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Admissions & Placement
Thank you very much for your interest in applying to our graduate programs in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We offer doctoral training in Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology, with a single admissions process for all applicants. Details about our graduate curricula are available in our graduate handbook.
Applications for Fall 2021 admission are due by December 1, 2020, and should be completed on-line through the University of Illinois Graduate College via the link below. Admissions decisions are typically made during January and February. We do not accept new students for the Spring term.
A complete application involves considerable effort on your part and consists of the following:
- The application for admission to the Graduate College, including transcripts from your previous schools. The application is available on-line.
- The statement of your research interests in anthropology (these typically average 4 to 5 double spaced pages)
- Letters of recommendation from three people who know you well and can evaluate your potential for advanced study in anthropology.
- The GRE (Graduate Record Examination) is no longer a requirement for admission to the graduate program.
- International applicants must submit Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores, unless you attended an English-speaking university for at least two years.
- International applicants must submit appropriate visa and financial documentation as detailed in the Graduate College application form.
Admissions decisions are among the most important that our faculty make. Each year we receive applications from many more well-qualified candidates than we are able to admit to our programs. The care you take in preparing your statement and in selecting the persons who will be sending letters of recommendation on your behalf will help provide us with the information we will use to identity applicants most likely to succeed in our programs.
Our Department is deeply committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive professional and scholarly community. In accordance with discussions and initiatives in our profession and on the University of Illinois campus (http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/), we recognize that dimensions of identity such as race, gender, class, religion, disability, language, and sexuality matter at once as crucial topics of anthropological study and in terms of the politics of scholarly practice. These values help guide our graduate programs from the admissions process through all phases of training and mentoring.
Successful applicants to our department will be joining one of the leading anthropology programs in the nation. According to the 2010 National Research Council (NRC) report on graduate programs across the nation, Anthropology at the University of Illinois ranked 12th out of 82 peer programs overall, and received rankings of 1st in program outcomes; 1st in percentage of students fully supported through the graduate program; 6th in percentage of minority students; 7th in percentage of international students; and 8th in time to degree.
Our program typically provides admitted graduate students with five and half years of funding support to assist them in their period of studies and research. This support usually includes fifty-percent-time positions as a teaching assistant or research assistant, with accompanying tuition and fee waivers and related benefits. Continuing support is contingent upon each graduate student's strong progress in the program. After the first four years of such support, students are later eligible for one and half years of such department funding support after they complete work on dissertation research. Our University also provides additional opportunities for competitive grants and fellowships to support course work, research, travel, and dissertation completion.
Again, thank you for your interest in the University of Illinois. We look forward to your application.
Brenda Farnell
Head, Department of Anthropology
For additional information on Graduate Study in Anthropology please contact:
- Dr. Kathryn B. H. Clancy
Director, Graduate Studies Program
Phone: 217-244-1509
- Ms. Joyce Dowell
Graduate Program Coordinator
Phone: 217-300-9167
- Dr. Kathryn B. H. Clancy
Specific Requirements for Advanced Degrees
The department offers two advanced degrees, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. The qualified student may work directly for the Ph.D. degree without taking an M.A. If an M.A. is taken, all requirements for it must be met by the time of, or before, the completion of the Preliminary Examination for the Ph.D. degree.


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This new "one movie in two parts" thing is becoming a trend and im hating it. Not saying anything bad about this specific Hobbit movie. but whats next? Captain America part 1? Happy Gilmore Part 2 and 3?
From what we know and what they've said about the films in the past, this won't be one long movie that's split in two. Supposedly the first Hobbit movie will cover all the stuff from the book. Then the second film will help bridge the gap between Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies.
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Eleanor Tiernan – People Pleaser
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Starring: Eleanor Tiernan
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Starring: Eleanor Tiernan
A stranger asks a small favour. It seems so mean to refuse. But every action has its consequences. And when it's too late, it's too late. Compulsive Irish over-thinker Eleanor Tiernan is back at the Fringe with a brand-new stand-up show. As seen on Comedy Central's the Alternative Comedy Experience and Irish Pictorial Weekly on RTÉ. 'A distinctive inspired comic mind' (Scotsman). 'Tiernan boasts a magnificent curl in her lip and snarl in her voice' (Sunday Times).
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Brexit is creeping into a lot of shows this year.
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new edition of cela
Since receiving the incredible news that the European Union will support CELA for another four years, preparations for the new edition of CELA have officially started! Featuring old and new partners and more countries, the new edition is organised by Wintertuin (The Netherlands), Escuela de Escritores (Spain), Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren (Belgium), Passa Porta (Belgium), Scuola Holden (Italy), Goga (Slovenia), Camara Municipal de Óbidos (Portugal), České literární centrum (Czech Republic), Asociatia Editorilor din Romania (Romania), Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe (Poland) and Association KROKODIL (Serbia).
Are you interested in participating in the new edition of CELA? The coming weeks we will be preparing the selection procedure for new participants. Information about how and when to apply will be shared in the CELA newsletters, so keep an eye out on those. You can subscribe to the CELA newsletter below. Do you know someone who might be interested in applying? Forward the newsletter to let them know about CELA.


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"From Craft to Art: Communicating Through the Medium of Book Art," a talk by Book Artist Lyall Harris
Please join us for COMMA's next event in our year-long series, "The Desert of the Real." Award-winning book artist Lyall Harris will be presenting "From Craft to Art: Communicating Through the Medium of Book Art" on Thursday, May 5th at 3:00. This event, hosted in conjunction with UCSB Special Collections, will be held in UCSB Library's Special Collections Conference room (3rd Floor of Davidson Library) with a reception immediately to follow.
