text: Lifestyle The failures of a self-proclaimed Tinder playboy #TinderFails are more common than you might think. Photo Credit: Flickr / Kev_Shine By MATTHEW HOGAN @MattNHLHogan March 19, 2015 11:51 PM Print Share fbShare Tweet Email I'm a man of my word and, as such, this week I'll take my ego down a notch and share some of my #TinderFails. Something you should keep in mind when using Tinder, or any dating website, for that matter: Nobody bats 1.000. Much like baseball, if you bat over .300 on Tinder – in terms of getting dates from your messages – you're one of the better players in the game. I'd consider myself a Babe Ruth on Tinder (with better abs). He had a career average of .342. I have more like a .450 average and as that average would suggest, more times than not, I don't get a hit. So let's just dive into some of these failures headfirst. We can start with the time I unknowingly Tinder-flirted with a transsexual. It all started innocently enough: She looked like a model, so obviously I swiped right and we matched. She quickly messaged me at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning, which means only one thing: Sex. After asking me for somewhat explicit details of my physique, she started asking me about my sexual habits and then told me how she wanted the rest of the night to go. It soon became clear that she was a he. I had that quintessential Ace Ventura "Einhorn is Finkle" moment (look it up on YouTube if you're unfamiliar). Now I consider myself an adventurous guy, but this was one road I was not going to travel down. To be fair, I showed her picture to a bunch of my friends and they all agreed that she was a bombshell. Let's move along. More recently, I got a message from a very attractive blonde who lived on Long Island. She was very eager to tell me about herself and what she did. She also used proper grammar, which to a journalist like myself is an incredible turn on. Seriously, I'll take grammar over fake boobs six times out of 10. She also texted me … a lot. I was OK with it because she seemed sincere and it also seemed like a sure thing. So we arranged to meet up. The day before our first date I sent her a message: "We still on for tomorrow night?" I got no response. The next day I waited until about 5 p.m. and messaged her again: "You coming in tonight?" Again, no response. A couple of days later I decided to try one more time: "What happened to you the other night?" Nothing. There's really no excuse for blowing me off like that, especially since she was the one who instigated conversation after conversation, so I can only assume she was in some terrible accident and wasn't able to send me a message. If you couldn't tell, it really got to me … even though that's something I've done to women dozens of times. Then there was the time I had my heart broken by an off-the-boat Irish beauty queen. Let's call her Emily (in honor of "Blurred Lines" smoke show Emily Ratajkowski). We went out for a couple of drinks and Emily had me laughing the whole time. We decided we would go out again. Before I continue, I told my mom that I had met a nice Irish girl and she got really excited. Mama Hogan asked me, "What does she do?" "She's a waitress at Hooters." My mom laughed and said, "No, seriously." And I responded, "No, seriously." My mom took a deep breath and just walked away. I think that was her way of telling me she disapproved, but I can never be sure. Anyway, I waited a few days before reaching out to Emily again. When I did, I asked if she would be around again the following weekend. Her response: "Who is this?" My response: "Nobody important." She clearly didn't enjoy our date as much as I did … and it hurt. Those are just three examples that stand out on a laundry list of rejections that my time in the Tinder world has brought me. As I've said in the past, I try to have as many lines in the water as possible. If a few fish don't take the bait, that's fine – eventually I'm going to catch a keeper. Until then, I'll keep fishing. By MATTHEW HOGAN @MattNHLHogan Matthew Hogan is amNY.com's dating columnist. He lives in Hell's Kitchen on a steady diet of Italian food and burgers. When he's not out drinking with friends, he's in the gym or watching hockey or both. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comments We're revamping our Comments section. Learn more and share your input.


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Total forms joint venture to build Texas chemicals and plastics plants
The French oil major Total SA said Monday that it will form a joint venture to build major chemical and plastic plant expansions along the Gulf Coast.
Total, headquartered in Paris, will own 50 percent of the partnership that will finance the multi-billion expansions of the petrochemical plants in Port Arthur and the Bayport Industrial District, southeast of Houston and near La Porte. The remaining 50 percent will be split between Nova Chemicals Corp., a Canadian company from Calgary, and Borealis , an Austrian petrochemical firm based in Vienna.
Total announced the Port Arthur expansion a year ago, but wanted to attract investment partners before moving forward. The plan is to build a $1.7 billion ethane processing plant, called a cracker, at Total's Port Arthur complex. Ethane is a component of natural gas used to make ethylene, the primary building block of most plastic. When complete, the new ethane cracker will produce up to 2.2 billion tons of ethylene a year.
The joint venture also will build a polyethylene plant at Total's Bayport location to produce 1.35 billion pounds a year of the world's most common plastic. Total isn't yet revealing cost estimates on the plastics facility.
"This almost $2 billion investment signals our determination to strengthen our presence in the United States, where we have operated for 60 years and have more than 6,000 employees," Total chief executive Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement.
These projects, like similar ones underway along the Gulf Coast, are designed to capitalize on the cheap and ample natural gas supplies produced from shale rock formations in Texas and other parts of the United States. Occidental Petroleum, Exxon Mobil, Chevron Phillips Chemical and Dow Chemical all are completing ethane cracker projects this year along the Texas Gulf Coast, including the Houston area. Exxon Mobil's and Chevron Phillips' new ethane crackers, still under construction, are both in Baytown.
As for the Total project, the planned ethane cracker will create a peak of 1,500 construction jobs. The Woodlands-based CB&I is handling the engineering and construction.
