mr. Trump said he hoped to have a constructive relationship with Russia, he insisted during one of his debates with Hillary Clinton that he was "no puppet" of Mr. Putin.
A justice speaks.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who once called Mr. Trump a "faker" who "has no consistency about him," said on Monday what she likely wanted to avoid: Mr. Trump will make the Supreme Court whole again.
"Most immediately our vacancy will be filled," she told a meeting of the Jewish Federations of North America at a Washington hotel. "President Trump will fill it."
She urged the Senate to act promptly on the president-elect's nomination to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. "Eight is not a good number," she said. At full strength, the court has nine members.
Obama opens up.
At a news conference on Monday before an overseas trip, the president struck a diplomatic tone.
• On Stephen K. Bannon's appointment as chief White House strategist, which civil rights groups, Democrats and some Republicans have criticized, President Obama demurred, saying, "It would not be appropriate for me to comment on every appointment that the president-elect starts making."
• Faced with repeated questions about Mr. Trump's temperament, Mr. Obama expressed hope that the presidency would be a reality check. "His gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest upsets in political history, hopefully he will put to good use," Mr. Obama said.
• On his Democratic Party, Mr. Obama said that a period of reflection was healthy, that new voices were necessary and that the stunning defeat should be a warning. "It takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality," he said. "Hopefully it's a reminder that elections matter."
• On immigration, Mr. Obama urged Mr. Trump to "think long and hard" about endangering the status of young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children. He described them as "American kids."
Hate crimes surge, led by attacks on Muslims.
The F.B.I. reported Monday that attacks against American Muslims rose last year, driving an increase of about 7 percent in hate crimes against all victims.
The data, the most comprehensive look at threat crimes nationwide, expanded on previous findings by researchers and outside monitors, who have noted an alarming rise in some types of hate crimes tied to the intense vitriol of the presidential campaign and the aftermath of terror attacks at home and abroad since 2015.
A wave of racially charged assaults, graffiti attacks and other episodes has swept the country since Election Day, prompting Mr. Trump to call for a halt to it during a "60 Minutes" interview broadcast on Sunday night.
In its report Monday, the F.B.I. cataloged a total of 5,818 hate crimes in 2015 — a rise of nearly 340 over the year before — including assaults, bombings, threats and property destruction against minorities, women, gays and others.
Attacks against Muslim Americans saw the biggest surge: 257 reports of assaults, attacks on mosques and other types hate crimes against Muslims last year, a jump of about 67 percent over the year before. It was the highest total since 2001, when the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks saw more than 480 attacks.
Attacks against transgender people also sharply increased, the data showed.
Law enforcement officials acknowledge that the statistics give an incomplete picture because many local agencies still have a spotty record of reporting hate crimes, 26 years after Congress directed the Justice Department to begin collecting the data.
"We need to do a better job of tracking and reporting hate crime to fully understand what is happening in our communities and how to stop it," James B. Comey Jr., the F.B.I. director, said Monday.
File under: Oh, to be a fly on the wall, Trump and Xi.
Mr. Trump has spoken with President Xi Jinping of China, the presidential transition team announced on Monday, and the world likely thought, "Interesting."
According to the announcement, in a call that took place on Monday Beijing time, Mr. Xi congratulated Mr. Trump for "winning a historic election," and the president-elect thanked the Chinese leader for his well wishes.
"During the call, the leaders established a clear sense of mutual respect for one another, and President-elect Trump stated that he believes the two leaders will have one of the strongest relationships for both countries moving forward," the statement said.
No mention of whether Mr. Trump's repeated campaign threats against Chinese trade practices came up, nor his statement that climate change was a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese, nor his get-tough promises on economic relations moving forward.
Bernie Sanders speaks out.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who mobilized a movement but not enough votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination, is stepping forward as an alternative to the party's leadership and a stalwart against racial politics.
Taking to his campaign Twitter handle on Monday, he decried the Democrats' loss of white, working-class voters to President-elect Trump.
He added, "The Democratic Party has to stand with working people, feel their pain and take on the billionaire class, Wall Street and drug companies.
But he also said that the new role of Mr. Bannon in the Trump White House as senior counselor and chief strategist should make the country "very nervous." The country has battled "discrimination and racism and sexism and homophobia" for hundreds of years, he said in an interview on ABC's "The View" program on Monday, and the country could not afford to move backward.
"We're going to tell Mr. Bannon and any other advisers that we're not going to be turning on each other," Mr. Sanders said. "We're going to be standing together."
