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"One of the things about journalism that relates so closely to native advertising is the desire to put your readers first. If you put your readers' interests and what they care about at the centre, the content that you create is going to resonate with them much more fully and really have a much bigger impact. Brand storytellers should definitely take that lesson from the world of journalism and make sure their readers are at the centre of everything they create," says Melanie Deziel, Branded Content Consultant.
That is why thinking like a journalist might help you become even more awesome at native advertising.
We interviewed Melanie Deziel when she was a speaker at Native Advertising DAYS 2017 and asked her to share some tips and tricks about how to think like a journalist to create great branded content.
Below are highlights from the interview which have been slightly edited for clarity.
Anytime something is different that's a good indication that there's something worth digging into.
Look for anything different
Thinking like a journalist, it's one of those things that's kind of hard to teach, I think. Because for most journalists it just comes naturally to us, we couldn't really explain to you why we know something is a good story. It's just kind of in your gut.
But what we look for is things that are different. Anytime something is different that's a good indication that there's something worth digging into.
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Back up your arguments
It's also important to look for reputable sources. Journalists – the good ones – are always trying to find reputable sources whether it's a research study or an expert quote, or data to back up what you're saying.
You have to let the story take you where it needs to take you.
Let the story unfold
The other thing we really try to do is act in service of your audience. There are very few journalists who wake up in the morning and decide that this is what I want my audience to believe. You have to let the story take you where it needs to take you.
If you go into a story with a preconceived notion of what it will end up like, you put pressure on yourself and sometimes you force something that doesn't work.
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Letting the story unfold and develop is one of the key things that make journalists so flexible and helps lead them to stories that they might not ever have set out to tell to begin with.
If you can adopt those things as a brand then you can probably create more journalistic stories.
We're not waking up in the morning and just wondering when the next press release is going to come.
No one wants to hear about your new product
The other thing you need to do is make sure that you are thinking about what makes your story unique. It's really easy for marketers to think that everything they do is interesting and everyone wants to hear about their new product.
But it's really important to really think about what users don't know and how you can show them what's important about your brand and your product and not just tell them why you're so special.
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I think most brand marketers they think that their company's existence, or their products' existence, or a press release is particularly important to most consumers and it's not. We know that as consumers. We're not waking up in the morning and just wondering when the next press release is going to come.
So you really have to think about what's special? What are you doing that's different or surprising? Are you the first to do something? Are you the only person doing something? What's different about your product, the way it works, how you came up with the idea?
Really try to find that unique differentiator that makes your story different and more important than every other story that consumer is going to be bombarded with throughout the day.
You can kind of tap into newsworthy content by looking at larger trends.
Tap into newsworthy content
I think creating newsworthy content is sometimes tough as a brand. We recognize that the pace at which the news environment moves is so fast. It can be really intimidating if you don't have the resources to turn around content in one day or even in one week.
So you can kind of tap into newsworthy content by looking at larger trends. Things like what season is it? Is it back-to-school time? Or is it Thanksgiving? The holidays? Winter? You can also look at cultural trends. What are the things that are part of societal conversation? What are people interested in? What's really top of mind?
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And if you're able to have conversations that are related to what's happening in the news, it gives you a little bit more of a longer timeline to create related content. So you can still tap into those trends without having to be looking at your watch wondering when your legal team is going to give you approval to set something live.
It helps to look for evergreen opportunities and content that continues to be relevant long after it's published.
Create sustainable content
Obviously, when you're creating a branded content program, you want to get the most for your money. You don't want to create something that's relevant for a week and then drops off the map. So to really capitalize on the investment that you're making in content, it helps to look for evergreen opportunities and content that continues to be relevant long after it's published.
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A great way to do that is to teach. If your content is showing people how to do something, or giving them history and background, going really deep on a topic and giving them a lot of background information, really sharing history or a person's experience and their life story then the content lives on for a long time. And it will continue to be relevant to the audience, whether they find it today, or a year from now, or sometimes five years from now.
Looking for those opportunities to tell a story that stays relevant is really the best way to make sure that your investment lives on.
Be open to changes
As a brand, you might set out saying I want to tell a story about our history, or I want to tell a story about our new product and how it helps people.
But you don't want to set out saying I want to find a mom, age 32 with two children who can say how our product helps people. You're really putting yourself in a box. Perhaps the best person to tell that story doesn't fit your initial idea. So you want to have a guiding principle of perhaps how you'd like that story to turn out, but you also need to be open to the possibility that if you're ignoring the story as it unfolds, you're probably missing out on a much better story.
So understand your guiding principle but be open to the details changing. That gives you the best chance to get the most natural version of that story and that's the version that's really going to sit with your audience and stay in their head.
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ahja…. good to read.A great way to do that is to teach. If your content is showing people how to do something, or giving them history and background, going really deep on a topic and giving them a lot of background information, really sharing history or a person's experience and their life story then the content lives on for a long time.

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If you've become reliant on anti-anxiety medication to keep your symptoms at bay and allow you to live a functional and satisfying life, a positive pregnancy test can hit you like a ton of bricks. From health concerns and physical changes to financial worries, there are few women who become less anxious during pregnancy; on the other hand, you may be concerned that the medication you're taking will impact your child's development or even harm his or her health. Is it safe for you to continue using anti-anxiety medication while pregnant or should you quit cold turkey? Read on to learn more about the use of anti-anxiety medication during pregnancy and how you can decide on the healthiest path for both you and your unborn child.
Is anti-anxiety medication harmful to a developing fetus?
Because it's highly unethical to perform laboratory tests on either pregnant women or growing babies, there's not much solid data on the effect of certain medications (including antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications) on pregnant women. However, a combination of anecdotal data from thousands of pregnant women and laboratory testing on other gestating mammals (like rats) has given researchers and doctors some tools to determine the impact of anti-anxiety drugs on a pregnant patient.
The unfortunate news is that researchers have found some connection between the use of certain drugs that alter the brain chemistry (like Prozac) and an increased risk of certain birth defects. This risk may also be present in certain anti-anxiety drugs that affect the brain in a similar manner and are able to cross the blood barrier into the placenta. However, even with this increased risk due to anti-anxiety medication use, your overall risk of birth defects (absent other risk factors) should be quite low. For example, if a certain birth defect is present in one of every 1,000 live births, doubling or even tripling this risk by using anti-anxiety meds will still give your child a less than 1 percent chance of winding up with this defect.