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The Congressional Budget Office today released its score for the American Health Care Act, or Trumpcare, projecting that 14 million Americans would lose their health insurance under the bill in 2018 and a total of 24 million Americans would lose health insurance by the year 2026.
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Washington State Democratic Party Chair Tina Podlodowski offered the following statement on the news:
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"My 'favorite' part of GOP plan is the huge $400 million tax break for health insurance executives, coupled with the completely odd addition of a process so states can quickly de-enroll sudden lottery winners from health care. That's six pages of the bill! This is what the GOP is focusing on in healthcare reform?
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I don't often praise or recommend white foods: white bread, white rice, white chocolate muffins, or meringues are not very high up on the list of healthy foods. Instead, nutritional therapists (including me) are forever going on about how you ought to cover all the colours of the rainbow when it comes to fruit and veg. And that is true, but there are a few exceptions and cauliflower is one of them (the others are mushrooms and white fish).
Due to its white colour, cauliflower is not quite as nutritious as its more colourful cousins from the brassica family (red, white, savoy and pointed cabbages, spring greens, broccoli, cavolo nero, romanesco, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, pak choi and Chinese leaves – also known as 'cruciferous vegetables), but it's a very healthy vegetable nonetheless. It contains lots of vitamin C, B vitamins, and vitamin K and is a great source of fibre, potassium, phosphorus and particularly boron.
Like the other brassica, cauliflower is rich in sulforaphane, an antioxidant compound known to help protect from cancer. Within minutes of eating brassica, sulforaphane enters the blood stream and travels to the liver, where it activates certain detoxification enzymes, which in turn disarm carcinogenic chemicals. But that's not all: cauliflower and the other cruciferous vegetables also contain indole-3-carbinol, another cancer-fighting compound. It speeds up the rate at which the liver breaks down and detoxifies old hormones by about 50%. A word of caution: If you have an underactive thyroid or a known iodine deficiency, make sure to always eat your cauliflower (and other members of the cabbage family) cooked. Brassica contain compounds called goitrogens, which are harmless unless eaten in vast amounts and unless you have thyroid issues. Cooking inactivates them.
Although cauliflower is available year round, local cauliflower is in season right now, so it's a great time to buy it. It'll be super-fresh and affordable. You'll get the best price on farmers markets or the greengrocers. Note though, that because cruciferous vegetables are susceptible to pests, they are often heavily treated with pesticides. (The EU is banning more and more of those, but that won't concern us for very much longer.) So, if you can afford to, buy organic cauliflower. If you can't, soak the whole cauliflower in the sink in clear water with a splash of white vinegar for a while, then lift out to dry before storing it in the fridge, stalk side down.
If you saw Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's programme "War on Waste" last week (still on the BBC iPlayer) you will already know that the colour of cauliflower has no impact on its taste. It can sometimes come out in a yellow tinge, which is apparently a reason for supermarkets to reject it, leading to entire crops having to be destroyed. Normally, the cauliflower's large leaves protect it from the sun. If it has had some light exposure, it can turn green or slightly purple, but again: this does not impact flavour at all. Just make sure that when you buy it, it hasn't got any grey/dirty looking patches, as that's a sign that it is past its best. Note that cauliflower will keep longer if you buy it in one piece, rather than pre-chopped.
Speaking of waste: Did you know that the stalk and leaves of the cauliflower are edible, too? The stalks go into all of my cauliflower dishes – I don't care that they are not in 'floret shape'. The chopped leaves are a great addition to vegetable soups and stocks.
With grain-free diets, such as Paleo, low-FODMAP diet, or SCD, gaining popularity, the humble cauliflower has experienced a revival. It is used to replace grains or other starches in countless dishes. As it is low in starch, it is low in carbohydrates, and so it makes a great addition to low-carb diets, too.
You can use cauliflower to make …
… mash – to eat as a side or a topping, e. g. for fish or shepherd's pie.
… 'rice' – chop into florets, pulse in a food processor until the cauliflower bits have reached a rice-like size. You can use it as is or season. I included a 'cauliflower rice' recipe in Nutrilicious News a few weeks ago.
… 'pizza base'
… 'bread sticks'
… and of course use it in a more traditional way: soups, steamed or roasted as a side, as an addition to curries, stews, and stir-fries, raw with a dip.
Foods that go well with cauliflower: almonds, anchovies, broccoli, capers, chilli, cumin, garlic, hard cheese, nutmeg, potato, saffron, shellfish, truffles, and walnuts.
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|Open forest, often near watercourses in the western Blue Mountains of New South Wales.
|Common Name:
|Mount Vincent mint bush.
|Derivation of Name:
|Prostanthera...from Greek prostheke; an appendix and anthera; an anther, referring to the appendage on the stamens
stricta... From Latin strictus, pulled together, rigid, presumably referring to the plant having a having an erect and upright habit of growth.
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|Listed as Vulnerable under the EPBC Act* (ie. facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the medium-term future because it has a restricted distribution. Classified as 2V under the ROTAP * system.
Prostanthera is a genus of about 90 species which occur only in Australia. They are known generally as "mint bushes" because of the aromatic foliage of many species. As a member of the Lamiaceae, Prostanthera is related to a number of culinary herbs such as mint, thyme, oregano and sage.
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Prostanthera stricta is an erect shrub to about 2 m high by a similar width with branches that are densely hairy. The leaves are oval shaped and up to 12 mm long and are also densely hairy. Like many mint bushes the leaves are highly aromatic. The flowers are seen in spring and are usually purple or mauve. Flowering is often prolific.