In concert, liberal activists staged a sit-in in the office of Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the incoming Democratic minority leader, to demand a leadership position in the next Senate for Mr. Sanders.
Indignation greets Bannon's appointment.
Civil rights groups, Democrats and some Republicans on Monday denounced President-elect Trump's decision to appoint Mr. Bannon to a top White House position, warning that he represents nationalist and racist views that should be rejected by the incoming president.
Fringe broadcast host says Trump offered thanks.
Alex Jones, an online broadcast host who has accused the government of grand-scale conspiracies, says that President-elect Trump personally called him to thank him for his support during the campaign.
Mr. Jones made the revelation on a brief clip on his website.
"He said, 'Listen Alex, I just talked to the kings and the queens of the world,'" Mr. Jones recalled, saying that Mr. Trump added, "I want to thank you, your audience."
He said the incoming president promised to come on his program again in the next few weeks. He celebrated that Mr. Trump had triumphed over "hoaxes" such as Obamacare.
Mr. Jones was an early booster of Mr. Trump, who appeared on his program during the end of the primaries. Mr. Jones has charged, among other things, that the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in December 2012 was a hoax.


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Introduction To Medical 3D Printing (Talk)
A brief overview and survey of 3D modeling and additive manufacturing within the medical industry, focusing on image-based medical models and their applications in training, education, and patient care.
Where: Resistor Room (Room 128)
Who: Intended for adults, Capacity Limit: 35
Time: 30 minutes (10:00-10:30am)
About the Expert: Vladimir Zuzukin, M.D. a physician and surgeon worked in the local tech sector at Scandy and Entrescan in 3D scanning and 3D printing.


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The Avito Duplicate Ads Detection competition ran from May to July 2016. This competition, a feature engineer's dream, challenged Kagglers to accurately detect duplicitous duplicate ads which included 10 million images and Russian language text. In this winners' interview, Stanislav Semenov and Dmitrii Tsybulevskii describe how their single XGBoost model scores among the top three and their ensemble snagged them first place. Stanislav's third Avito competition was a special one, too; his first place win as part of Devil Team boosted him to #1 Kaggler status!
The basics:
What was your background prior to entering this challenge?
Dmitrii Tsybulevskii: I hold a degree in Applied Mathematics, and I've worked as a software engineer on computer vision and machine learning projects.
Stanislav Semenov: I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science. I've worked as a data science consultant, teacher of machine learning classes, and quantitative researcher.
Do you have any prior experience or domain knowledge that helped you succeed in this competition?
Dmitrii Tsybulevskii: Yes, I've worked on image duplicate detection and text classification problems before, and I know the Russian language.
Stanislav Semenov: This is my 3rd Avito competition on Kaggle! And yes, I know the Russian language, too.
What made you decide to enter this competition?
Dmitrii Tsybulevskii: A lot of raw data, both text and images - large field for feature engineering, and I like feature engineering.
Stanislav Semenov: A large area for feature engineering.
Let's get technical:
What preprocessing and supervised learning methods did you use?
It was all about feature engineering. So we tried to generate as many strong features as we could. XGBoost was the only learning method used. Our single XGBoost model can get to the top three! Our final model just averaged XGBoost models with different random seeds.
We used following text preprocessing:
- stemming
- lemmatization
- transliteration
Our features:
- different similarity features between title-title, title-description, title-json like Cosine distance, Levenshtein, Jaccard, NCD, etc
- different features of exact match of words in title, description
- general features such as prices, places, number of images, exact match of title, description, etc
- different similarity features of trained w2v models
- LSI features of ads union, ads XOR
- one-hot-encoding of categoryID
- ratios of the title, description, json lengths
- distances between BRIEF image descriptors
- distances between color histogram in LAB space, HOG histograms
- distances between features, extracted with pretrained neural network MXNet BN-Inception-21k, first averaged PCA components of this features
- number of matches computed with AKAZE local visual feature detector & descriptor
The most important trick was to submit our best result before 2 hours of competition ending. That was EXTREMELY fun! =)
Did knowing Russian help you in this competition? If so, how?
Stanislav Semenov: Not so much. Of course, you can see where your model is wrong and a close look at the ads. But it did not give any new information.
Dmitrii Tsybulevskii: On the one hand it was comfortable to work with Russian texts, because you know what the ads were about. On the other hand we had no killer features based on it.
Which tools did you use?
Jupyter Notebook, XGBoost, Pandas, scikit-learn, VLFeat, OpenCV, MXNet
What was the run time for your winning solution?
Feature extraction: 3-4 days
Model training: 1-2 weeks
Words of wisdom:
What have you taken away from this competition?