Since the late 90s, Lyall Harris' artwork has been exhibited in more than one hundred solo and juried group shows and recognized with over twenty awards, including The George Hitchcock Prize for painting from the National Academy Museum, NY, and a Purchase Award in Book Art from the University of Utah for a fifteen-book site-specific project. Her book art can be found in numerous Special Collection libraries across the United States, among these, Yale (Haas Arts Library), Stanford (Green Library), Indiana University (Lilly Library), Davidson Library (UCSB) and Smith College (Mortimer Rare Book Room). Harris has been the recipient of fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, NALL Foundation in Vence, France, and San Francisco's Grabhorn Institute.
"From Craft to Art; Communicating Through the Medium of Book Art"
Book art at its best is a medium where the maker's keen use of the material components creates a faceted, more comprehensive and potent language to express content. In this way, the parts themselves, in the context of the piece, become bearers of meaning that work collectively to cause a kind of "transcendence," from material to conceptual. This is where craft becomes art. Lyall Harris will present an array of these "literary art objects"—variously spawned by particular texts, "book" forms, specific materials, or images—to illustrate my creative process and the unique potential of book art as medium.


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Really excited about this: on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at my favourite bookstore, McNally Robinson, I'll be in conversation with the amazing writer & editor Warren Cariou, and one of my favourite journalists, Joanne Kelly, talking about The Evolution of Alice, my first novel, and how it all came to be.
Here is the event information on McNally's website: RIGHT HERE!
I would love to go into the process of how "Alice" came to be now, but that would take away all of the fun of actually going to the event and checking it out for yourselves. However, after the event is done, I'll write another blog about the whole thing, because it really is an interesting and unique journey; everything about it: the story behind why I wrote it, the process in which it was written, all of that.
This is another event for the On The Same Page 2016 initiative through the Winnipeg Public Library and the Winnipeg Foundation. Following the "Deconstructing Alice" event, we're going to have a past winners event at the Millennium Library where I'm going to be welcoming Beatrice Mosionier, Joan Thomas, Kate Vermette, and a few other surprise guests. It's going to be awesome.
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Instructables user fritz.bogott made this very fancy earth pizza oven, and documented every step of the way. He writes:
After several years of baking in North House Folk School's wood-fired brick oven, I decided to build an oven of my own. I went a little crazy with extra features (slab foundation, arches, ash dump, chimney, doors, wood storage) and decorations (limestone around the foundation), but you can make a very usable version in a weekend with salvaged materials and a couple of friends.


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My Favorite Photographers
- Annie Leibovitz – She is the only photographer who has a style that I recognize immediately. It takes a lot to stand out as a photographer. It isn't like other media where the stroke of your hand makes a signature line that is unique to you!
- Sally Mann – I always liked her portraits but didn't really fall in love with her until I read her memoir Hold Still. WOW. I highly recommend the book.
- Bill Cunningham – Ok, so I maybe hoped and prayed everytime I went to New York City that Bill Cunningham would drive by me on his bicycle and capture my photo. A girl can dream. Always enjoyed seeing his photographs in the New York Times. I recommend the documentary about him called Bill Cunningham New York. You will fall in love with him.
- Diane Arbus – I remember seeing her photographs in a library book in college and being blown away. What in the world was I looking it? She is like no other.
- Cindy Sherman – Thank you Cindy Sherman for getting me started in my college photography class. I really enjoyed her self portrait film stills. Self portraits were my way out of Alopecia hell. I tip my hat to you Cindy!


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BFN Networks presents
The Sound Of You & Me
Season 16
November 9, 2007
Seven . . . er, Four Deadly Sins of Bobby Bare Jr.
"Beware the fists of Bobby Bare Jr.!"
Justin Velander Holt (f/k/a Bob Dubilina)
Kyle Ramos
Special Guest:
Bobby Bare Jr.
Editor's Note: This interview was recorded at Chewey's, a burger joint across the street from the Metro in Chicago. We had a big snafu during this recording in that we didn't get the first three sins – Envy, Greed & Gluttony – on the record. In order to catch you up on what you might have missed, we offer the following quotes from Bobby Bare Jr.:
Greed: "I am greedy for sleep. I don't get enough of it."
Envy: "I envy people who sleep."
Gluttony: "Food's here!"
We tackle the remaining four sins once we're finished eating. Enjoy!
Interview Time: 10 min:11 sec
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John Ingles was born and raised in St. Clair Michigan. From 1968 through 71 he served and received many awards in the Vietnam war. After coming home he continued his tennis career by enrolling at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he eventually earned a scholarship on their inaugural men's tennis team under legendary college coach Kent Demars.
In 1977 he continued his tennis career by playing and working under the watchful eye of one of the greatest coaches of all time Harry Hopman. Who's name sake still continues at the Saddlebrook Tennis Academy in Tampa Florida.
He came to Delray Beach Florida in 1979 to be the first tennis director at Laver's resort and racquet club, where it became a top 20 tennis resort in the world. He has coached some of the all-time great players in the world.
While still focusing on local kids and their families, he coached one family to 2 USTA national family of the year awards. He also has been coaching and mentoring children at Saint Joseph's Episcopal School in Boynton Beach or the last 30 years.
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Canada--Victims blast Catholic school officials for "dangerous secrecy"
For immediate release: Wednesday, April 15
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, 314 566 9790, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Shame on Bruce Campbell and every official with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board for their reckless, callous and dangerous practice of secrecy in child sex abuse cases.
We call on Toronto Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins to discipline top administrators of this school and issue a strong public statement that known or suspected child sex crimes in Catholic facilities must be immediately reported to parents, parishioners, police, prosecutors and the public. Every delay in reporting, every hour of secrecy, gives accused criminals more chances to destroy evidence, intimidate victims, threaten witnesses, discredit whistleblowers, fabricate alibis, and even flee the country. Every hour serious accusations of clergy sexual misconduct are kept quiet, other innocent children and vulnerable adults are left in harm's way.