How can you decide whether or not taking anti-anxiety medication during pregnancy is a good idea?
As with just about anything else you ingest or do during pregnancy, the answer involves a balancing act. If your anxiety symptoms are relatively mild and you're already in a high-risk group that will require more careful monitoring of your pregnancy, you may want to try to wean yourself off this medication while you're pregnant. On the other hand, if you require medication to function or hold down a job and are otherwise in good health, the potential harm from stopping your medication regimen is likely much greater than the risk to your fetus.
For more information, contact local professionals like Vita Center For Women LLC.


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Today has seen the second scrubbed launch attempt for NOAA's JPSS-1 Earth environmental observer. Tuesday's early-morning attempt was scrubbed moments after coming out of the T-minus 4 minutes hold due to an anomalous voltage reading during first stage engine slew checks, along with boats in the offshore exclusion area. Today, upper level winds (in excess of 100 knots) were above acceptable limits. ULA is working a 24-hour turnaround but from the main loop discussion leading up to the second scrub it sounds like the upper level winds will continue to be out of limits for at least the next 48 hours.


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The Strategic Spending Review for Scotland starts today with a statement from Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Economic Growth, John Swinney. The announcement comes at the same time as the detailed 2012-13 budget process starts.
Both the Strategic Spending Review and the Budget are vital for Scotland, which has chosen a different path to that followed by the Westminster government. Where at Westminster the focus is on reducing public spending, in Scotland the government is seeking to guide the country out of recession through investment. The Strategic Spending Review will set the framework for spending up to the next Scottish election.
What we have is, effectively, a control in an experiment on whether investment or cuts are the best way out of a recession. It is, however, difficult to identify which areas of investment will be sustained in the Strategic Spending Review. While capital investment has been included in a Cabinet portfolio for the first time it is revenue spending that will be vital to determining Scotland's future.
The watchword for the past year has been prevention. The Christie Commission, Independent Budget Review and Scottish Parliament Finance Committee have all published reports that have suggested that prevention must be at the heart of all public services.
By preventing need arising we can both increase people's quality of life and reduce expenditure on public services. It is the win-win that can help Scotland out of the recession.
The Strategic Spending Review will allow us to see how much of a priority prevention will be for government in the coming Parliamentary term. Of course, prevention is, in itself a complex concept. There is very substantial opportunity to make huge improvements to people's lives through intervention during the early years of childhood. But we can also make massive improvements in the lives of adults through intervening to prevent future need.
These are different things, both are of great value, but the debate about prevention is muddled by the subtle differences. We must act now to make sure that our ageing population continues to be an asset. By taking preventative approaches we will enable ourselves to grow older in a way that both maintains well being and avoids major medical interventions. That's good for people and good for the budget.
It's important that helping us to age well doesn't distract from the important task of breaking cycles of intergenerational poverty. But it's also important not to see the two outcomes in competition. Getting it right for Scotland's people will mean more effective preventative approaches in the early years of life and for our ageing population. Indeed it will require early intervention to prevent re-offending, to encourage life-long learning and to limit welfare dependency.
The aim for the Strategic Spending Review should be to diminish acute spending wherever it occurs. The best way to achieve that is to place prevention in all its forms at the heart of public service provision.
What we hope Mr Swinney will do today is to seek new ways to shift the balance of care towards prevention. It's the ultimate win-win, at a time when we need to create a better future for all Scotland's people.
Posted by Peter McColl, Public Affairs Manager for Scotland at 00:00
Wednesday, 21 September 2011.
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As MPs returned from their summer break, a debate on care and services for older people took place in the Westminster Hall on Tuesday 6 September. Tracey Crouch MP for Chatham and Aylesford began proceedings with a strongly saying that she believed that people want to live in their own home and community for as long as they can physically do so, and that the delivery of certain services can prevent people from entering residential care, which benefits both them and the state.
She expressed support for the campaign to appoint an Older People's Minister, but understood the Government's opposition to create another Ministerial post. She therefore suggested two options that Government might find easier to accept. The first was to establish a Cabinet Committee to look at older peoples' issues and the second to introduce a new test within regulatory impact assessments that would examine the effect of proposals on the over-65s. Tracey Crouch supported the Dilnot Committee report and recommendations and called for a swift implementation and not a lengthy delay. She called for health checks for those in their 50s and 60s and highlighted the lack of good quality, affordable homes for those able and willing to remain independent. She talked of the problem of isolation and told the tale of how WRVS had improved an older persons quality of life by something as simple as changing a light bulb.
Jack Dromey the Labour MP for Birmingham, Erdington said that successive Governments had failed to address the growing crisis in social care. He said that the Government's cuts were going to deep, too quickly, and were having a damaging impact on local authorities' ability to deliver services and gave examples of what was happening in his constituency. He too offered his support for Dilnot. He added that WRVS has done excellent work in the field, and had said rightly that the Government must both address the adequacy of the funding that they have made available and ensure that it is wisely spent and properly monitored.
Anne Marie Morris whose constituency was in a region of the country with the highest population of older people, raised the issue of quality in residential homes and in domiciliary care.
Margot James said that the increase in local authority budgets for adult and social care had been minimal compared with the increase in many other local authority budgets, particularly that for children and younger people's services. With adult and social care, the starting base is already very low, which is one of the problems and is why local authorities are struggling so much.
Tony Baldry was not confident about who had a grip on domiciliary care and trying to ensure that there are sufficient providers of day care for those who need it. If the thorny issue of delayed discharge was to be addressed, more thought was needed on how to ensure that there are sufficient places in the nursing home and residential care sector. Enhancing the professionalism of care staff and also their reputation and status was key for success.
Gareth Johnson said that Care and services for older people are of increasing importance, and agreed with the sentiments expressed about how to deal with the issue sooner rather than later. He was surprised how easy it was in England to close care homes and the lack of security of tenure for residents.
In summing up for the opposition, Emily Thornberry spoke of the terrible consequences of the massive spending cuts are becoming clearer, in particular on underfunding in the social care system, which was getting to breaking point. She had already shared with the Minister her research on the effect of the cuts on local authorities and on adult social care and she was undertaking further research which she would send to him in due course.