Dmitrii Tsybulevskii: I have learned about NCD distance and some convenient things about team cooperation.
Stanislav Semenov: A lot of fun and much needed ranking points. 😉
Do you have any advice for those just getting started in data science?
Stanislav Semenov: Solving practical problems is your best friend.
Dmitrii Tsybulevskii: Kaggle is a great platform for getting new knowledge.
Stanislav Semenov is a Data Scientist and Quantitative Researcher.
Dmitrii Tsybulevskii is a software engineer. He holds a degree in Applied Mathematics. His main interests are computer vision and machine learning.


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Exploration minnows – long a feature of the Irish and UK markets – could flourish as oil majors slash exploration budgets and focus on existing assets, the chief executive of Tullow Oil, Aidan Heavey has predicted.
With the price of oil having slumped, major oil companies are hacking away at costs in order to preserve their balance sheets, and one of the first casualties has been exploration spending budgets.
The price of Brent crude was hovering around $31 a barrel yesterday, half the price it was at this time last year.
"The natural supply and demand will not be met at these oil prices, or even double the current prices, so you're going to end up with a shortfall in supply if you don't start major investment," Mr Heavey, inset, told the Irish Independent.
Mr Heavey said he hopes some oil price stability will manifest itself later this year.
"There's no doubt there's an oversupply of oil in the world, but most of it is in the ground, it's not flowing," he added.
"The oil industry operates in cycles. You have a period of time when there's a major disruption in the industry and that causes consolidation," he said.
"People concentrate on production and development, not exploration. It's the small minnows who start the exploration again. The gap in the market ends up being filled by small companies."
Mr Heavey was speaking as Tullow Oil reported a pre-tax loss of $1.3bn for 2015, which was narrower than the $2.04bn loss it reported in 2014. Its revenue fell 27pc to $1.6bn. Shares in the company fell 8pc in London. They're at about a tenth of the level they were back in 2012.
Tullow is largely focused on Africa, where it has a 35pc stake in the huge Jubilee offshore oil field off Ghana. Tullow also has a 47pc stake in the massive TEN field close to Jubilee.
By next year, Tullow will be generating about 100,000 barrels of oil a day in west Africa, compared to 66,600 last year.
Oil is due to start flowing from TEN in July or August this year, and even at current oil prices, Tullow will become cash flow positive from the end of this year, Mr Heavey said. He added that if oil prices remain at their current levels, then the company will use cash to help reduce its $4bn net debt.
Once the TEN field starts operating, Tullow's capital expenditure commitments fall sharply. Its 2016 capital expenditure is expected to drop to about $900m, with $600m of that earmarked for TEN. It said it has the potential to reduce group capital expenditure from 2017 onwards to about $300m.
Tullow moved quickly last year to slash its costs, and reduced its headcount by 37pc. It expects to generate $500m in savings over five years.
Mr Heavey conceded that it is frustrating that Tullow continues to be battered by markets.
"If you do the right things, do them quickly and lead the way in doing them, you'll be the first to recover," he said. "But no matter what you do in the current climate, there is a negative position in relation to oil. If the oil price goes down, we go down; if it goes up, we go up. All you can do is make sure the company is in good shape."
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The Secret to Sweet, Glowing Skin
All through the winter, you dream of the sizzling summer season, when the sun, delicately reveals the radiant beauty of your supple skin and gives you a healthy glow. You imagine the time when you're able to take off your heavy coat with winter scarf and hat when looking out your frosted window that depicts wintry weather filled with cold icicles on the trees and soft snow on the ground.
You delight in wearing light clothing, shorter skirts if you're female and short-sleeve shirts with tank tops during the hot summer months. You long for the warm feel of the sun and a refreshing breeze on your skin and want a glowing complexion that indicates thriving health, a way off from a pale washed out winter complexion.
Your Skin Can Be Clogged with Dead Cells
You may not think of your skin as an organ like your heart and lungs; nevertheless, it's considered the largest organ in your body. It's a cleansing organ that serves as a protective covering with pleasant characteristics that help to define your unique features. Your skin will excrete about a pound of bodily waste and toxins through your sweat glands. It sheds dry skin layers, in addition, to regulate your body temperature.
When your skin pores become clogged with dead cells your skin loses its capacity to eliminate the daily toxic buildup, such as uric acid and elasticity. The detoxifying load falls upon your delicate kidneys, and your liver to eliminate this increasing load of toxins that can cause them to become overworked. This causes a slowing down of your cell regeneration process and oxidation of all your precious cells.