P.stricta is a hardy and quick growing plant which should be pruned back annually by about one third if a bushy shape is to be retained. Like most prostantheras it prefers a well drained, moist position with some shelter from direct summer sun.
Prostantheras respond to well to annual fertilising after flowering and are not as sensitive as some other Australian plants to phosphorus.
Propagation is easy from cuttings but seed can be slow to germinate. In areas where the root-rot fungus Phytophthora cinnamomi is a problem, grafting onto the related Westringia fruticosa is recommended.
* EPBC Act = Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999;
ROTAP = Rare or Threatened Australian Plants (Briggs and Leigh, 1988)
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Bloom is a private, non-profit organization that was founded in 1986 by a group of Fayette County citizens recognizing the need for children to have a safe refuge from abuse and neglect. Bloom provides safe shelter and physical, educational and emotional support to children who have been victims of abuse, neglect or other tragic circumstances, in order to strengthen them for the next phase of life.
Clothes Less Traveled serves the needs of those in our community by operating a thrift shop where gently-used household goods and clothing can be re-sold at fair and reasonable prices. Clothes Less Traveled is unique in that there is no other organization in Fayette County that grants all its net profits to other nonprofit organizations who then use those funds to make a difference in the community. Clothes Less Traveled also provides college scholarships to high school seniors each year.
The Eden Project is a veteran support organization comprised of warriors and supporters dedicated to provide world-class, community-based, holistic care to the veteran and his or her family and support group. The Eden Project meets veterans where they are in their journey and assists, encourages and empowers in the ways needed.
Fayette Senior Services has been making a meaningful difference in the emotional, social, and physical well-being of older adults by preserving their independence, improving their quality of life, and connecting them to the community since 1978. Fayette Senior Services offers a broad scope of life-enhancing services to Fayette County residents age 50 and better.
Midwest Food Bank bridges the gap between prosperity and poverty by gathering food and distributing it to nonprofit organizations locally, as well as across all of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee by providing disaster relief free-of-charge. Following God's call to serve and love one another, their mission is to help feed hungry people and to give our community the opportunity to serve and provide support.
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Southern Conservation Trust is a community land trust founded in 1993 by Fayette County residents eager to preserve greenspace as our community develops. The Trust protects greenspace, conserves forests, safeguards rivers, shelters wildlife, provides environmental education, and ensures that everyone has access to nature in communities throughout Georgia.
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Capstone Educational Consultants assists students and families in navigating the college journey. It is all about making informed and confident decisions toward the future and Capstone shapes those moments from the very beginning. Capstone's objective is to provide a personal and strategic approach to the complicated process of college selection and admission through strategic and tailored methods of helping students identify colleges that fit them best.
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CMIT Solutions, Inc. manages IT systems for businesses that depend on reliable technology to thrive. CMIT Solutions specialize in serving local businesses in our community. CMIT Solutions operates on a managed services model that offers proactive outsourced IT services and management services at affordable, consistent monthly rates. Their subscription model allows small business owners to effectively budget and foresee IT expenses, saving them money and time in the long run. They provide a variety of different services that can be tailored to suit all business needs.
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Dirt1x is a marketing agency for small businesses, providing growth strategy and full-service implementation of effective branding, sales materials, websites, event marketing, direct mail, public relations and advertising campaigns. Dirt1x says that they win when their clients have increased revenue and more time to spend on what's important to them, like their families.
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Vibrant Web Creations, LLC's main line of work has primarily been website and graphic design for small and/or startup organizations. Over the last 10 years, they have been progressively expanding beyond these services and have rendered services to medium-size businesses and governmental contracts. Their ultimate goal is to be the go-to full service marketing agency in the South Metro Atlanta area for medium to large size businesses and organizations, preferably but not limited to corporate, educational, governmental, and franchise accounts.


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Moerheim Beauty is part of the Helenium genus and is a Sneezeweed variety. Its scientific name is Helenium autumnale 'Moerheim Beauty'. Moerheim Beauty grows as a Perennial and is a Flower. Being a Perennial, it tends to grow best over several years (approx 3 years and greater). Moerheim Beauty is known for growing to a height of approximately 80.0 cm (2.60 feet).
Moerheim Beauty Sneezeweed is normally quite a low maintenance plant and is normally very easy to grow - great for beginner gardeners!
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This choice has been offered: either sacrifice* others to yourself, or sacrifice yourself to others. Now, which will you choose as your moral purpose? Which is more noble? Clearly, sacrificing others to yourself comes with the implicit, distasteful understanding that fraud or force is necessary because no one in their right mind would knowingly and voluntarily do that. Altruism rests on this foundation — the alternative is worse.
Are the alternatives correct, though, or is it a false dichotomy? The choice as presented assumes that sacrifice is necessary. If you do not choose to sacrifice yourself to others, then you necessarily will be sacrificing others to yourself (or vice versa). But is that assumption correct? Is sacrifice a necessary part of the way men deal with one another? If not, does that suggest a third option: neither sacrificing yourself to others, nor others to yourself?
Changing tracks a bit, it stands to reason that life, in order to survive, feeds off of other life-forms — from herbivores that eat grass to carnivores that eat herbivores, and everything in-between. That is the nature of life and nothing less will sustain it. None of the rules of life are arbitrary or whimsical — it is the necessary consequence of one of the laws of nature: the law of identity — A is A. A life-form is a particular type of entity, with particular characteristics and requirements. If any life-form were to act against — i.e. contradict — its requirements, then it would die. If a plant were to strangle its roots and shun light, it would wither and die. If an herbivore were to refuse to consume plants, it would die. If a carnivore were to refuse to consume herbivores, it would die.