The school's public relations man claims that Fr. Roth occasionally went into elementary and secondary schools to help deliver liturgies and was always accompanied by a staff member in what were large group settings. We suspect he's lying. And even if he's not, this is irrelevant. It takes only seconds for a child predator to shove his hands down a boy's pants or his tongue down a girl's throat. These predators are usually very cunning and manipulative, able to win the trust of both students and staff. So this pathetic effort to reassure parents that Fr. Roth allegedly had little chance to hurt Dufferin-Peel students is stunningly irresponsible.
It's also possible that Fr. Roth befriended and molested kids of school staffers or kids in the neighborhood around the school. But apparently Dufferin-Peel officials don't care to try to find out.
Catholic officials can always find or invent excuses for doing little or nothing to reach out to others who may have been sexually assaulted by clerics. But these excuses (like "Roth had limited interaction with students and the allegations against him reportedly occurred in a non-school setting, in another country, and the priest had no history of wrongdoing with the Dufferin-Peel board") are incredibly irresponsible and self-serving. Take the claim that Fr. Roth "had no history of wrongdoing with the Dufferin-Peel board. So does that mean that the school would hire a teacher or staff who had molested a dozen kids in a dozen different schools, so long as he "had no history of wrongdoing" with THEIR school? That's preposterous.
Every single person who saw, suspected or suffered child sex crimes or cover ups in Dufferin-Peel should call police, get help, expose wrongdoing, deter cover ups, protect kids and start healing.
(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We were founded in 1988 and have more than 20,000 members. Despite the word "priest" in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
Contact - David Clohessy 314-566-9790, firstname.lastname@example.com, Barbara Dorris 314-503-0003, email@example.com, Barbara Blaine 312-399-4747, email@example.com
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• Planet Nordic Home
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Fishing practices in much of the world are entirely unregulated. Norway, however, is doing an excellent job of protecting their waters from overfishing.
The Norwegian government quota system represents the most comprehensive and stringent monitoring system for fishing in existence today. Fishing practices, equipment, and catch are rigorously inspected, and all infractions are heavily fined. Based upon research findings of the the Norwegian Ocean Research Institute (NORC), quotas for each fishing vessel are issued twice each year.
The Organisation for Norwegian Fishermen (ONF), the largest independent fishing organisation in Norway, utilses third-party international research to monitor the work completed by NORC.
Norwegian-born Joar Opheim, Nordic Naturals CEO, has long-term relationships with Nordic Naturals' fishermen and makes regular trips to the manufacturing facility in Norway to oversee sourcing and quality control. By insisting upon a high standard of responsibility, Nordic Naturals ensures that all fish harvested—both the Arctic Cod/Skrei harvested in Arctic Norway, as well the sardines and anchovies harvested from the South Pacific Ocean—are harvested through sustainable fishing practices. For our South Pacific sourcing, Nordic Naturals has built a relationship with an independent company that follows strict quotas identical to Norway's. Every catch is monitored by the authorities, and we receive spec sheets of the catch prior to processing to verify adherence to our quality specifications.
In Norway, "the government monitors the waters very closely to identify fish quantites. They determine overall quotas, which are divided down to the level of individual boats. You can only take certain numbers, and violators are heavily fined. It's been that way for 30 years, and it's working."
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Jouitteau (2019)
- Jouitteau, M. 2019. 'The nativeness of Breton speakers and their erasure', Studia Celtica Posnaniensia 4(1), 1-26, texte.
Abstract: "I discuss the nativeness of heritage speakers of Breton in the twentieth century. I present a syntactic test designed for Breton that sets apart the natives and the late learners, for which Breton is a second language. Nativeness is revealed by a better tolerance to syntactic overload when sufficient linguistic stress is applied. Both heritage speakers of inherited Breton and early bilinguals whose linguistic input comes exclusively from school answer this test alike, which I take as a sign they are cognitively natives. The syntactic nativeness of children deprived of familial Breton input suggests there is much more young Breton natives among contemporary speakers than previously assumed. Taking stock of these results, I discuss the cultural invisibilisation of Breton native speakers. I compare their cultural treatment with the figure of the ghost."


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The following programs and resources assist schools and educators with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander schooling.
CSIRO is implementing an
Indigenous STEM Education Program aimed at increasing participation and achievement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). There are 6 elements to the program catering to students as they progress through primary, secondary and tertiary education, and into employment, including in remote communities. Elements include summer schools and excellence awards.
The Dandiiri-Inala School and Community Library has a wide range of resources reflecting all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture and history. The collection includes fiction and non-fiction books for all ages, DVDs, artefacts and toys.
State Library of Queensland resources relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, language centres and language resources in Queensland.
Be Deadly Online provides cybersafety resources designed for Indigenous communities. It includes lesson plans and videos targeted for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
The MilbaDjunga Smart Money education units help teach responsible money management to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. These resources are in line with consumer and financial literacy in mathematics in the Australian Curriculum.
Professional development in YuMi Deadly Maths is offered by
Queensland University of Technology YuMI Deadly Centre. The aim of YuMi Deadly Maths is to enhance the mathematics teaching capacity of schools using a train-the-trainer model to develop strategies that effectively engage Indigenous students. Four centres of excellence have been established to support schools implementing the YuMI Deadly Maths approach.
Deadly Science is a Certificate III in Indigenous Land Management program, currently run on the north side of Brisbane. This initiative has been developed to address engagement, retention, attainment and pathway opportunities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people in Years 11 and 12 in metropolitan region schools. The Deadly Science course is a heavily outdoor-based qualification with many course components comprised of natural area restoration and revegetation and weed control activities.
Crackerjack Education has been developed to help young Australians in mainstream classrooms understand the depth and beauty of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture by providing a range of interactive resources for teachers, parents and educators.
The Solid Pathways pilot project aims to support high achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and students in out-of-home care for continued academic success and university studies. The students from Years 4–12 use online programs for critical and creative thinking, peer interaction and experience with the idea of university studies as they move through school and on to tertiary education or work.
Solid Choices, Healthy Futures is a developing sexual health curriculum aligned to the Australian HPE Curriculum released in February 2014. The focus is on year levels 5–6, 7–8, 9–10 and unit plans including assessment tasks are available.