Your Body Breathes Through Your Skin. You Need to Drink Water and Must Eat Healthy Fruits and Veggies for Vibrant Tight Skin
Did you know your body also breathes through your skin by absorbing oxygen and exhaling the carbon dioxide that forms in your tissues? When your skin is healthy, it can aid your body to function properly and helps prevent premature aging.
When your skin is dry, itchy or easily irritated, there is a fair chance you need to eat more foods with essential fatty acids in your diet to plumb up the fat content of your skin to make it turn into smooth, soft skin. Drink more water and eat foods containing specific skin care vitamins such as vitamin C, vitamin A, and all the B vitamins.
Your skin will look radiant when you regularly eat foods that contain flax-seed, walnuts, and sunflower oils. You must also eat less of deep-fried, fatty foods that contain Trans Fatty-Acids, which promote free-radical damage to your underlying skin tissue.
What Your Skin Craves Most
It's more efficient to obtain needed vitamins in authentic foods. Natural and nutrient dense foods provide the best nutrition for your skin. Contrary to synthetic vitamins that will overtax your liver and kidneys with mega doses of vitamins that require heaps of processing to leave your body. Man-made vitamins make the color of your urine dark, yellow or orange. This is a signal you are overworking your organs, a sure thing which eventually leads to a mechanical breakdown of your bodily systems and skin cells.
The vitamin C content in leafy vegetables and fruits such as kiwi, strawberries and fresh-squeezed orange juice naturally feed the collagen of your skin. Collagen is the elastic cement that holds the cells of your body together and keeps your skin-tight, free from wrinkles and flabby skin. You must ultimately get vitamin C from fruits and vegetables because your body does not know how to synthesize this most powerful vitamin. You will know when you are lacking in vitamin C, because, your gums will tend to bleed when you floss and brush your teeth, and then the collagen in your skin will start to break down and lose its elasticity and become lifeless and also begin to sag.
Eat Healthy Foods to Nourish Your Skin from the Inside
Vitamin A is easily assimilated when you eat carrots, sea vegetables, mangoes, dried apricots, collard greens and many other fruits and vegetables. Vitamin A aids, to maintain smooth, soft skin and helps in the growth and repair of your body tissues. So do the B vitamins they all benefit the health of your skin. B vitamins naturally occur in nutritional yeast, whole grains, raw nuts, green leafy vegetables, beans and sunflower seeds, including a delicacy of fermented soybeans or Miso is eaten wholeheartedly in Japanese cuisines. These foods will help your skin to retain its youthful appearance.
Eating health foods nourishes your skin from the inside. To nourish your skin from the inside it is necessary to exercise to sweat and to dry brush your skin and use an uncommonly mild soap that does not have a tendency to dry out your skin by washing away your skin's surface oils. Using a dry brush made of natural bristles before bathing stimulates your skin, aids in detoxification and helps to keep unclog your skin pores keeping your skin healthy.
Dry Brushing Exfoliates Skin and Keeps It Healthy
Quick Tips to Improving Your Skin Tone
Improving your skin tone is a simple matter once you are mindful of a few things. You must take your diet into a grand consideration. You are a mirror's reflection of what you eat! How you take care of your skin shows either a glowing radiance or a dull drably undertone.
Besides, gently washing and exfoliating there are intelligent choices you can make to improve your skin tone in diet and choice of skin lotion. Following these tips is not hard at all! Your skin will greatly thank you with a healthy shining radiance.
- Eat an avocado a day
- Juice carrot juice in the afternoon
- Eat sprouted beans
- Take Milk Thistle with your dinner
- Drink Mint Tea to aid digestion
- Eat heaps of ginger or drink Ginger Tea
- Eat Aloe Vera
- Apply Aloe Vera to your skin
- Cook with Turmeric
- Eat sardines three to four times a week
- Simply drink a blend of fresh green leafy vegetables with filtered water
- Eat brown rice
- Apply sesame oil or extra virgin coconut oil once a day on your skin for softness
- Take an Epsom Salt bath to relax and detoxify
- Scrape your tongue with a spoon every day to get rid of bacteria in your mouth
- Eat your proteins with steamed vegetables
- And eat your starches with fresh vegetables, don't eat proteins and starches together
- Drink 1/2 your body weight in ounces of filtered water every day
- Don't eat acid fruits and sweet fruits together
- Chew your food twenty to thirty times before swallowing
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Lightly Scrub Your Skin When Cleaning It
By eating whole foods, exercising, and gently cleaning your skin every day, you'll be able to achieve a glowing complexion that will automatically raise your self-esteem. It'll keep your body functioning at a peak efficiency detoxifying and repairing your body's tissues, and you won't ever develop a nasty mole or skin tag. If you do develop one for whatever reason, after doing the things listed in this hub, don't feel ashamed to have a local dermatologist cut them off, if you can't.