Her preliminary findings showed £1.3 billion in real-terms cuts in local authority spending on social care in both 2010-11 and 2011-12. For the oldest and most vulnerable, the picture showed real-terms spending on social care for the over-65s lower than in 2009-10 by £60 million in 2010-11 and £1.3 billion in 2011-12. The Opposition made it clear that it will work with the Government to find a solution to long-term funding of care based on the Dilnot recommendations. Funding was not the only matter dealt with in the recommendations of Dilnot and the Law Commission. They included recommendations to improve available information, to support carers, and to enable portability of care. She wanted to ensure that that happens, and quickly and pressed the Minister to commit to legislation during the next session of Parliament to deal with the Dilnot recommendations.
Paul Burstow responded on behalf of the Government. He stated the coalition's commitment to see health and social care provided in ways that achieve better outcomes and deliver more personalised services. A sea change was required in the nature of the working relationships at local level, so that closer relationships between local authorities and the NHS become the norm.
He stressed that NHS funding that goes directly to local authorities for measures that support social care and benefit health will rise to £1 billion per year by 2014-2015. This year, £650 million had been allocated to PCTs and transferred to local authorities to invest in social care services. He appreciated the support from all parties about the Dilnot inquiry and the appetite to get on with action. He said that he would ensure that that appetite was well understood across Government. The Dilnot report submitted in July made an excellent contribution to providing a framework around a wider reform of social care for the future. The Government would soon set out a further process of consultation not only about the details of implementing the Dilnot inquiry
In closing he commended the contribution made by the voluntary sector and charities, in particular the role that such organisations can and do play in tackling social isolation including practical, low-level help—for example, helping to change a light bulb, which sometimes seemed to take forever.
On the same day the Health and Social Care Bill was being debated and tabled amendments being voted on. By the end of the week the Bill had been dispatched to the House of Lords for further scrutiny.
Penny Mordaunt MP for Portsmouth North tabled two interesting written Parliamentary Questions during the week. The first was to ask what role the Minister proposes for clinical audits in assisting commissioning bodies to (a) identify the reasons for emergency readmissions of patients aged over 65 years of age and (b) evaluate the effectiveness of post-discharge planning. This is something that WRVS called for in its open letter to Paul Burstow in July. The second question asked what role the Minister proposes for befriending services in the NHS.
In answering the first question Simon Burns stated that NHS service organisations should use appropriate indicators to monitor and seek to improve the quality of the care which they are commissioning or providing.
Available indicators include various measures of the rates of emergency readmission following specific procedures, and an indicator of the proportion of older people who were still at home 91 days after discharge from hospital into rehabilitation, services. Where these high-level indicators show cause for concern, more detailed local clinical audit may be helpful in identifying the possible underlying causes. In line with the Government's commitment to greater transparency in the information available on the outcomes of patient care, providers are encouraged to share appropriate data from clinical audit with their commissioners.
In responding to the second question, Paul Burstow said that people supported by community care services can often feel socially isolated and lonely. Befriending services provide people in this situation with opportunities for social interaction and a sense of being part of a community. These services can be particularly helpful for people recovering from a mental illness, older people, people on the autistic spectrum, and those accessing palliative care.
He continued that the Government's goal is to give local communities a much greater say in determining local arrangements for assisting and supporting NHS patients. The new local Healthwatch will make its own decisions about what is needed locally-whether and how to make the best use of local people to respond to the needs of patients both in hospitals and in community settings. This builds on the existing powers of local authorities and local health bodies to commission both advocacy and befriending services.
In another linked question Simon Kirby MP asked what guidance the Department of Health provides to local authorities on steps to reduce isolation, loneliness and fear amongst people in later life. The Ministers response is awaited and will be covered here in a future Westminster Eye.
On 14 September the Health Select Committee issued a call for written evidence for its inquiry into social care. The deadline for submitting written evidence is noon on Wednesday 26 October 2011. The purpose of this inquiry is to consider the issues facing the government as it prepares its Social Care White Paper, and make recommendations for consideration by the Government before the White Paper is published. The inquiry will focus on adult social care, particularly of those people of 65 years of age and older. The Committee will consider, amongst other issues:
On 15 September the Government announced the creation of a Panel of Experts to help the Government's discussions on how to improve the care system in England. The Caring for Our Future engagement exercise aims to pinpoint the priorities that this Government needs to focus on to inform its formal plans to improve the care system. This follows on from the report on Commission on Funding of Care and Support. It aims to use the report as the basis for engagement as a key part of a wider care and support reform agenda. To assist with this, the Department of Health has asked key leaders from the care and support community to help it to lead discussions on six broad themes:
Parliament is now in recess and returns in early October.
Posted by Steve Smith, Public Affairs Officer at 09:00
Tuesday, 20 September 2011.
Efficiency savings. Austerity measures. Cuts. Call them what you will, the economic changes being made by the Westminster Government are bound to have an impact on people who rely on services provided by (or through) the state.
Over recent months, the Bevan Foundation has considered the potential impacts on (amongst other things) children, on housing waiting lists and legal aid. But what will the impact be on older people, in Wales and beyond?
Today, the older people's charity WRVS (in conjunction with the research consultancy SQW) have released a report, Public spending cutbacks and impacts on older people, looking at impact on older people of fiscal consolidation measures made in Sweden and Canada – two countries that have been cited as success stories by advocates of tough public spending cuts in Britain.
The headline finding is that older people suffer disproportionately from cuts, and that ultimately the burden on health services is increased. This is unambiguously supported by the Swedish and Canadian experiences:
Disturbing though these figures are, they also have the potential to be instructive about how best to approach the planning of services for Wales to ensure that savings can be made without having a detrimental impact on service users. Others will have their own suggestions for what the Welsh Government could do to mitigate the impact of funding cuts – but here are a few suggestions.
If preventative services are embraced, not only do people benefit, but the state can also achieve real savings through reduced hospital admissions and a reduced burden on formal social services. This was recognised by the Pearson Review of social services in Wales, which characterised any retreat into core services by local authorities as "short sighted" and "unsustainable". Support for preventative care has also come from the Social Services Improvement Agency, from BMA Cymru and from The King's Fund. Making prevention the central component of the proposed Social Services Bill could therefore improve wellbeing and also keep hospital admission rates to a minimum.
Furthermore any moves to Common Eligibility Criteria for Welsh social services could set the threshold for care at Low, so that local authorities necessarily have to embrace the prevention agenda.
The clear message to government – at Westminster, at Cardiff Bay and elsewhere – is that cuts to preventative services could be one of the biggest false economies ever made if we truly want to make Britain a great place to grow old.