The Indigenous Student Ambassador Network (ISAN) promotes a strong sense of cultural identity and leadership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The ambassador network enables Indigenous student leaders to share ideas and identify issues for social action projects in their schools and communities.


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So, what is your job? As a franchisor, your job is to create a strong overarching marketing strategy that will help every branch maximize its marketing potential while ensuring brand consistency every step of the way. To that end, here are the most effective ways you can create a winning franchise marketing strategy.
Online Marketing Pips Out Franchise Marketing - Get To Know Why
Marketing has been an un-mastered art of business. Not everyone get the hang of it except those tycoons who take a lot of meaningful effort in finding answers to the question "What is Effective Marketing and how it is done"? With different forms of marketing stemming up, business firms feel it tough music to select the best form befitting the requirements of their business. To let you know more about this, I'm going to focus on the most buzzed about topic of marketing "Franchise Versus Online marketing"!
Franchise Marketing is Not Everybody's Game
Budding entrepreneurs usually want to be a boss of a firm. They hold their supremacy as their privilege to work flexibly, to make more money and to spend fewer hours at work. They know this sort of comfort is very much possible given that they have enough awareness on franchise marketing. The franchise business is all the rage now considering the success of many chain restaurants like the Subway and McDonald. Though they're moderately old they have made it big in several reserved parts of the world. People who aspire to become entrepreneurs someday will not only savor the food catered at these places but also the effective system, which has led to the success of these franchises.
Some of the factors, which will not favor the budding entrepreneur of this generation, are listed below.
- Conformance to Conventional Practices
- Huge Upfront Investment
- Effective Financing Technique
- Workers Remuneration
- Insurance
- Recruitment
- Termination of Worker's contract
- Costly Set up and
- Period of Wait to see Results
Benefiting From The Hassle-free Online Marketing
On the other hand, there is a marketing technique, which doesn't necessitate a lengthy checklist to maintain, as it is so simple yet effective- Online Marketing. Considering the bludgeoning pace at which the Internet medium is blanketing the planet, online business is here to stay. Promotion of products online requires a prospective customer to spend less time at the comfort of home- Lying in the couch, grabbing some popcorn from the bowl. Isn't it shopping at its best?
Reaching customers in their favorable means add spice to this whole concept. After all that is what marketing is all about! Isn't it?
Some of the merits that lures the budding entrepreneurs to go for online marketing is presented as follows:
- Instant Results
- No need to invest a huge sum and keep the business running by constantly financing it
- No/ Minimum Employee base
- No recruitment and termination of contracts.
- No need to find a fitting location to run business.
- Minimum efforts when compared to Franchise marketing and the results that you deserve.
I have given you some subtle insights into "Franchise versus Online Marketing" so that you're able to take a firm stand. However, there are a lot of auxiliary factors to deal with considering how attached and dedicated you are to your business. Furthermore, you must figure the line of demarcation that lets you know which of the two befits your business requirements. So, try to chew on Franchise Versus Online Marketing from all sides and settle on your stand so that you go after a particular path to entrepreneurial triumph.
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Franchise Marketing Systems Implementation
The perpetual question on every franchisor's mind today is how do I keep generating good quality leads for franchise sales in this economy? When the going gets tough, the franchisor needs to get creative. The great thing about franchise marketing is that it is very targeted and specific. When was the last time you saw a Super Bowl Ad marketing for new franchisees? It's just not that likely. The reason is simple, the consumer advertising we see every day is expensive because of the reach and coverage. It is worthwhile for a company to advertise for car insurance when almost anyone who sees the TV commercial could be a potential client. That is not the case when advertising for a franchisee, the franchisee is a clearly defined candidate. The demographics have hopefully been defined ahead of time, the areas of interest are predetermined, the capital requirements and all other attributes are clearly defined. Thus, the advertising is much more focused and generally speaking less expensive.
The different avenues that franchisors use for franchise marketing run the gambit. The Internet of course is the most widely used medium, about 74% of all franchise leads today come from the web. Print Media can be effective based on the readership and specificity of a publication. Direct Mailings can work in some instances as well as Email Marketing Campaigns. Tradeshows are the most showy and grand of the marketing mediums for franchise lead generation and can also be a wonderful way to market a franchise. When it comes down to it there are a lot of avenues...but how does a franchisor know where to spend their ad budget? How do they determine where they will get the most "bang for their buck"? There are several keys that my firm has lived by when it comes to franchise marketing, if these key issues are clearly and completely defined and addressed, the franchise marketing process can be a lot of fun and generate great leads. If these key points are ignored or only briefly addressed, the franchise marketing process can drive a franchisor mad!
1. Define your Buyer. Have you ever heard the phrase, "Ready, Fire, Aim!" It sounds funny, that's because it doesn't make sense! The first goal of the franchise marketing effort should be to clearly define the buyer. I don't mean "salesperson with a desire to succeed".....I mean, "Female, ages 28-37, Midwest and Southeastern US, Household income between $75k-100k, work experience with kitchen products, married, preferably with children." We want specifics, down to every last detail. Once we completely figure out who this franchisee is, then we can more effectively plan our marketing.
2. Establish franchise sales goals. Clearly identify the marketing approach. Start first with how many franchises you plan on selling into the system within the next 6 months and year. Don't plan much further than that, because beyond that point you will most likely have to redo this plan based on then current circumstances. Once we have the goals set, we then can back out of that equation. Typically we are looking at around 1000 qualified leads for every 50-100 meetings with prospective franchisees. From those meetings the closing percentage is typically around 5%. So if we determine that we would like 5 franchises to open during the first 12 months of rolling out the franchise, we need to plan on generating 1000 leads during those first 12 months. The beauty of franchise marketing is that it is very measurable and much easier to track then consumer marketing...we can actually tell how effective it is!