Zap a Mole, Wart or Skin Tag
When you're plagued with unsightly moles, warts, and skin tags, you can safely remove the ugly lesions that make you feel conscious in the comfort of your home. Realize a doctor's approach to surgically remove these deep skin critters; perhaps, will leave you with a nasty scar on your face, neck or shoulders. Make sure these hideous creatures are gently zapped away with a laser, or dissolved with a cream of some sort or lemons or organic castor oil. Gently rum a slice of lemon on your wart, mole or skin tag or use castor oil instead at night.
A good doctor effectively will leave no traces or scars! The following top-notch product on the side is safely found to remove moles, warts and skin tags without leaving a residue.
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can't wait to look very attractive as a result of a healthy skin, thanks.
This is a great article. I'm trying now to do everything I can to keep my skin healthy and young looking...I used to tan, and I'm concerned that it might have an adverse effect on my skin as I age.
A very informative article. It is so important to care for your skin. It ages so quickly doesn't it and the effect is irreversible!


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"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
"Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer."
"I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life."
"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently."
"I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life."
"What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000."
"If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers."
"I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand."
"I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?"
"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
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Every week is different. Some challenge words are more abstract, and some are very visual – like colors, or, in this case, the idea of patterns. I thought this would be a really fun (and relatively easy) one for people to cozy up to; there are patterns EVERYWHERE! I love how people embraced this one. Take a look!
You can click on any image to see additional descriptions if you'd like. If you participated and you don't see your image included, check your hashtags (#irisheyespattern most importantly), or, if you want to be included in the gallery, make sure your profile is public. You don't HAVE to have a public profile to partake in the challenge, but you do have to have a public profile if you want the image to show up in the gallery. Be sure to check in on the Group Page to find out next week's challenge!
Irish Eyes Photography's Community Challenge started on January 17th, 2018. Here are the weekly challenges this far:
- Week 1: Gratitude
- Week 2: Winter
- Week 3: Red
- Week 4: Light
- Week 5: Yum
- Week 6: Safety
- Week 7: Soothe
- Week 8: Eggs
- Week 9: Woman
- Week 10: Green
- Week 11: Transportation
- Week 12: Hands
- Week 13: Open
- Week 14: Pattern
Have a wonderful week everyone!
p.s. next week's theme will be a participant-submitted theme! If you've got a great idea, visit the Facebook page to suggest it! You never know; it may get picked!


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You can buy a cat you have never seen if it's a rare or unusual breed that you've had your heart set on. But this sort of transaction requires a lot of trust by both parties, and you want to be sure you are dealing with a reputable breeder. If your have a trusted breeder then go ahead with the purchase, and have the cat shipped to you through an airline. Also see the cat travel tips on traveling by air in the "Travel & Moving" category.
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Overweight and weight problems is nationwide drawback in modern nations like USA and Europe. The docs additionally didn't give quite a lot of information relating to diet submit surgical procedure so thank you for this site. I found that I was still eating a lot lower than I did before this diet and I used to be gaining. Come to find out, a lot of them had been promoting the diet however I solely found that out after I was already on it. Posts that shed a destructive gentle on the diet were often deleted from the forum.
Nonetheless, the primary physician additionally said I had 'recurrent pancreatitis' and the gastro despatched me a letter referring to 'pancreatic attacks' as properly. Nevertheless as soon as I used to be completely over the pain and consuming stable foods once more I've made the error of consuming meat and have ended up again on a liquid diet.
It can work in the event you can keep on it. Take a look at two of my lenses that deal with diet. I used to be by no means an alcoholic.physician will not be positive why in have this disease but i do have mild scarring on my pancreas. The answer is a vegetarian diet plan for every week does work however only when coupled with common exercises and workouts.
This person, just lately recognized with MS, embarks on a diet plan for higher health. Apart from this gastritis diet menu, you additionally need to observe sure dietary habits that can help do away with the symptoms immediately. I have additionally had a lot more physical ache in my backbone this month, probably associated to my lackadaisical attitude toward sticking to the Wahls diet.
Realizing what I do know now I can only recommend you adhere to a robust anti-inflammatory, low fat diet and take dietary supplements for six months to a 12 months to be able to permit your pancreas to FULLY heal and my ideas are that the possibility of total healing and escape from future episodes of AP and/or development to CP would solely be good IF you could have had solely ONE episode of acute pancreatitis and it was extraordinarily delicate.