With that in mind, it would be an error to assume that men deal with one another in the same manner and under the same terms as animals deal with other classes of life-forms — by consuming them. True, men deal with other classes of life-forms in this regard, but there is a key attribute that men possess which makes their interaction with each other different from all the rest — their rational faculty.
Man's mind allows him to produce the values, which his life requires. Man can organize plants in a manner which yields a thousand to a million times more produce than nature would otherwise produce. Man can organize animals in much the same way to create similar effects. Man can design and build machines to make his efforts ever more efficient. Man's limit of achievement has continuously been broken by each new invention. Man, by his nature, is a producer of his own values. Where in any of this, is sacrifice necessary?
Since men are the creators of the objective values that man's life requires, it is in man's nature to deal with other men, not as exploiter or exploitee, but as traders. Each man possesses a value that they produced (with which they are willing to part) and trades it for another value (which they require more than the original) — both men gain objective value which supports both of their lives. Where in any of this, is sacrifice necessary?
Remember, "If any life-form were to act against — i.e. contradict — its requirements, then it would die." To assume that sacrifice is necessary when dealing with one another is to assume that the only means to acquire values, which your life requires, is by expropriating them from others — this contradicts man's requirement to produce and trade the objective values that his life requires. Figuring out how to grow food will sustain your life, killing others for the food they created will not — what will happen when you run out of victims? Trading values that you do not require for those that you do will sustain your life, killing others who possess the values you need will not — what will happen when you run out of victims? Those potential victims, if regarded as traders instead, can continue to produce the values you require, which will allow you the opportunity to trade (if you offer them a good value in return).
Since altruism's foundation is based on the necessity of sacrifice, it too contradicts man's requirements, and therefore, is a morality of death. What are those contradictions, you might ask. For starters, altruism is a contradiction in terms. Isn't the person accepting the values, that you offer selflessly, selfish for accepting them? Selfishness goes against altruism and would be considered bad under those terms, right? Why would a moral standard require you to support its antithesis? Secondly, the nature of altruism contradicts man's requirements. Don't you require material values (food, water, cloths, shelter, etc.) to survive and live a fulfilling life? If you get those values from someone else, then according to the standard of altruism you'd be bad for being selfish, right? If you create them and consume them yourself, then according to altruism you'd be bad for not sharing, right? In either case, according to altruism, you're evil if you take steps to sustain your life.
Why would a moral standard, if practiced consistently, guide you to self-destruction? The fact that men are alive today means they've breached the morality of altruism to some degree — that leads to the perils of altruism: those who are noble die in its name and those who are alive owe their guilty lives to others.
The third option is far superior than the original two. It allows men to be set free from other men and allows them to live free on their own effort or any voluntary arrangements their hearts desire — all this is accomplished without sacrifice.
*Note: I suppose it would be prudent to clearly identify what I mean by sacrifice. It is a type of trade which exchanges something of higher value for something of lower value. A $1 bill in exchange for $100 bill is not a sacrifice — A $100 bill for $1 bill is. Going without food to feed your child is not a sacrifice — taking the food out of your child's mouth for another's child is.


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The price is for 1 NEW / In Original Box Sentex LiftMaster Model SL575 Commercial Duty Slide Gate OperatorContact: email@example.com (Bridgett Todd)
The LiftMaster® SL575 Slide Gate Operator is a reliable continuous-duty operator for use on heavy-gate applications in commercial and light industrial locations.
This resilient operator offers many standard features such as dual gate operation, sequenced access management, diagnostic LEDs, and more. The SL575 supports gate lengths up to 50 feet and gate weights up to 1,800 pounds making it ideal for commercial and light industrial installations.
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- 31 3/8" (H) x 27 ¼" (W) x 17 3/8" (D)
The SL 575 can be used with a manual override switch installed at a guard station and/or a 3rd party access control system to permit visitor access.The open request from either system will initiate the appropriate cycle.
This circuit will automatically shut off the operator. For example, it will prevent the motor from continuously running if the chain has broken.
A built-in Hall Effect sensor is used to monitor the rotational speed of the drive system. If this speed changes during opening or closing, the operator will stop and release pressure on the obstruction.
In addition to the inherent obstruction sensing, the SL 575 operators provide terminal connections for external devices such as photo eyes.
If there is a requirement for two separate gate operators to operate in unison at a single entrance, the SL 575 can be configured as a master/slave and right/left operation to ensure consistent open and close cycle for both operators simultaneously.This configuration is made simple with the utilization of a two wire communication connection.
For enhanced safety, a built-in warning alarm can sound three seconds before running and during the movement of the gate. This is a selectable item with the use of dip switch settings.
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How To Turn Your Store Into A Brand and get more exposure? What's in a brand?
The only question
which many of us ask yourself but, we tend to put a step forward for buying the
branded stuff most of the time. Isn't it? But, why do we buy branded stuff? What makes a
product or store to become a brand? Did you happen to dig into the efforts put
by the most talked about brands? I guess, the answer
would be NO!!
Without any effort, I bet not even a single product/store
would have been a brand this day. Are you ready to explore how your store can
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the stores to become a brand.