3. Determine the advertising mediums. Different buyers can be reached via different advertising avenues. In some franchises all of the marketing can be done over the Internet, in others the marketing has to be done through direct mailers to specified candidates....like doctors in the case of a rapid care facility. Outline the pros and cons of each medium and establish the most effective based on the cost. This is where the importance of the defined franchise buyer comes through.
4. Establish the Budget. The average cost per lead on the Internet is around $30, the average cost from a tradeshow can be as much as $200 when factoring in travel, time, booth set up and other costs. So take into account some kind of an average cost based on the advertising venues you have determined will be most effective at reaching the target audience. For those thousand leads you may need $10,000 in advertising dollars for that first year to hit the 5 franchises sold.
5. Create the Collateral materials. A Franchise is a big investment for most franchisees, in fact for many of the buyers it is literally everything they have. The franchise offering should look extremely professional and really has to be buttoned up. This means that the brochure should be top quality, there should be a sales video to present to the buyer what the business entails and helps create excitement in the franchise. Pamphlets and handouts should be put together. All of this built around creating value in the business offering, not the product or service that the business offers. The overall theme should be "Mr. or Mrs. Franchisee, you can make a great living doing this, and have fun while you're at it." Franchise buyers fall in love with franchise concepts because they envision themselves running a business doing what the franchisor does. The collateral materials should be the vehicle that sparks that interest in the franchisee's mind.
6. Put together a comprehensive application form. There should be two forms in the end...one that the franchisee fills out initially to give the franchisor initial information from which the franchisor can make a decision if they want to follow up with the prospect any further. This should be basic information that the franchisor should know up front as soon as possible in the sales process, like how much capital do you have to invest! The second form will go into much more detail and would be sent with the brochure and information packet. This form should go into work history and personal background, so that the franchisor can really get to know who this prospect is and what they are all about.
7. Execution. Franchise marketing is like all advertising and marketing, it isn't a science, although it is much closer to one than consumer marketing, it still varies a great deal in its effectiveness and results. Some times, just when things are getting to the point where a franchisor is thinking they should throw in the towel and call it quits is when they really should do some MORE advertising! It takes consistency. The franchise buyers can be fickle, lots of time it has nothing to do with the franchise offering or the marketing, but rather with the franchisees life and circumstances. They do come back and look again, we want to be there when that prospect makes the buying decision.
8. Excellent Follow Up. Great franchisors have wonderful salesmanship in the sales process. Leads should be followed up with immediately upon contact. Phone calls are important and there should be high frequency between calls until a contact is made. The franchise sales process isn't rocket science, it just takes hard work and good planning.
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Using laminated joinery components and a steel base, the designers developed the unit as a high quality permanent FSU that would be robust in store. Security was also added to the testing product.
Our design team used simplistic bold shapes to create a stand-out design. The main circle provides a large focal area for testing and reading about the product. This visual mechanism draws consumers in to the unit.
Experienced joinery staff formed and laminated the curved shapes, bonding the finished components to a steel skeleton. Graphic panels were digitally printed in-house. We also added an inset acrylic mirror for viewing the headphones whilst being worn.
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Facebook is testing a new feature for its Messenger app that will let you turn sound clips into text messages.
The new feature will let you send voice messages to your contacts in Messenger, with the transcribed text displayed below.
According to David Marcus, Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, the new feature will be rolled out to a select few users for testing and if successful will be made available for all Facebook Messenger users.
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Nepal government declares three days of mourning after deadly quake
As the search for survivors continues, Nepal's government has declared three days of mourning. More than 4,000 people died in the massive earthquake at the weekend, with eight million affected across the region.
Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam, said on Tuesday that the government in Kathmandu was going through "a difficult time in dealing with the crisis, in terms of its limited resources."
"We were not prepared for a disaster of this scale," Gautam said.
"We do not have enough resources and will need more time to reach out to everyone."
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In a bid to keep nation's tax laws in conformity with changing times, the Income Tax Department has created a permanent mechanism for seeking inputs from its officers for changes required in the direct tax regulations.
To begin with, the I-T Department has asked officials to provide suggestions for legislative changes in the direct tax laws.
An exclusive email id has been created and officials of the department have been instructed to provide inputs through the year without waiting for beginning of the annual budget exercise.
Traditionally, changes in the laws pertaining to direct tax, which covers income tax for individuals and corporates, are done in the Union Budget presented by the finance minister in end February every year.
Now to keep pace with the changing economic scenario that has brought to fore a host of complex tax issues like transfer pricing cases, the Income Tax Department wants to keep the law updated.
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IS addiction a disease, a behavioural disorder, a moral failing or something else again?
If it is a disease, it should be treated as such by doctors, other health professionals and the community. If not, individuals should be encouraged to sort themselves out in other ways, or even be imprisoned according to some.
All these approaches have been adopted in various parts of the world with varying results. What do the experts think?
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) grappled with this problem for 5 years before releasing its new definition of addiction, which has stimulated interest from around the world with commentaries in The Lancet, Time and elsewhere.
ASAM proposes that addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. It is a chronic relapsing and remitting disorder that manifests in continuing use of substances or alcohol despite accumulating harm to the individual and to others.
Behavioural addictions such as disordered gambling are now included within this definition. A bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model is proposed, recognising the breadth of influences on drug-using behaviour beyond the direct effect of a substance or a behaviour on brain reward centres.
Addiction neuroscience has made many advances that support this "disease" concept. Addictive substances affect the reward structures of the brain in both experimental animal models and humans, such that motivational hierarchies are altered and addictive behaviours supplant healthy self-care-related behaviours.
The frontal cortex of the brain and underlying white matter connections between the frontal cortex and circuits of reward, motivation and memory are fundamental in the altered impulse control, judgement and dysfunctional pursuit of rewards seen in addiction.
This addiction disease concept facilitates a medical approach to management, including the need for quality evidence to support clinical interventions and it encourages engagement of medical professionals in this field.