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Abu Bakr's Address to Madinah
I hope everyone is in the best of health and in the state of increasing iman. In light of Barack Hussain Obama's inagural address, below is the address of Khalifa-tu-Rasulilah (saw), Abu Bakr (rd) after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (saw). The great companion embodied his wisdom and leadership in just a few words. His words were very strong and gave people the direction that was so bady needed at the time. I hope and pray that we Muslims living in the west can develop the Iman, taqwa, and leadership that Abu Bakr as Siddiq (rd) had. The heart needs to beat…and so we stay alive. Salaam.
"O People! I have been put in authority over you and I am not the best of you. So if I do the right thing then help me and if I do wrong then put me straight. Truthfulness is a sacred trust and lying is a betrayal. The weak amongst you is strong in my sight. I will surely try to remove his pain and suffering. And the strong amongst you is weak to me I will – Allah willing – realise the right from him fully. When obscene things spread among any nation, calamities generally continued to descend upon them. As long as I obey Allah and His messenger, you should obey me, and if I do not obey Allah and His messenger, then obedience to me is not incumbent upon you".
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These words of our predecessor Khalifah Abu Bakr (RA) are profound and is what every leader should say and believe when they are put into positions of leadership.


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London Church Rocks with Nexo Geo S8 & PS R2 Series
SSE Sales has recently completed a major audio and lighting installation, bringing NEXO's compact GEO S8 line array system to a former North London church for the Nigerian-based Christian charity, House on the Rock.
The old building at St George's Church, in Tufnell Park, has been renamed Rock Tower and has reopened as a place of worship. The building, which operated as a theatre and a community space in recent years, has been fully refurbished with a new extension, a cafe with free Internet access for the community, a youth centre and a day care facility for under-fives.
The charity approached SSE over two years ago at the earliest stages of the renovation. SSE was commissioned to install a complete audio and lighting installation for the church auditorium and adjacent spaces.
The audio design for the main auditorium was a challenge because the local Council had set demanding noise restrictions on the building. In addition there was no steel structure for the suspension of the PA, only heavy timber beams. A NEXO GEO S8 system was specified for the main PA. "This was an easy choice", says SSE's Alex Penn, who has worked on the project from the outset. "It provided the renowned NEXO hi-fi quality sound in a very small and lightweight package. This worked both with the aesthetics of the building and the weight restrictions the roof presented."
In order to keep within the noise restrictions set by the council and use all of the available limit, it was important to achieve consistent levels across the auditorium. This was achieved through accurate system design, which included the use of NEXO PS8s as fills under the balcony. CD12 subs were flown with the main PA hangs to keep the majority of the system off the floor and to direct bass onto the balcony using the cardioid pattern. These are supported by 2x RS15 subs operating in omnidirectional mode and located in enclosures at the front of the chancel for sub-bass on the floor.
To ensure the whole system could be controlled and limited, a Master System control was installed using Yamaha DME64N. The DME is also responsible for all signal routing between various areas within the building. The complete NEXO installation is powered via the new NXAMP powered digital TD Controllers. With their impressive Yamaha-powered DSP capability, these are specifically designed for NEXO products to achieve the highest possible audio standards.
On stage, as part of the monitoring system, are new NEXO PS R2 Series wedges. "This was the first time wed used them for this purpose, although they are ideal monitors. They are sold with both LH and RH variations and the new grilles are much more appropriate for wedge monitors than the original PS series as they are stamp-proof."
In total, 8x PS10 R2 and 4x PS15 R2 were delivered, powered via NEXOs NXAMP. "This combination produces a definite audible improvement on the original PS series and keeps standards at the cutting edge of current technology throughout the audio installation."
Because SSE was involved from the start of the project, it has been possible to integrate the audio design into the fully refurbished building. At all stages, SSE has liaised with the architects, building contractors and House on the Rock staff to ensure that the project was implemented as effectively as possible.
"We have been able to contribute to the overall project throughout, which I'm sure has enhanced the Church's function as a live music venue" notes Alex. "This has differed from most of our projects as were able to make design changes as we went along to achieve improvements. For example, close liaison made the cable management more effective than is often the case."
The completed church now provides weekly services, along with a range of community events. "SSE continues to work with House on the Rock and we are now holding weekly training classes with their personnel so they can get the most from their investment," confirms Alex Penn. "We would like to thank all involved with the House on the Rock project and wish the church, its congregation and future generations a happy and prosperous future in this fantastic new facility."