1.Identify Your
Customers :
A product or a store
doesn't turn into a brand overnight. Many Strategical moves have to be taken to
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customer behaviour. With the analytical data of the customers, it is always
easy to serve the needs of ideal customers. With the customer psychographics, positioning
of the product/store as a brand would be more meaningful. For Example, a boutique/store
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of fashion. What Could have been their first step to setup a store? Getting
updated with the fashion trends, preferences of people, location where the
store has to be set and the pricing of the clothing matching with the locality
would be the first step while establishing a store Considering the demographics
as the main factor helps the store to connect with the customers easily in the
later stage of the business
2. Connect With
New stores always
have a big challenge to gain the confidence of people. The stores could be
anything. Be it clothing, jewellery , electronic appliances etc .What matters
is how they are connecting with people!! You have a customer entering the
store. What do you do? Please them!! "First Impression is the best impression"
The important point any of the stores should follow is to perceive the future
customer and listen to their needs. - Having the best quality products within
the store is the first step in attracting the customer who at a later stage
will spread the word about the product. Yes, we can call it as "Customer
Evangelism". - Reasonable pricing of the quality products within the store
always lets the customer suggest their friends, peers, and communities
3. Quality Should be Priority :
Loyal Customers aren't easy to gain. It's worth working for.
Best products come with the best quality and that is what the customers look
for. Every individual seeks to have the best of what they own. In the case of
Boutiques, meeting the customer expectations is the most important factor.
Customers represent the brand and the brand should be known for its best
quality. Customers love to have the best thing with them and they will be
always ready to talk about their happiness with others. Giving more than what
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of the store.
4. Recognise the Reactions of Your Customers :
Now that as a business the store turns out to be successful
in connecting with the customers. It's time to follow the experiences faced by
the customers. Yes, valuing the customer always plays a key role in
establishing a brand. Following up the customers and getting to know about
their feedback always helps out in improving the services and expanding the
business. Continuing with the example of the boutique, let us consider a
customer goes out of the store with a customised designer wear for an occasion.
Looking into the customer experience with the outfit always gives the customer
a feel of personal touch which in turn helps to increase the brand value
5. Feature Customers On Your Social Pages :
With the rise of
social platforms like Facebook, Twitter,Instagram; various businesses happened
to have their existence on these platforms to connect with their customers and
followers. For a boutique, connecting with the followers and the existing
customers shouldn't be a tough task. Following the fashion have always been the
trend among the people and they will take any step to get updated about the
happenings in the fashion industry. Post follow up with the customers,
requesting them to share their experience after wearing the outfit through a
perfect picture and featuring the same over your social platform either by you
as a store or by the customer enhances your brand to be a considered as a
priority by the customers. Putting the customers in the limelight always make
them feel special and thus it can become your most valuable marketing asset
6. Reward Your Customers :
Constantly improving the brand is a great way to
keep the customers loyal . After every transaction from the store, getting the
feedback about the services, quality and future expectations lets you as a
store to get the outlook of the customer experience. Customers are the reason
behind any of the products to be turned into a brand. As a sign of being
thankful , the stores should always reward the customers for being loyal to the
brand Most of the retail stores introduced reward points being added to customer
account after every successful transaction. The retail stores maintain the
details of the customers ;segregates the loyal customers and the not so
frequently visiting customers.
With all this data, it becomes easy for the
store to strategize on how to retain the customers. With all these main factors
, it would be easier for a store to reach targeted customers and build a strong
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I've realized I haven't recorded her language progress, and I want to try to catch up so we have a record of it.
I don't even remember what her first actual word was…I think "bye", "hiee" (her way of saying "hi"), "da" and "nu" (for "no") were the earliest.
Now at 14 months, she is also saying "dada", "baby" (various adorable mispronunciations of it), "uh-oh" (I'm sure she got this one from my parents, and she actually uses it in context, too), "moh" (for "more"), and "baw" for "bottle", and "bah" for "ball" – there is a distinct difference between the "baw" and "bah"! She will also say "oooh" when she is excited.
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Dr Stefanie Gustafsson, Professor Juani Swart and Professor Nicholas Kinnie have been awarded the 'Best Overall Paper Award' of the Careers Division at the Academy of Management Conference 2015. They received the award for their paper entitled: "They are your testimony": Clients, Professionals and Promotions in Professional Service Firms.
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Have you ever been told that carbon markets/trading are an inherently complex/complicated1 topic that only experts understand? Well, you've been lied to. Twice! In a single sentence!
The first lie is that the matter is inherently complex/complicated. Explaining what carbon trading is, or even what a carbon market entails, is, in fact, surprisingly simple:
That's it! Even carbon offset certifications are easy to explain:
So, it needs to be clear that if there is anything complex/complicated with carbon markets is not because the matter is inherently difficult to grasp.
What is complex/complicated is the governance of carbon markets due to, at least partly, our inability to reach consensus on what the ideal carbon market looks like. As a result of the lack of consensus there is no global carbon market but many "parallel markets operating under the same conceptual basis, but with different governance structures".2 Many, many! Around 50 at my last count, based on the last count by the World Bank's Carbon Pricing Dashboard and the existence of some voluntary sub-markets not covered in said dashboard.
That's where the second lie happens. Because even experts don't understand the governance of carbon markets.
Not that I do!
One would need to be an omniscient computer to be able to grasp all the governance-induced interconnections and inter-linkages.
So, there you go, don't let them scare you away next time you're told that carbon trading or carbon markets are complex/complicated. They are only talking about the governance of carbon trading rather than the idea as such. And even they don't fully get it.
Ps!!! I'm being a bit sensationalist here. Not all experts will scare you away. Those that truly 'know their stuff' will accept their limitations and try to include you in the process of debating improvement.
- check my theory(ish) note on the nuances of the word 'complexity' to understand the differences any why I can't decide which word to use
- Bumpus, A. G., & Liverman, D. M. (2008) Accumulation by decarbonization and the governance of carbon offsets. Economic geography, 84(2), p. 128.