This article originally appeared at the Bevan Foundation's 'blog: http://thisismytruth.org
Posted by Ed Bridges, WRVS Public Affairs Manager for Wales at 10:30
Tuesday, 06 September 2011.
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Kotegaeshi is a jointlock. There are many joint locking or holding techniques in aikido, including manipulations of wrist, elbow, shoulder, spine, and others. Different people interpret this class of techniques differently, but essentially there are about three ideas on joint techniques:
- Use massive force against an anatomical weakness to break a joint
- Use controlled force to create pain sufficient to control the opponent
- Use a lock to limit uke's motion and damp out his potential for harm
You can probably tell from my previous post on pain control that I subscribe to this third idea. Joint locks, like kotegaeshi, when used to restrict an attacker's range of motion, control his balance, and limit his potential to hurt you, can be very effective. Potentially much more effective than joint breaking techniques or pain control techniques.
In aikido we talk a lot about shikaku, the dead angle. This is a place where tori is relatively safe because it is difficult for uke to bring weapons (natural or otherwise) to bear. Typically we say shikaku is behind the arm to the outside of the body. Jointlocks can be used to expand the space that you can call shikaku. For instance, with kotegaeshi held (but not cranked), shikaku often extends well in front of the arm.
A while back I wrote about there being several ideas about how kuzushi (offbalance) works. Some folks say that uke is always offbalance and tori has to learn how to use that offbalance. It's not hard to imagine uke, in his natural motion, oscillating up and down, left and right, forward and back, in sort of chaotic spirals. Now, take an arm and hold it at the end of its range of motion in kotegaeshi. How do uke's oscillations change? Well, for one thing they are damped out on one side. If something is oscillating and is damped on one side then it is, by definition, asymmetric, or offbalance. Thus, tori can use jointlocks to maintain offbalances rather than to try to bust uke with them.
Play especially with the second kotegaeshi exercise (taking up the slack) that I posted the other day and let me know what you think of it.


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FC: Westward Expansion By Colin Cottingham
2: Indian Removal | During Westward Expansion in the 1830s, large groups of Indians still lived in the eastern part of the United States. Because the land in the west was dry and seemed unsuitable for farming, few white Americans wanted to live there. They had an idea of moving the American Indians out of their land and to the west of the Mississippi River. Andrew Jackson, the president during this time, supported this idea. This caused future problems for many Indians including The Trail of Tears.
3: Factory System In 1814, a man by the name of Francis Lowell started a textile plant. All the stages of making cloth were done in the same place for the first time. Francis's mill started the factory system, a system bringing manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency. | Francis Cabot Lowell
4: Interchangeable Parts During the time of the Industrial Revolution, an inventor by the name of Eli Whitney had a wonderful idea. His idea was interchangeable parts. These were identical machine parts that could be put together to make a complete product. This invention was a massive improvement to the old way of creating products. This way things could be made a lot quicker, with less skilled-labor, and repairing was easier. | interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney
6: River Travel | River travel had major advantages over traveling by horses or wagons. Usually, the ride was a lot less rough and more comfortable. Also, pioneers could load all of their items on to river barges if they were heading in the direction of the current. | River travel also had a couple of disadvantages though. First, most rivers in the eastern US flowed in the north-south direction not the east-west direction. That was a problem for expanding to the west. A second disadvantage was that traveling upstream was very difficult and slow.
7: Canals | Even though steamboats were a huge improvement in transportation, they still couldn't effectively travel between the East and the West, Business and government officials led by De Witt Clinton came up with a solution to this problem. That plan was to build canals. These used locks to rise and lower water levels to transport boats. The first one created was the Erie Canal, and it connected Albany to Buffalo. Canals helped lower the cost of shipping. They also brought prosperity to towns, and they helped unite different parts of the country.
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9: Battle of the Alamo | The Mexicans and Texans were fighting over the land in Texas. The Mexican troops came to a Texan force inside a mission called the Alamo. The Texans were defending themselves quite well, but they ended up losing. They lost some great men in this battle including Davy Crockett and William Travis. This battle gave the Texans the needed time to help win their dependence. | "The power of Santa Anna is to be met here, or in the colonies; we had better meet them here than to suffer a war of devastation to rage in our settlements," warned Travis during the fighting.
10: Natives Fight Back | During westward expansion, many Native Americans were being removed from there land. Not all Indians wanted to go peacefully to the west. Some like Black Hawk's group of the Sauk tribe fought back. Unfortunately his group had been defeated by Illinois state militia. The Seminole people succeeded a lot more than Black Hawk's tribe. They used guerrilla tactics with African Americans to fight for their land. Finally in 1842, the government gave up and gave the Seminole people some land in Florida. | Black Hawk, Sauk Leader
11: Trail of Tears | After the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830, the American Indians had to move west of the Mississippi River. Their journey was hundreds of miles long, and many people died along the way from hunger, cold, or disease. This movement was then known as the Trail of Tears because it was a very sad journey.
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13: Census | The first US census, official count of the population, was in 1790. This showed that the population was approximately four million, and most of the people lived east of the Appalachian Mountains and close to the coast. Thirty years later in 1820, there was another census. This revealed that the population of the US more than doubled to about ten million, and about two million people were then living in the west.
14: Andrew Jackson | Andrew Jackson, born on March 15, 1767, was one of this country's greatest presidents. He strongly believed in supporting the union, and he didn't think that the wealthy people should have all the power. Andrew also supported the removal of Indians, and he had the Indian Removal Act be passed by Congress. He is also on the twenty dollar bill.
16: Industrial Revolution | In the middle of the eighteenth century, the way products were being made was changing. These changes started in Great Britain. British inventors came up with machines that would help make cloth, and they used hydro power to make them work. When these ideas got to the US, they started in New England. Because there wasn't that much fertile land there, people stopped working on farms and worked in factories. There were many rivers and streams in this area so it was a good place for factories. There were also a lot of new technologies during this time such as interchangeable parts or the cotton gin.
17: Panic of 1837 | Martin Van Buren | After Martin Van Buren became President, the US went in to a major economic depression. The depression started out with the Panic of 1837. Land values dropped, investments declined, and banks failed. Businesses started to close, and hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs.
19: Lacrosse | Lacrosse was a game played by Native Americans for fun. Each team of about 300 people had their goal that was made with two wooden posts. Everyone had a stick with nets on the end of them, and these were used to pass a ball between teammates. The objective of the game was to pass the ball between the opponents goal posts. The first team that did that 100 times was the victor.