Acceptance of the disease model can also reduce the stigma of the disorders. Specific neurobiological abnormalities have been identified such as certain dopamine receptors in the reward system and these are targets for therapeutic intervention.
However, the limitations of the disease concept are many. Neither the destigmatisation of patients nor the foreshadowed specific treatments have yet emerged. Patients who believe they are biologically "destined" to suffer from addiction may lose hope and abandon efforts to regain control over their lifestyle.
The antecedents of substance abuse include disadvantage and abuse in early life and the level of use is related to price, availability and local culture, all of which require broad social policy responses over and above treatment of individuals with established addictions.
Most importantly, the majority of harms related to substance abuse are found among the many people with intermittent or moderate levels of use rather than the smaller number with addiction. In the case of alcohol, the majority of harm is the result of episodic heavy drinking or regular drinking at moderately increased but non-addictive levels. Similarly, the majority of hepatitis C virus transmission from injecting drug use occurs in irregular injectors rather than daily injectors.
The most effective approaches to address alcohol- and tobacco-related harms have come from a range of public health approaches such as limiting access via restricted licensing of distribution and establishing a minimum legal age of consumption and raising the price via taxation.
The addiction disease concept usefully describes the more severely affected people who are typically disabled by their disorder. For these individuals, there are moderately effective evidence-based treatments.
Given the psychosocial influences on drug use behaviour, it remains arguable that the biological approach will ever yield the highly effective treatments that our patients need.
Professor Paul Haber is the medical director of drug health services at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the discipline of addiction medicine at the University of Sydney.
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if the following means anything to you, then you may enjoy Encapsulation, Inheritance and the Platypus effect:
""You have your 'isa' hierarchy all thought out – let's say you have a "mammals" class and a "reptiles" class and so on – and you start to implement it, and along comes a platypus, a fur-bearing, egg-laying, duck-billed creature, which doesn't appear to fit in any of the classifications you've created. So what you often end up having to do is rethink your entire hierarchy, refactoring into a different set of basic categories, or maintaining several categorizations along different axes. A lot of your thinking ends up getting thrown out, as well as any implementation you've done up to that point.""
i guess this is just another way to describe what i think peterme is getting at when he talks about the 'calculus of information' [ e.g. – see april 13th post] – but from a completely different domain:
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catalog it typically forces it into a lowest-common-denominator structure that serves no one by trying to serve everyone. This is why I go on about basic-level categories and heaps of metadata–by reducing information to its most basic level, we can build it back up on-the-fly depending on the user's context."


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Voter registration drives aimed at young people are turning 18-to 24-year-olds into an important variable in the presidential election, especially in decisive battleground states such as Michigan — where nearly 100,000 young people have registered in recent months — and Wisconsin, where the numbers are even higher.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
They are the nation's newest swing voters, with polls showing their support for the major candidates has vacillated in recent months. A Harvard University poll found that, in a five-month period, 19 percent of young potential voters changed their minds about whom they'd support.
"It's a big population of fluid voters, and they're largely unknown," says Ivan Frishberg, outreach and communications coordinator for the nonprofit New Voters Project, which has registered tens of thousands of young people across the country.
Take Kristin Wilson, a 23-year-old in Perrysburg, Ohio, and her 18-year-old sister, Kellyn, a freshman at Ohio State University. Both have registered to vote, but neither identifies as Republican or Democrat and both are taking their time deciding who to vote for.
"I think people underestimate people our age," Kellyn says. "And they shouldn't."
The candidates have made some attempts to reach out to college students and other young people. The Bush campaign has a Web log that includes "Barbara and Jenna's journal," detailing the president's daughters' campaign exploits. Democrat John Kerry, who made a campus tour last spring, recently appeared on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
And the political parties are using volunteers and paid canvassers to register young voters and get them to the polls. But the attempts can sometimes fall flat.
"Some of it feels very awkward to young people — like the candidates are trying too hard," says Jane Eisner, author of the new book "Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy."
Other times, young people feel ignored, says Stephen Lucas, a high school junior in Leechburg, Pa.
"I haven't heard any serious talk about college tuition, or even people our age mentioned," says Lucas, who works with a group called Freedom's Answer to get upperclassmen interested in voting.
It's still anybody's guess how many young people have registered in his state, another thought to be a toss-up. Michigan is one of the few that has compiled registration numbers by age.
Clear signs in other states
Officials in several other battleground states — New Mexico, Ohio and Florida among them — see clear signs that more young people are interested in this election. And some election experts believe that polls of "likely voters" often miss young people because the population is so mobile.
In Wisconsin, the New Voters Project claims to have registered more than 109,000 young people — numbers election officials say they have "no reason to doubt."
"It's been an incredible undertaking," says Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the State Board of Elections in Wisconsin, a state Al Gore won by less than 6,000 votes in 2000.
Officials at Rock the Vote — a nationwide campaign aimed at young people — say they expect registration numbers to surge as deadlines in many states approach. In the first two weeks of September alone, more than 163,000 people filled out and downloaded registration forms from Rock the Vote's Web site. Hans Riemer, the organization's Washington, D.C., director, says that in the past week as many as 20,000 people a day used the site to register.
At that rate, he says Rock the Vote's registration numbers may surpass those from 1992 — a year when young voter turnout topped 50 percent for the first and only time since 1972.
One political scientist says he's particularly interested to see what happens this time in Minnesota, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, where voters can register on Election Day. Data has shown that young people are particularly likely to take advantage of same-day registration.
'Door open for a surprising outcome'
"It leaves the door open for a surprising outcome," says Donald Green, a political scientist at Yale University and co-author of "Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout."
Stephanie Camargo, a recent graduate of the University of Florida who opted not to vote in 2000, says she'll be one of those young people who gets to the polls Nov. 2. She has many motivators — from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the war in Iraq (where she has a cousin fighting), to peers who are still looking for jobs.