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Title: On the predictability of time-varying VAR and DSGE models
Author: BEKIROS, Stelios D.; PACCAGNINI, Alessia
Date: 2013
Citation: Empirical Economics, 2013, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 635-664
Over the last few years, there has been a growing interest in DSGE modelling for predicting macroeconomic fluctuations and conducting quantitative policy analysis. Hybrid DSGE models have become popular for dealing with some of the DSGE misspecifications as they are able to solve the trade-off between theoretical coherence and empirical fit. However, these models are still linear and they do not consider time variation for parameters. The time-varying properties in VAR or DSGE models capture the inherent nonlinearities and the adaptive underlying structure of the economy in a robust manner. In this article, we present a state-space time-varying parameter VAR model. Moreover, we focus on the DSGE–VAR that combines a microfounded DSGE model with the flexibility of a VAR framework. All the aforementioned models as well simple DSGEs and Bayesian VARs are used in a comparative investigation of their out-of-sample predictive performance regarding the US economy. The results indicate that while in general the classical VAR and BVARs provide with good forecasting results, in many cases the TVP–VAR and the DSGE–VAR outperform the other models.
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First Dedicated 'Bitcoin Bank' Opens In Vienna, Austria
The first self-titled 'Bitcoin Bank' has opened in Vienna, Austria. Run and managed by a local startup Bit Trust, the bank allows customers to buy and sell bitcoins using Bitcoin ATMs, and get more information about cryptocurrency.
Disclaimer - the original article described the shop as a 'Bitcoin Bank' in line with several other news sources. After receiving feedback from Bit Trust, the article has been corrected as the shop is not intended to serve the purposes of a bank.
What is likely the world's first dedicated Bitcoin bank has opened in the heart of the Austrian capital Vienna.
Named simply 'Bitcoin-Bank,' the dedicated physical outlet is owned and managed by a local Blockchain startup Bit Trust.
It is designed to make buying and selling Bitcoin easier and safer than other in-person options such as Localbitcoins meetings.
"It's just much quicker this way and involves zero middlemen," Bit Trust manager Magdalena Isbrandt told local news network ORF. "Value and money can be sent straight from user to user."
As well as Bitcoin ATMs, customers can also get information about Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Bank is located at 49 Mariahilfer Strasse in the center of the city.
Bit Trust is a German Blockchain startup founded in 2014. Headquartered in Berlin, it focuses on payments systems, investments and consulting services.
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Why Opening Is Important In Every Home Interior Design
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Most people often look too busy when setting up new home interiors. It is because they have to cope with complex things like furniture and activities like painting the walls, ceiling, and decorating the interior. Certainly, all of those are very necessary to deal with. But, do many people pay attention to openings when designing home interiors?
The Utility of Opening for Every Home Interior DesignOpening in every home interior cannot be seen just lightly. Many times, we are reminded that a house with minimal natural lighting in never advantageous, primarily for the owner(s).
- Economical Reason Economical reason seems to be an obvious reason, since you'll need more electric bulbs to illuminate the room. But, you cannot also forget that nuance is much more important. Taking for granted, the presence of more bulbs that use electricity power means the higher potency for spending a much higher budget to pay for the electricity utility per month.
- Functional Reason With more openings in a room, exactly, the interior can feel more homey, spacious, and healthier, which can boost the mood of everyone in there. In short, with a sufficient proportion of openings in a home interior, the functionality of the interior can be much more optimized.
Doors, Windows, Ventilations: The Openings in Every Home Interior DesignI think many more people nowadays have understood more clearly about the significance of openings inside a home interior as various models of openings can be seen in each home interior design.
Essential, the diversity in how openings in home interiors are designed and manifested refer to three basic kinds of openings, such as door, window, ventilation, and roof opening.


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Charmaine McDonald, UK Managing Director, McKesson, comments, "Hospital staff currently rely on an array of devices such as pagers, texts, radio communications and the telephone to keep abreast of the current hospital environment and ward status. Horizon Enterprise Visibility uses visual controls to drive and sustain process improvements, which will ultimately increase patient status visibility for all staff and allow increased focus on the core issue of patient care."
Through this centralized display, Horizon Enterprise Visibility helps healthcare organizations achieve better outcomes of patient care and move patients effectively towards discharge. This visual control system brings all ward information, and critical enterprise wide departmental information together through one electronic 'whiteboard' overview. Designed to make nurses lives easier, Horizon Enterprise Visibility allows real-time information about their patients without logins, pagers or having to make phone calls.
Streamlined communication boosts nurse satisfaction. The question patients and families ask nurses most is, "When is my doctor going to be here?" Often the nurse doesn't know who the patient's doctor is, let alone when he or she will round that day.
Using a visual control system and Internet portal, clinicians can log in remotely to identify their patients' locations and nurse assignments, and indicate on the electronic whiteboard for each unit when they will round. This information is automatically
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Because room status (occupied, empty, being cleaned, etc.) is also broadcast intuitively, nurses don't have to repeatedly call housekeeping services to request that a room be cleaned. Instead, managers can quickly determine where staff are needed most, and workers can better manage their own day. Everyone can see how long a cleaning has been in progress and anticipate when a room should be ready.
When deciding whether to approve a new technology investment, executives want solutions that can drive and sustain multiple enterprise wide process improvements at once — and that provide a quantifiable return on investment. McKesson's solution basically broadcasts the information from underlying source systems for everyone to see and use. This exposure enhances the value of those systems by increasing their
adoption and the accuracy of the information they contain. There are few infrastructure requirements and no complex integration to be done. Most "users" are simply viewers, so training amounts to reinforcing what the various visual controls mean and reinforcing the importance of relying on them to prioritise activities throughout the day.