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I've been drawing for about a month now. This is my try on the demon on this site. I think i got it to look decent but failed horrible to get the furry look. I suffer from depression and drawing makes me calm and forget my problems. Thanks for an amazing site, keep up the good work!!!
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It's no small thing, this making of promises, and we assemble everyone we love around us to witness as we put on ritual costumes and gather ourselves for the big leap. When I'm sitting in a wedding crowd, I scan the people around me as the vows are said, wondering what thoughts are rushing through their minds. For no one can hear two young people take those vows and not think about how those weighty, until-death-do-us-part promises have manifested, or will manifest, in their own lives. I find the whole thing fascinating, bemusing, affecting. But if I ever was, I'm not a wedding weeper now. I just settle back and dig the scene, the slight individual variations on this constant theme of everlasting promise and hope.
My beloved brother Bob Zickefoose and his wife Bonnie were celebrating the union of their daughter Holly with Josh this magical day at the Irvine Estate and House Mountain Inn in Lexington, Virginia. What a place to hold a wedding!! The day was soft and warm, the evening was deliriously cool, dry and beautiful, and a fresh breeze was blowing across the patio and dance floor.
Cate (Christy and Will's wee girleen) was being noncompliant; not exactly bad but not real good; setting off on her own despite her parents' spoken admonitions. I followed, just to be safe. Finally she turned around to head back to her folks and gave me my favorite shot of the trip. Fairies are real!!
Come over here and let me get your eyes against that smoky Blue Ridge. O beautiful boy!
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|Bob and our sister Dancin' Nancy.
Father-daughter dance.
The five Zickefooses. Barbara, Nancy, Micky, Bob, and me. How lucky can you get, to have such people in your corner?
I made this post for my family, but for you, too, because it was all too beautiful not to share. Here's to new beginnings and children well-raised!


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Author: livelaughlove2020
It's time to start embracing life for all it has to offer. Whether it be the good or even the bad, it is all just shaping us into the person we are destined to be.
Often times, we can't appreciate the good that happens in our lives because we have let all the bad things shape us for the worse. Take pride in overcoming the bad. Its what allows us to become stronger in light of any situation.
Being able to embrace every aspect of our being, our existence is something that most people are unable to achieve.
In order to do so, we must live within the moment, not to dwell on the past or worry about he future. Accepting and allowing each moment as it presents itself. Only then can we embrace all that we are destined to be and accept all that we have been through.
30 Day Affirmation Challenge Day #22
It's the simple things in life that tend to brighten another's day.
Take time to spread love and joy to all those around you, not only will you carry joy within yourself but you will help to lift others up and bring about smiling faces! 😊😊😃😀😄😁🙃🙂☺😊
30 Day Affirmation Challenge Day #20
20 days in!!! Woot woot!
I don't know about y'all but I feel great! Today is a beautiful day out. I am in Virginia and for the past 2 days we've had some summerish kinda weather.
Today is a day of gratitude for me, please join me in being thankful, and appreciative of everything and everyone around you because there are people out there that have that are worse off, and my heart and prayers go out to them. 🙏🏽


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For over 50 years La Biosthetique Paris brand has stood for a clear profile, quality products, innovations, exclusive services, the development of international Hair and Beauty Trends as well as professionalism in service and co-operation.
The La Biosthetique Headquarters can be found behind the stately façade of one of Paris's beautiful buildings directly opposite the Arc de Triomphe. There are views of the Eiffel tower and the Avenues des Champs-Elysees is moments away.
In the early 50's, biochemist Marcel Contier used his discovery of the physiological connections between hair and skin to create a groundbreaking new approach to beauty.


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It all starts with a conversation. We sit down with you to discuss the communication strategy. What impact do you aim for? Which type of audience do you want to reach? Once this is clear, we get started to execute the plan within the estimated time and budget, keeping you in the loop at all times. An open and honest approach is what we stand for.
A close personal relationship with journalists and influencers is our biggest strength. It is why clients such as Delhaize and Nutricia have chosen to work with Parlez. We know our influencers' interests, style and audience. This expertise enables us to make the best selection to fit your strategic goals.