"Before I thought of politics as a game," says Camargo, 22, who's registered in Broward County, Fla. "Now I realize you have to play the game if you want to make a difference."
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The Craftsman style places an emphasis on functional aesthetics and natural materials. This style follows the belief that harmonizing with the natural surroundings of the home stimulates artistic and intellectual growth.
These 3 great Craftsman Bungalows are currently for sale in LA:
I saw 9 homes yesterday and these 3 stood out! Here is what you can get in Hollywood, Larchmont and Jefferson Park.
You should know Gower can be a very busy street but this is nicely set back with a fence. It is about 5 min car ride north of Larchmont Village.This home had a slightly strange layout and needs a little work. I would have listed it under $1M.
From the MLS: Hidden behind a wood gate and lush hedges sits this beautiful 1920 Bungalow with 2 BD + Office, 2 BA in the best part of Hollywood! Zoned LAR3 with great development potential, the current home is move-in condition and features a large front porch, beautiful hardwood floors throughout, an expansive living room with fireplace, entertainer's open floor plan and large restored original windows for abundant natural light. The eat-in kitchen has updated quartz counter tops, Douglas Fir original hardwood floors and a charming built-in breakfast area. Incredible master en-suite with attached office and freshly tiled bath. The huge, private grassy backyard features a converted garage and room for a pool. Steps to Columbia Square, Sugar Fish & The Arclight. Enjoy the existing home, add on or build! How life in Hollywood was meant to be!
This block is fantastic! It is at the edge of Larchmont and Windsor Square south of Beverly but feels quiet and uniform. The lighting yesterday after the rain made this house stand out. The landsaping in the front and back is fab and my favorite feature may be the skylight in the kitchen. This one will go fast over asking. 2 bedrooms on title.
From the MLS: Charming three bedroom home conveniently located in the heart of Larchmont Village – just minutes to Koreatown restaurants, hiking trails in the Hollywood Hills, and Downtown L.A.'s arts scene. This beautiful home has tons of character including original hardwood floors, gorgeous pocket doors, and a welcoming front porch to relax on. The kitchen touts amazing high ceilings and a skylight that allows natural light to flood in. A bright sun room off the kitchen offers tranquil views of the back yard garden. Central AC/Heat and tankless water heater. An absolute treasure in the heart of Los Angeles!
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Probably my favorite of all 3. Amazing curb appeal, nice block. Designer inside – really fantastic details and lighting. This house is so cozy with a perfect porch and guest house. It is just south of the 10 freeway about 12 minutes from Hancock Park. This one will go for over asking this week, I am sure! Again, beautiful landscaping.
From the MLS: Located on the most coveted street in the very hot Jefferson Park HPOZ, this C.L. Bowes 1909 3 bed 2 ba Craftsman home has been beautifully restored & updated by award winning designer Joshua Cain of Saxony Design Build. The home boasts original leaded glass windows, firepl. w/ antique mantle, new oak flrs, classic moulding, window casings & period fixtures. Updates include new HVAC w/ hydronic system, tankless w.h., electrical & plumbing. The glorious master suite has alder wood beams & doors, handmade subway tiles, dbl sinks & lg shower. The updated kitchen has Silestone quartz counters, GE vintage inspired appliances, farm sink & vintage tile fls. Access the inviting deck from either the home office or 3rd bdm. If this home was not perfect enough, located in the private landscaped backyard is a fabulous guesthouse w/ kitch, ba, wa/dryer & HVAC – perfect for in-laws or friends! Located in The West Adam's District, Curbed LA's Neighborhood of the year! This is city living at its best!
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Jun 2017 Nordic Europe welcomes the ETN Annual Meeting 2017
Year 2017 in eCustoms is centred on the deep reflection on UCC feasibility, EU-wide and according to a commonly agreed plan. The analysis of alternative deployment approaches, and multi-party collaboration, are key to assure effective customs renovation in Europe. Two leading Nordic ETN Members, EMMA Systems and KGH Customs Services, co-hosted the ETN Annual 2017 titled eCustoms On the Go!.
The Nordic region is a great mirror to look at in electronic customs; innovative and cooperative, they are effectively deploying processes and systems to facilitate cross-border trade. The Union Customs Code and its implementation challenges in Europe, and the great Nordic sense of multi-party dialogue for effective deployment, made easy the selection of the core theme and location for the ETN Annual 2017.
With the co-support of the two Nordic-based ETN Members (EMMA Systems and KGH Customs Services), this new Annual Meeting was hosted at the Holmenkollen Park in Oslo, 1+2 June 2017. Almost 50 attendants this year; during two intensive days the ETN members and affiliates were actively analysing their new challenges in service provision, in a double perspective:
- Public policy making: Mr. Kenneth Persson, Director of EU Affaires and International Cooperation at the Swedish Customs, was a principal speaker. His know-how surpasses the Nordic region, as expert participating at the most relevant fora on European eCustoms innovation, he thoroughly explained on trans-National projects and how UCC deployment is being re-shaped EU-wide.
- Private service provision: two significant traders explained their sector needs in electronic Customs, their expectations on IT&C solutions, thus the response needed from the service providers (the ETNers). These external guests were DHL Express Norway, and Bring the Norwegian Postal Services.
The ETN members and affiliates had the chance to actively listen, to gather information and to make personal reflections, to professionally share knowledge on key topics. The first meeting day was completed with a guru intervention by Lars Karlsson, showing his expert views and projections, and provoking highly interesting dialogue. And the second day, Bring invited the ETN internal and external guests to a professional visit to the new facilities of the Norwegian Postal Services.
The EurTradeNet-ETN alliance keeps growing and is in constant search for complementary expertise to add to its unique professional network. Please see our current ETN knowledge map. Members
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A Response to the Colorado Undergrad
Wes Morriston, who retired this past summer after 42 years as a member of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado, has written a letter to the editor responding to the column by alumna Allison Blakeney (previously) asserting that the department has a "rape culture."