20: Jeans | Levi Strauss, a dry goods merchant from San Francisco, and Jacob Davis, a Nevada tailor, created jeans. These were denim pants reinforced with small copper rivets. They are known for their durability and quality. That explains why their ads were aimed at miners and farmers. | thats hot
22: Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney is the man responsible for making this machine, The cotton gin made cotton making a lot easier. Before this invention was created, farming cotton required hundreds of hours of labor to separate the cottonseed from the cotton fiber. The cotton gin could make up about fifty pounds of cleaned cotton a day, This invention made cotton a profitable product in the southern US. | Eli Whitney
23: Steamboat | Steam engines were being used in the 1780s and1790s to power small boats. However, none of these boats were strong enough to withstand rough waters and wind in big rivers and open bodies of water. In 1802, Robert Fulton was hired to design a steam boat that could navigate these waters and carry cargo. In 1807, Clermont, his boat, was finished. It made the trip from New York to Albany. Steamboats made transporting goods and passengers better. Shipping goods was faster and easier this way. Lastly, the steamboat helped cities grow. | Robert Fulton
24: Conclusion | Cause and Effect: Because the Americans expanded to the West, we have many changes. We own the Louisiana Territory, which is now many middle states. The West is civilized in the United States. We also have the land in Texas because of the Battle of the Alamo. Lastly, many Indians died from the Trail of Tears and battles for land ownership. Change and Continuity: Many people did not benefit from Westward Expansion. American Indians died and lost their land because of this. That isn't fair. Also, Mexicans did not benefit because they lost Texas to the Americans when they were claiming independence.
25: Using the Past: The past has many similarities to the present. We still our coming up with new ideas for future technologies. Before, they came up with the steam boat, and now we are coming up with new cars. We still have battles and wars today. Before, it was for independence and land. Now, we are having a war in Iraq. During Westward Expansion, we had Presidents, and we still have them today. Turning Points: Many decisions and actions significantly transformed people's lives during Westward Expansion. Because Americans wanted to move west, many settlers got cheap land to settle on. Because of this, Indians lost their land and many died. Because Texans wanted to fight for their independence, Davy Crockett and other men lost their loves. Because Robert Fulton came up with a good steamboat, it was easier for settlers to move to the West.
26: Through Their Eyes: During Westward Expansion, settlers saw the West as a new place to civilize and become their homes. Leaders saw this land as something they needed to make them feel like their country would have more power if they had it. American Indians saw the land as everyone's land, and they thought it should be shared not owned.
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Love the game btw.
Just wanted to post a suggestion that i think would improve the Farming skill. My idea is, (if you have the farming skill) upon level up (or gaining more normal land claims) you receive a few special land claims (possibly called crop claims) which protect your crops from being harvested and blocks from placed or being broken. However buildings built on these claims will not give any skill bonuses.
Now ideally this would only "protect" the top layer of the claimed chunk, thus protecting the crops but still allowing mining below, but i imagine this might be a little more difficult to code given the current set up.
As you can imagine this happened after someone stole my crops (without the gathering skill) which i was unable to claim. This was on a small server and basically made the crop that was stolen extinct. As the only proper farmer providing food for everyone on the server this was kinda a big deal (days 2 btw). Think Camas, Beans etc.
On another note, i think the late game could be fleshed out a bit better (with tables and buildings requiring tier 4 building materials for the laser etc.) and perhaps do something to reduce the impact of the "tailings hiding simulator" (even just increasing the stack sizes in stockpiles).
Storage filters, and input output options would be a drastic improvement also.
In general i love the game, and have enjoyed nearly 600 hours for a reasonable priced early access game, much appreciated.
Keep up the good work.


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Jon Stahl, Communications Director | In the past few days, we've hosted a pair of events with our friends at Media Impact Funders, the national network of funders working on media and technology issues. In different ways, both touched on the power of communications — both medium and message — to drive forward the social change issues that animate philanthropy. more »


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Our staff includes experienced, board-registered technologists who are ready to assist with all of your imaging needs.
Services offered:
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Mammography is a specific type of breast imaging that uses low-dose x-rays to detect breast cancer before women experience symptoms, which is when it is most treatable.
It is our desire to help women and save lives by using gold standard mammography. Our technologists are highly qualified and ready to serve you in the most comfortable and timely manner possible. Women who want or need a screening mammogram can call our Central Scheduling department at 918-856-5789, or your doctor's office can schedule. Most medical insurances pay for a yearly mammogram, but if you have any insurance questions, please call your insurance company.
The St. John Sapulpa mammography department is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Our general X-ray is equipped with 2 exam rooms, which provides for quicker service. Our staff consists of ARRT Registered Technologists who are highly qualified to perform diagnostic x-rays.
We gladly accept any walk-in patient 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Computed Tomography (C.T.) is a highly valuable diagnostic test that uses special x-ray equipment to detect a wide range of diseases and conditions. C.T. scans are fast, painless and highly accurate. During a C.T. scan a thin x-ray beam rotates around the patient generating 3-D images of the internal structures.
Our outpatient C.T. services are available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
We also accept same-day appointments for added convenience.
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Our M.R.I. is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The staff technologist is nationally registered and certified in M.R.I. through ARRT to ensure quality exams are performed.
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Ultrasound uses sound waves to examine internal body structures to detect abnormalities without the usage of radiation. Ultrasound is used in many different aspects such as: general ultrasound, vascular, OB, gynecology, soft tissue, and echocardiograms.
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Pioneer Electronics announced their flagship SE-MJ591 audiophile headphone for critical listening, commemorating over 50 years of headphone development. It is designed for highly accurate sound reproduction across the entire spectrum, enabled in part by newly designed 40mm drivers and an on-ear design that naturally reduces disruptive external sounds. The SE-MJ591 features high-quality construction with metal components and ultra-soft ear pads and headband for the ultimate comfort during longer listening periods. The headphones are intended to match the sound quality of high-end audio systems, making them the ideal accessory for serious listeners looking for high-end audio performance, both at home and on-the-go.
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A membership is a very economical way to enjoy all that Great Guns has to offer. Members get access to Great Guns rifle, pistol and archery ranges as well as receiving reduced rates on clay targets, ammunition and upland hunting. Membership includes all immediate family members under the age of 18 in the household. Memberships cost $15 per month plus a $75 initiation fee.