This state of the art system intuitively displays real-time information at a glance via plasma or LCD screens. Existing departmental systems and location technologies, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, populate the visual displays in real-time through color-coded, time-stamped icons and signal lights mapped against the floor plan of a hospital. This enables hospital staff to quickly identify isolation patients, fall risks or any other patient safety concerns and flashing timers can be used to indicate key actions required.
Currently deployed in hospitals across the US and Germany, Horizon Enterprise Visibility features more than 75 configurable indicators allowing individual Trusts to set the measures to manage their wards' activities and quickly identify the status of critical test results, patient locations, discharge times and bed or room availability.
In addition, Horizon Enterprise Visibility intuitively broadcasts the status of a bed or room – whether it is occupied, empty or being cleaned – which negates the need to make multiple calls requesting housekeeping services. Charmaine continues, "This room status indicator has proven to be a massive time-saver: managers can quickly determine where the staff are most needed, employees can better manage their own time, and all staff have visibility of when resources - both people and beds - are available and the specific location of essential equipment."
Charmaine concludes, "At McKesson we are committed to understanding the needs of the healthcare sector and we believe that there is huge potential for visual controls technology in the UK. We are confident that visual controls will be recognized as the gold standard for driving and sustaining process improvement in the acute care setting."
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An angry dad today backed a mum's call for a ban on the sale of imitation firearms after his gun-toting son was featured on the Gazette's front page.
Mark Parker, 13, from Middlesbrough, was pictured taking pot-shots from the roof of a building in Middlesbrough with his friend Christopher Alton, 15, on Friday.
Christopher's furious mum Rita, 39, from Camden Street in the town, took matters into her own hands after seeing the pair in the Gazette, smashing the ball bearing gun to pieces with a hammer.
And today, Mark's dad Steven, of nearby Somerset Street, told the Gazette his son had handed himself in to police as he slammed his actions as "dangerous".
Mr Parker, 32, said: "We just wish he had never done it. It was a shock to see him in the paper.
"I thought it was funny at first and then I was fuming. He could have caused an accident.
"What he did was wrong but he made a mistake. He has never been in trouble with the police before."
Christopher, from Camden Street, told the Gazette he had bought the BB gun from the indoor market in Middlesbrough's Hill Street Centre for just #5 - money he had saved from delivering leaflets for a local takeaway.
On Thursday, Gazette photographer Dave Charnley was targeted when he took pictures of the pair taking pot-shots from the roof of a building on Grange Road.
The duo were later arrested in connection with the incident but released on bail.
Mark declined to comment but said he believed handing himself into police was the best thing to do.
Mr Parker said his son had told him not to buy the Gazette, warning him he was on the front page.
But when the Middlesbrough dad went to a local shop, he spotted the picture of his son holding the gun, which fires plastic pellets.
"I didn't know what to say," he added.
"I played hell with him. but they shouldn't be selling these guns. If the law will allow you to buy one, you should have to have a licence.
"The problem is there is nothing for them to do. They can't go to the park because of druggies and people drinking there and there is nowhere for them to play football."
Partner Sarah Howes, 19, added: "You go to a nightclub and you have to be 18, but that is nowhere near as bad as letting them buy guns and knives.
"If they are under 18, they should not be allowed them."
* The family fears Mark has been branded a rogue, claiming he was told not to stray from his dad's side at a family fun day in Middlesbrough on Saturday, because of complaints about the teenager.
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Nick Vertucci Releases New Book On Real Estate Investing And His Life
Real estate investor Nick Vertucci has put out a book covering his life called "Seven Figure Decisions: Having the Balls to Succeed". This book covers his life and also provides tips on how to make money as a real estate investor. He writes about having an entrepreneurial spirit that will result in result in going from having an average income to being a millionaire.
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After becoming a millionaire himself by buying and selling homes Nick Vertucci launched his latest company which is Nick Vertucci Real Estate Academy. He and his team teach others what he has learned and how to apply his strategies themselves. The offer free local real estate workshops around the country. Attendees also get a free "Fortunes in Flipping" set for being there.
Nick Vertucci was a police officer for 18 years before starting to be involved in the real estate industry on a full-time basis. He says he went from saving physical lives to saving financial lives. He knows every in and out of how to flip a house and maximizing the profits from doing so. He also shows people how to buy properties and use them to build a steady cash flow. He says that are both great opportunities and risks when buying and selling real estate and people need a mentor to invest properly.


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A Jewish man's religious fur hat was allegedly thrown off in an antisemitic attack in north-east London. According to Stamford Hill Shomrim, a Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol, the incident took place on Saturday morning between 00:15 and 00:20 in Amhurst Park in Hackney.
The alleged victim, a recognisably Jewish man, was crossing Stamford Hill from Clapton Common (near Boots chemist) towards Amhurst Park during the Jewish Sabbath. As he reached the centre crossing island, three suspects approximately 15-17 years old, crossed into the centre of the road. They allegedly started swearing at him and tried to scare him in a completely unprovoked attack. The victim continued to cross the road into Amhurst Park and just before the bus stop, one of the youths ran up behind him and chucked off his fur hat of the kind traditionally worn by some charedi (orthodox) Jews.
Stamford Hill Shomrim is assisting the victim. We are following this case with interest.