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by Tracey
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Pei Wei offers an interesting and tasty menu of asian foods. The staff is very attentive and they are meticulous when preparing gluten free food from the gluten free menu. The one time that they made an error, which was just that the kitchen made me the wrong gluten free menu entree and NOT a gluten issue, the manager gave me BOTH gluten free entrees for free PLUS a $30 gift card for the extra wait. I didn't even know there was an issue, so the manager approached us with all of the free food and gift certificates completely on his own. He did all of this out of respect and concern for the customer. They WANT our business and every person there knows a good bit about gluten free requirements. For fun, I asked the cashier on the last visit why I couldn't have tofu in the gluten free entree. He not only knew why, but was able to patiently explain the addition of wheat during the tofu manufacturing process. The intern at my last internist's appointment knew less about the issue than the Pei Wei cashier, so there is obviously some detailed corporate training at play here. The food is always so delicious! Lastly, I always buy a catering container full of brown rice and freeze it for fast meals, and they sell it to me for less than the high quality raw brown rice at any of my local groceries. This is my mainstay dinner out destination.
Steve's response: Thank you Tracey for the insight on this restaurant! Sounds like a great place for gluten free dieters to go! Sounds simialr to PF Changs which I highly recommend.
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Why do Catholics go to Mass? Must go? Why does the priest wears different coloured clothes at different parts of a year? What is that round white wafer thing you eat during Mass? Why do you refer to Jesus as the Lamb of God? Since Catholics celebrate the Mass every Sunday, does it mean that Jesus keep on dying week after week?
Some FAQs which we may find it rather difficult to fathom for a simple answer. Came across the following site at www.catholicmass.org and the following could be somthing of an interesting read.
1. 101 Questions about the Catholic Mass by Fr Theodore Book (Director), Office of Divine Worship, Archdiocese of Atlanta.
2. Catholic Mass Study Guide
Study Guide – Introduction
Study Guide – Session 1
Study Guide – Session 2
Study Guide – Session 3
Study Guide – Session 4
Study Guide – Session 5
Study Guide – Session 6
Study Guide – Session 7
Hope you find it an enlightening read. Do share around.
All credits goes to www.catholicmass.org
The Catholic Mass is the most sacred act of worship a person can participate in upon earth. At the Last Supper, Jesus Christ, sat down with his chosen Apostles for what He knew would be their last meal together. At that supper, Jesus does something new, something never done before, and yet something which continues until the end of time.
Knowing more about the Mass, we can be closer to Christ and to the miracle He left us on that Holy Thursday night.
"The Catholic Mass…Revealed!" (www.catholicmass.org) is designed to help all people, whether Catholic or not, to better understand the miracle of the Mass. We can come to appreciate its beauty, its rhythm, even why many in history have faced death rather than be deprived of the opportunity to participate in the Mass.


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The stand is meant to pair with the Register checkout app that the company unveiled last year to give retail stores a cheaper option than pricey full-featured point-of-sale systems. Square updated its Register app with barcode scanning last month.
Though existing Square customers can purchase other stands, or simply use a free-floating iPad with Square's card swiper, AllThingsD spoke to Square CEO Jack Dorsey about the unserved market that he believes the Square Stand serves:
But that, Dorsey said, is where the point of the product comes in. There's basically two areas being served by POS systems right now — the very small merchants, who use the company's existing card reader software out there (or ones from competitors like PayPal or Intuit), and the big, cumbersome (and rather ugly) POS systems used by restaurants and others that cost somewhere in the area of ten grand or more. For Square's setup, you could slap a $500 iPad on a $300 stand and, perhaps buy one or two of the ticket-printing peripherals to go with it, and be set up for under a grand.
The stand is available for $299, with a USB-compatible cash drawer ($199), receipt printer ($199), and barcode scanner ($99) available as add-ons. Retailers can add an entry-level iPad 2 and have a full register setup for under $1,200.
The Square Stand is available for preorder now, shipping July 8th.


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OASIS is a worship & prayer ministry of New Life Covenant Church. Our purpose is to provide an environment for people to encounter God in a powerful, intimate, and personal way. We provide worship prayer nights, conferences, and revival meetings to bring joy, peace, and freedom that come from the love and power of Jesus Christ.
Currently, we provide worship & prayer nights at college campuses of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin, and Wheaton College. We also visit small youth groups and churches throughout the year and provide a revival meeting/conference.
Lastly, we provide an extended time of worship and prayer at New Life Covenant church once a month. From these meetings, many people have received physical and emotional healings, words of encouragement, supernatural empowerment by the Holy Spirit, a breakthrough from bondages, and a sense of joy and peace from God.
Please join us for OASIS @ PALATINE on the second Sundays of the month at 4:30pm at New Life Covenant Church. Childcare will be provided. (1200 W Northwest Hwy, Palatine, IL)
For the upcoming schedule of OASIS @ U OF I & Wheaton College, please see the announcements.


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