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From the special Westchester issue: Strategic Capital could have spent its money anywhere. But executives at the firm, the American arm of a Chinese state-owned company, bet on Yonkers — investing in a partially completed waterfront site.
The company — the real estate investment arm of China Construction America, one of the world's biggest construction and real estate giants — will invest $270 million over three years on the once-stalled 16-acre mixed-use development called Hudson Park, which sits between the Hudson River and the Yonkers Metro-North station. A 213-unit residential tower slated to open in early 2018 will be the final touch on the project.[more]


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At the moment I would happily order these lovely things from Dorothy Perkins..Not that my shopping ban would allow it (15 days to go!)
|001: polka dot sandals, £25
|002: pink floral prom dress, £39.50
002: The pink floral dress would be a fantastic addition to my summer wardrobe, I guess when the ban is over I will look to purchase a few new things which are the correct size, although I am working my way through altering things where I can.
Have little else to report really; I've spent most of my day on the phone (mostly on hold) to try and sort out numerous issues. Off to Rangers this evening, hoping that the rain stops as we are supposed to be going out for a walk. but it's been raining for most of the afternoon.


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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reportedly begun tour of states in the South South zone to mobilise support for the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government and the party ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The Zonal Publicity Secretary of the APC, Martins Mukoro said the tour would also afford it to reconcile all aggrieved members in the various state chapters to enhance the party's unity for 2019.
The party said the visits would be led by its National Vice-Chairman (Southsouth), Hilliard Eta, to Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Edo states.
The tour would commence this week and expected to end September 30.
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The year 2014 is heading ahead with aggressive investments and M&A activities in the tech space. Globally, during the first half only over USD 7.5 billion has been invested in 50 of the largest tech financings. Wherein Tiger Global emerged as the top investor in the deals, Sequoia Capital got noticed due to the number of large financings it participated in.
Global scenario
In U.S., Sequoia Capital had established U.S. Scout Seed Fund 2013 last February. Also, in August last year, it established the US venture fund XIV (USD 550 million) and the China Fund (USD 350 million).
The major investment deals include AirBnB (USD 500M, Series C), SunRun (USD 150M, Series E), Okta (USD 75M, Series E), Coupang (USD 100M, Series C) and many more.
It has seen 6 exits so far in 2014 with 1 IPO, 4 acquisitions, and 1 asset sale. This includes, MobileIron, an enterprise mobile device management company; Kontera Technologies, a content management platform and WhatsApp which was acquired by Facebook in February for USD 19 billion.
The graph below shows the scattered plot for Sequoia Capital's exits over time for disclosed valuations:
Investment activities in Asia
If talked about Asia, then Sequoia Capital has been found to increase its interest there, over the last two years. Although, till date Israel was getting the most attention, now India is expected to take the major portion of the firm's investment in Asia. Recently, it also introduced its USD 530 million India focus fund, to invest in sectors like health care, consumer and technology wherein Mobile Software & Services companies made up 33% of its's Asian tech investments.
Below is the Geography heat map for Asia-The size of the box represents the number of deals and the darkness of the blue represents total funding.
As per a CB Insights study, in year 2013, Sequoia Capital's tech investments in Asia saw 37% YoY rise. From 2012-2013 India and China made up a combined 74% of deals out of Asia versus 83% in 2010-2011, while Israel grew from 15% to 20% deal share in the same time period.
This includes deals such as USD 50 M Series D funding in China's Chukong Technologies, USD 37 million Series D in India based Zomato and USD 57 million Series E in Just Dial.
Also, it was seen that the firm's focus has been reduced in the eCommerce space. Year 2014, till date, has marked only the follow-on investments in companies such as fashionandyou, Jiuxian and Meituan.
Well, considering the way eCommerce companies like Flipkart are raising funds, and number of technology startups emerging everyday, where Sequoia Capital would lay its bet, would be worth watching.


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Session 1: June 10 - June 14
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Session 3: June 24 - June 26 (3 days)
Mini Camp now has two options to choose from:
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Purchase Day Camp will be offering three (3) individual one (1) week Mini Camp Sessions for pre-school children as well as children entering kindergarten in the fall of 2019.
Participants must be three years old by September 1, 2019 and toilet trained. The sessions are open to children who will be attending Purchase Day Camp AND those who have made other plans. Supervision will be provided by Purchase Day Camp TEAM Members.
Fun Facts:
- Campers will have "Free Swim" each day in the umbrella fountain pool.
- Special Theme Days and Activities are scheduled each session.
- Free Purchase Day Camp T-Shirt with each camper enrollment.
- Snack and juice will be provided each day.
- Lunches must be sent in from home and will be refrigerated at Camp.
- Freeze pops will be provided each day as a lunch dessert.
- Complimentary Pizza Lunch for everyone on Friday of each session!
- No need to pack a towel - we provide them!
Sample Schedule:
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- All Campers will be in co-ed groups.
- Campers are enrolled on a first-come first served basis. This is a limited enrollment program.
- Supervision will be provided with a minimum of 1 to 4 Counselor to Camper ratio.
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I've heard a lot of "ugh another holiday" in regards to Valentine's Day lately. I get it, our house still has a lot of Christmas decorations that need to be boxed up and we're still wearing Santa pajamas to bed. But hear me out…. this year, perhaps a holiday about LOVE is one not to skip over. And you know what…. if you get Valentine's Day books and let the kids decorate the house with heart crafts, there's no rush to put them away, because really we could use a little extra love all year long.
I "love" books about love and kindness. I add a few to our collection around each Valentine's Day and we've grown quite the collection over the years. While these are great books to read and give at Valentine's Day, many of them are really just about love and kindness and perfect for all year long. These are also a lot of books that are my favorite for gifting. They make sweet books for a baby shower or new baby and also for birthday parties.
Valentine's Day Outfits for Kids
We love Valentine's Day outfits too. I have one little girl that loves red and one that loves pink, so it's pretty easy to dress for Valentine's Day.
This post was sponsored by Primary. As always all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Here's another little trick for festive holiday wear: get the kids solid pjs, tights, pants, shirts and dresses in red, green and pink: the red & green works for Christmas, the red & pink for Valentine's, the green for St Patrick's Day and then the pink for Easter. I started doing that last year with clothes from Primary.com and it really simplifies things. Plus Primary clothes are my kids favorite to wear because they are so comfortable. All of the sweet red and pink Valentine's clothes throughout the post are from Primary (even the fun socks!). Primary has a few shades of pink and plenty of red. These are clothes you can use for Valentine's Day and then every other day of the year too. Head to Primary.com to check it all out!