Assisting a victim of antisemitic hate crime, where suspects intimidated the victim & chucked off his religious hat in an unprovoked attack pic.twitter.com/5n3z96XRfd
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Some of this article has been contradicted and is subject to change with the writing of Jedi Generals: Cato Gisera.
Cato Gisera was a Nautolan Jedi Master during the failing days of the Old Republic. He was a major general in the Clone War and fought in such engagements as Ragdon, Serenno, and Telmaros. He was slain on Naboo by his own Clone Troopers, one of many Jedi to fall during Order 66.
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Born: 73 BBY, Glee Anselm
Died: 19 BBY, Naboo
Species: Nautolan
Affiliation: Jedi Order, 723rd Republic Legion
Jedi Path: Consular
Weapon: Green Lightsaber
Lightsaber Form: Djem So.
Master: Unknown
Apprentices: Maran Teesa, Caeva Ta
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Cato Gisera was a tenacious and relentless Jedi. Though opinionated, he was highly effective in battle and a good leader.
Though he initially chose the path of a Consular and studied the Force, when the war came, he became more of a Guardian, hard in battle and focused on swordsmanship and battle prowess above all else. Some, his former apprentice Maran Teesa included, believed he had been hardened and corrupted by the war, no longer sticking to Jedi ideals so much as intent on victory.
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Gisera, as a young Jedi, became powerful in the Force, upholding the practices of a Consular. Later, though, he focused more on swordsmanship, fully mastering Shien and Djem So. He often wielded a shoto in addition to his full-length saber. His abilities with a lightsaber were great enough that he could briefly hold his own against General Grievous in a battlefield setting. He also went up against former Battlemaster Sora Bulq, albeit with the aid of Masters Plo Koon and Kyidyin Muchian, and Dark Jedi Nioman Dokoora.


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Pet owners are distraught and vulnerable when a beloved pet goes missing. Unfortunately, there are some insidious scams meant to defraud heartbroken pet owners. By checking 'lost pet' ads, these unscrupulous people find their next victim. Here are some of the more common scams, followed by tips on how you can help your pet stay safe.
The Pay-Me-First Scam:
A pet owner receives a phone call from a person who claims that They have the lost pet. This person asks that the reward money be sent to them first before they return the pet. If the pet owner refuses, they will often threaten to hurt the pet in order to pressure the pet owner into paying.
The Truck Driver Scam:
Someone claiming to be a long-haul truck driver tells you that he came across your pet while on his route. He then asks you to send him money so that he can send your pet back to you. In another variation, the scammer may ask you to send him money to board your pet until he can send your pet back with another truck driver who's heading your way. A third variation has the scammer claiming that your pet needed vet care which he had done. He asks that you send him money so that he can pick up your pet from the vet and send him back to you.
The Switch-a-Roo:
You receive a call from someone who says that they think they have your pet. After talking to you for a while and getting information about your pet, they apologize and say that they're sorry, but it turns out that it's not your pet after all. They then give all the information about your pet to a partner. The partner contacts you and gives an accurate description of your pet (making you hope & believe that he actually does have him), then asks for a reward before they'll return your pet.
The Airline Ticket Scam:
Someone calls and claims that your pet somehow ended up in another state or province. They ask you to send money for a kennel and an airline ticket and they'll ship your pet back. Once the pet owners sends the money, the scammer walks away with it. The pet owner never sees his pet and has lost his money too.
Many other scams exist, as well as several variations of the ones listed above. Be cautious - never send a reward until your pet is back home with you.
Some of the things you can do to help keep your pet safe include:
|Bunchers and Class B Dealers: this is one of the most heartbreaking things that can happen to a much-loved pet. Class B Dealers are people who are licensed by the USDA and can gather pets from "random sources" such as auctions or flea markets. "Bunchers" also collect animals from random sources, but are not regulated. Both groups sell the pets to research facilities. These people have been known to steal pets from yards and cars, or answer 'free to good home' ads! More information about Bunchers and Class B Dealers is available from the Humane Society of the United States.
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We need your help to complete the Nordic Legacy Project.
The Nordic Legacy Project is a capital campaign supporting our cross country ski team facilities. To continue the level of excellence of our cross country program, SVSEF needs to update and improve its facilities. There are three components to the Nordic Legacy Project.
- Pave a 1.5km rollerski sprint training loop at the Dumke Family Sagewillow Campus, which provides SVSEF athletes with a state-of-the-art facility that allows for high-velocity skiing in a safe yet challenging environment.
- Install a roller ski treadmill, enabling coaches to effectively assess fitness improvements
- Outfit a cross country athletic performance testing facility. The facility includes university-grade metabolic testing equipment to allow staff to evaluate athletic performance, including anaerobic threshold analysis, lactate production analysis and max VO2 analysis while cross country skiing on the treadmill. Biomechanical video analysis is also be available to athletes.
Click here for a video of the new roller ski trails and roller ski treadmill facility.
The Lake Creek Cross Country Ski Center serves as a four-season facility to over 150 SVSEF skiers. The building requires a complete internal retrofit in order to continue to adequately provide the same high level of programming to our participants. See below for images and needs.
The cross country ski team requires key equipment to deliver great programs to our participants. The Nordic Legacy Project provides us the opportunity to secure critical equipment in support of our athletic objectives.
Capitol Equipment:
• Lake Creek cross country trails tractor with trails mower and large volume snow blower
• 15-passenger capacity van
• Heavy-duty cargo truck and specialized wax trailer for skier support at competitions
Cynthia Knight, Director of Development
Rick Kapala, Cross Country Program Director