Now for the book list!
10 favorite Valentine's Day books for kids:
1. In My Heart (our absolute favorite right now!)
2. What the World Needs Now is Love
4. Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Love (click here for a craft to go with it)
6. Happy Valentine's Day Mouse
7. I Love You Because You're You
10. The Night Before Valentine's Day (click here for a craft to go with it)
If you're looking for a personalized book for Valentine's Day, check out this post. I hope you enjoy dressing festive and reading all about love this month!


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What to Expect?
We know that visiting a new church can be intimidating and even a little confusing, so we want to help make your experience the best it can be.
The Reservoir United Methodist Church is located about 15 minutes East on Route 28 from the roundabout in Kingston by I-87/Washington Avenue/I-487. We are just past Mountain Road on the right in Shokan, but before the Mobil station. For directions click here.
Sunday Services
After the service, we gather in the Narthex to catch up with one another. We hope you will want to stick around for a cup of coffee and some refreshments, but if you need to get going, we understand.
There is plenty of parking. We have a horseshoe type driveway that wraps around the building so make sure you enter from the far right. Drive all the way around the building and look for the Main Entrance sign hanging from the covered canopy. If you need handicap parking there are designated spaces near the Main Entrance sign.
Large Print Bibles and Hymnals
Large print Bibles and hymnals are available at Reservoir UMC. Please ask an Usher or Greeter for assistance.
Main Entrance
What Do I Wear?
What Do You Provide for My Children?
Your children are important to us! Our goal is to minister to the entire family. We provide various ministries for your children from newborn through grade 12. .
Children join us in the sanctuary for the beginning of worship and then there is Young Disciples time where the children come forward for a brief message with the Pastor which is geared just for them. After that the teachers and students head to their classrooms where they learn about Jesus through Bible stories, games, songs and crafts. If you have toddlers, we have a nursery. All children are also welcome to stay in the Sanctuary. It's entirely up to you. We want you to feel comfortable.
Do visitors have to stand up and say anything?
Am I expected to participate in the offering?
Other questions?
If there's something we missed on this list, just give us a call, or ask someone when you arrive. Our pastor is available to meet with you and answer any faith questions you may have.
Whether you're new to the area and looking for a church home, or if it's been a long time since you've attended church at all, we hope your first visit to Reservoir UMC will be meaningful. We exist to serve you and your family, and we are looking forward to meeting you personally. We hope you'll feel right at home!


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"Evan! You just spit in my ear!"
There are just some words that zip through a crowd and into your mind. I didn't know who Evan was, or why he felt the urge to spit in someone's ear, or if it was an intentionally spitting. There are some days when I get so very bored that all I can do is sit and listen to the world. I don't really know what my problem is. I spend so much time working on my brain. That sometimes I can't harness it. It sounds odd, because it is. It's something akin to working out so much that your body animates without bothering to consult the rest of you, but instead of doing anything useful, like laundry or cleaning the house, it just wanders around and around until it bumps into the wall like a penguin in a maze. (If you have played Penguin Pursuit on Lumosity.com, you know what I'm talking about.) I think I should spend a day trying to write something without using the words "just" or " really". I use these words a lot. I can't seem to make myself do anything productive. Or , at least, lucrative.


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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources (https://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/forum.php)
- Lake Malawi Mbuna (https://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/lake-malawi-mbuna/)
- - Labidochromis sp. "Hongi" (https://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/lake-malawi-mbuna/labidochromis-sp-hongi-283641/)
Labidochromis sp. "Hongi"
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Family: Cichlidae
Common Name: Hongi
Origin and Habitat: Hongi Island, Lake Malawi, Africa
Compatibility/Temperament: Mildly Aggressive
Primarily a herbivore these fish do well on a diet of good quality flake and pellets supplemented with vegetable such as zucchini, peas, lettuce and carrots.
Males attain 6" while females remain slightly smaller
Minimum Tank Suggestion
55g (4ft), although anything larger is recommended.
Water parameters
Temperature: 78 - 82°F pH: 7.8 - 8.6 Water Hardness: Hard
Found mainly on Tanzanian Side of Lake Malawi, multiple locations house these fish.
Males are very territorial and as such do not do well in smaller tanks even as juveniles.
Dominant males of this species will show a range of colors, The body is mainly blue but in dominant males, orange coloration is observed on the dorsal fins, black barring is also present, indicating the fishes mood. Pronounced black barring signifying an aggressive or dominant mood. The barring is always present although changes hue depending on the fishes mood. Dominant males can be identified with egg spots located on the dorsal and anal fins, sub dominant males will not have this although they will display the orange coloration of the dominant male.
Females stay a brown color although a trigger mechanism can cause them to change color in an instant to resembling lilac with very highlighted black barring.
Like all mbuna pr rock dwellers these fish are very good at rearranging rock structures in a tank, as such these must be well stacked or secured to prevent them causing a rock collapse which may break a pane of glass.
Ratios of this should be always at least 1 male to several (at minimum 2) females, this to prevent harassment on a single female from the dominant male.
Females are aggressive one holding a brood of fry, being a mouthbrooder, females hold the fry in their mouth for approximately 18-28 days, ideally a female should be removed from the tank once holding. Females holding can be aggressive to not only other fish but also to other females, chasing them away and fin nipping.
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Pictured below are a Dominant Male, Sub dominant Male and Female and a Young Male showing coloration.
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Costa Rica has been quite prominent in the world of soccer. Since the early 1900's, this Central American state has championed the sport and excelled at an international level. With some of the best players and some of the most spectacular match performances, Costa Rica is a favorite among many soccer enthusiasts.
The official beginning of the game in Costa Rica came with the establishment of The Federación Costarricense de Fútbol, a.k.a. Costa Rican Football Federation, in 1921. Almost a century later, the federation has not only promoted soccer in the country, but has expedited the country's involvement in soccer, both at regional and international levels.
The Costa Rican Football Federation is currently responsible for looking over all the independent clubs and the national team of Costa Rica. It bagged an affiliation with FIFA in 1927 and with CONCACAF in 1962. Three major league divisions operate under this body. The premier league, UNAFUT, currently has a line-up of twelve teams. Out of these, Club Sport Herediano, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense and Deportivo Saprissa rank among the best teams, not just in the league but in the country. The secondary league, LIASCE, has eighteen teams which have been divided into two groups for the 2013-2014 season. This league is often used as a stepping stone for teams that aim for a promotion into the primary league. The third league, LINAFA, has sixty four teams for this season.
While there is an abundance of association clubs in Costa Rica, it is the men's national team which has made international headlines. Fondly referred to as La Sele or Ticos, the Costa Rican National Team is fast becoming one of the most promising teams globally. They have appeared in a total of four world cups; in 1990, 2002, 2006 and 2014.
Over its run, the national soccer team has oscillated widely on the FIFA Ranking scale. In 1996, they ranked at their personal lowest, ninety six and in 2003, they had a personal best placement at seventeen. As of March 2014, the team ranks thirty-fourth in the world, in February 2014, it ranked at thirty-five. With its first appearance at the international scene in 1930, the 1990 FIFA World Cup was by far one of the most successful years for the team as they qualified to the Round of 16s and ended up at the thirteenth position. In 2014, they came in as a strong second in the regional qualifiers for the 2014 tournament, and their rank promotion over the span of a mere month made the team a strong contender.
One of the most celebrated soccer players hailing from Costa Rica, Jorge Luis Pinto returned in 2011 to coach and manage the national football team. Making their fourth appearance at the FIFA World Cup, under the guidance of Pinto, the National team is much more cohesive than before. Qualifying at number two in the CONCACAF Hex, the odds appear to be in Costa Rica's favor for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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Several years ago my husband and I cut our monthly expenses in half and somewhat randomly set a grocery budget of $400 a month for the two of us based on what we were spending.
Now we've grown to a family of four and REDUCED our budget to just grocery budget of $330 a month.
I've learned over the years that guessing and assuming when it comes to the budget won't work. Coming up with a number for a frugal grocery budget cannot be random. In fact, it must be strategic!
Here's why: numbers don't lie. Your income is a certain number. Your monthly bills are a certain number. The cost of groceries based on where you live and the food you like to eat are certain numbers.
You can't ignore these factors and just hope you can eat food for the month. Heavens no! You must take into account several factors before working with a frugal grocery budget. Don't worry though – I'm here to walk you through it!
Why Make a Frugal Grocery Budget
Before I jump in, I want to offer a good reason to make a frugal grocery budget in the first place: to save money.
What you do with the money you save is entirely up to you. Our "one day" dream was to buy a house with cash, and you know what? We did it!
Maybe your dream is to pay for your kids college so they don't have student loans. Or save up for a new-to-you car. Or to build the emergency fund in case the breadwinner loses their job.
Whatever the reason, the biggest reason to make a frugal grocery budget is to save money. The secondary reason is because food doesn't have to cost so much!
When your eyes are set on the bigger prize, you'll get creative and think of ways to get more out of your grocery budget and the food you buy with it. You'll soon realize that you can eat VERY well for not a lot of money – but it's all about being strategic!
I've shared the exact strategies I've learned from the years of working within a frugal grocery budget in Grocery Budget Bootcamp. However, I want to share the basics of how to make a frugal grocery budget here because I believe it's absolutely vital to ever feeling unstuck from the hamster wheel of real food on a budget.
So here we go!
How to Make a Frugal Grocery Budget
1. Commit
You absolutely, cannot, in any way shape or form, create a frugal grocery budget NOR work within a budget if you're dead set against it. It simply will not work.
So mentally prepare yourself first. Commit to make a grocery budget – no if's, and's or but's allowed. There will be a cap on your spending, and if you reach the bottom of the money jar before the month is over, you're going to have to learn to make do with what you have.
But take heart – eating well with only your pantry at hand is not an impossible task. We once went 33 days without spending any money at all.
Husbands and wives need to be on the same page with the grocery budget as well. A sit down with the family to explain why it's important to have a grocery budget, and how it will allow you to achieve your greater money goals together and stop living paycheck to paycheck.
Soup nights, leftovers and meat-less meals go over much easier to manage when the family knows the reasoning behind them.
2. Add Up Your Current Spending
This step takes a little bit more time. To figure out what you SHOULD spend on groceries, you need to figure out what you ALREADY spend on groceries.
For the next month, keep every single receipt you spend on food, including dining out. We're not going to account for that in the final budget tally, but seeing how much you spend eating outside the home is very insightful while in the budgeting process.
Now be careful – you might be tempted to cheat. A tall cup of coffee from Starbucks or a bag of popcorn while shopping at Target seem harmless, but it's still food and it still counts!
At the end of the month, add up all the receipts for a grand total. This total is your starting point. From here on out, your first goal is not spending more than that on groceries. Your second goal is to lower your spending.
3. Start Cutting Back
This is the bulk of the process and it doesn't happen overnight, so be prepared for the long haul.
There are lots of ways to reduce your grocery spending, with cooking from scratch, buying in bulk and using coupons and rebate apps (although I personally don't use coupons anymore). But here are some "out of the box" ways you can cut your spending too:
- categorize your spending according to the foods you bought and eliminate anything that didn't fall into a major food group
- stop buying food when you're doing other things (i.e. a bag of popcorn while browsing Target, coffee from Starbucks while running errands)
- conduct a pantry inventory (and fridge and freezer inventory) so you can see how much food you ALREADY have before you go shopping again
- avoid food waste
- stretch cuts of meat into more meals
- keep your pantry stocked with real foods so you're not tempted to buy junk or eat out
- start a price book (because you can save HUNDREDS of dollars a year)
- focus on reducing one food group, like coffee, cheese, milk, dairy, vegetables or meat
- substitute expensive items for things that cost less
4. Refine the Process
This is where the rubber meets the road. You want to save money? Then do it.
Make the hard decisions. Skip the wants. Eat leftovers AGAIN and purposely have beans and rice for dinner. Or go extreme and spend just $50 a week on groceries.
Hold yourself accountable. Don't make excuses and just keep trying.
There's no way you can completely overhaul your kitchen and eating habits overnight. If you want the changes to be successful, they must be done in baby steps and slowly over time.
When you've reached this point, take a look at the types of foods you spend the most money on and start there.
It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to keep up with a frugal grocery budget, but it can be done and let me tell you, it is SO worth it! There is a light at the end of the tunnel and your efforts will bear fruit. I promise! Just keep putting one foot in front of the other…
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Do governments have a legitimate role to legislate to protect citizens from the harmful effects of their own decisions to smoke or are such decisions up to the individual?
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