There are several very basic things your readers need to know. No one in the department has ever been accused of rape, or of being a passive bystander to a rape, or of promoting or excusing or otherwise winking at rape. No one in the department has ever suggested that a woman with a sexually promiscuous past cannot be raped, or that a woman who has consented once has given her consent in perpetuity.
There has been one (and only one) allegation of sexual assault. The accused person was not a professor, and there were no bystanders in the case of this particular incident.
I cannot see how any fair-minded person could think this adds up to a "rape culture."


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Rockie burned up the movie screen and I was turnin seventeen
Tie-dyed shirts and Levis jean, lookin cool at the Dairy Queen
Tryin to impress a young woman in her Sunday dress
I work a forty hour week and I earn my keep
And I try to walk proud and tall
I keep my nose to the ground, I don't get behind
And I don't back up at all
Work, work all week long
Punchin' that clock from dusk till dawn.
Countin' the days till Friday night
That's when all the conditions are right.
For a good time
Satellite communications
Long distance
Internet relations
The world's
A little faster every day
I know it's all
Well and good
I wish I could back up and start all over
Cause now I'd know better the best way to love her
The words I would tell her the time I would give her
If Jesus walked the world today, Hed probably be a Hillbilly
Common man of men and the King of many
Hed lay his hands on his brother man, save us all from the sinnin
What'll it be he asked,
What do you need tonight
Something cold to drown the fire,
Something hot to stir one up
I'll make it simple I said,
Laid back in Low Key, you and me on that white powered beach
Side by side with the sand and the sea, laid back in Low Key
Look at me
And tell me
You don't love me
Take my hand and say
It can't be
Kiss me once and just
Before you walk away
Listen first to what
It happens everytime I think about the reasons why I sittin here alone at night at night and not with you
(feat. Martina McBride)
I shaved my face and combed my hair, put on a new pair of underwear
And sat on the porch with my Labrador like a hundred other times before
I'm usually strong
Keep love all away
Wall around my heart
So it won't have to brave
But you take me some place that I've never been
Why did she have to go
So young I just don't know why
Things happen half the time
Without reason without rhyme
Lovely, sweet young woman
Born the middle son of a farmer
And a small town Southern man
Like his daddy's daddy before him
Brought up workin' on the land
Fell in love with a small town woman
Theres an old hardwood tree starin through the glass at me
Its been there since eighty-five, sometimes I think it reads my mind
Tonight it doesn't feel like it did last night
I'm feeling warm if inside
Since I saw your face
Since I looked in your eyes
There's a change in this place


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Lots of little updates... -- Posted by Pete on December 13, 2003 (3:18AM EST)

I have reformatted and uploaded about half of the random miscellaneous sections that used to be in the site. I'm working on getting all of the old content back up with the new format...then I'll go through and edit it and improve it. The biggest, most important section, The Reviews...they're gonna be last to be put back up, after everything else on the site is nice and neat. There's so much to do, but I'm working quite diligently here. This is finals week at College, and I have two big papers to write (for Monday and Wednesday) and a big final on Tuesday. Other than that, I'm off scott free until the end of January! So...Pete's QBASIC Site will undoubtedly be making its grand reopening by then. Hopefully on January 1st...we'll see.

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This happened to me again today.
06/06/15 You know the Walgreens commercials with the voice of John Corbett, the D.J. from Northern Exposure? He's always saying that "Walgreen's is at the corner of happy and healthy." I'd like them to update the commercial to say, "Walgreen's is at the corner of happy, healthy, and blackmail."
You often hear the line in movies, "Blackmail is an ugly word." Yesterday it got ugly for me right in front of a Walgreens and Josh Corbett was not there to talk me down with his soothing voice. I'm still healthy, but I was not happy. I was blackmailed at an intersection by firefighters. Yes, those courageous men and women who saves lives and homes essentially extorted money from me.
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Switching Themes
It's not that I don't like the previous one. I just like to have a fresh start.
I need that fresh start because I have once again decided to blog more often here. Most of them would just be random thoughts I'd like to jot down from time to time.
I am also in no way an expert in themes and graphic design. In fact, this theme is just a free one I got from this site.
Let me know if you find some errors that need fixing (Like the stretched image on the front page -- if you know how to fix that let me know. It doesn't bother me just yet).
What do you think of this theme by the way? Let me know in the comments.


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Light up your nights and listen to good music at the same time!
Make your nights feel and look better with the Elecstars LED Touch Bedside Lamp. The lamp also has a speaker function where in you can connect your mobile phones or gadgets via Bluetooth. This allows you to listen to music or even answer your calls hands free. The Elecstars LED Touch Bedside Lamp also has available ports auxiliary ports to directly plug in your music players such as iPods. The Bluetooth LED light is lit when your device is already connected.
The speaker also has a Micro SD card port to which you can just plug in your TF cards. So if you have existing SD cards with your favorite selection of songs in it, then you don't have to use its Bluetooth features anymore.
Using it as a night lamp also gives you different options to choose from, it has 2 modes that will determine whether you wanted a white light or the multicolored one. The first mode offers 3 brightness levels which can be done by just simply touching the top portion of the lamp. On the other hand, the colored lights mode can be achieved by doing a 2 second touch on the top as well. This includes 6 colors that include red, blue, green, purple, pink and yellow.
The Elecstars LED Touch Bedside Lamp uses 1800MA battery. When fully charged, the lamp can stay lit for about 10 hours which is the same for music playing. When power of the lamp is low, you will hear a voice prompt. With that said, its always better to charge the lamp if you plan to use it overnight during your sleep as you might get surprised when you hear the voice prompt.
This particular product is not only great for personal use but also as a great birthday gift idea for your loved ones. If you are looking for a nice and useful birthday gift for men, this will surely count as most of them would love to have its speaker features. Although I got these items for my kids, as they love to have a night lamp, I was so sure that my husband was jealous that he didn't get one.
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Coach McCarthy Says Mike Neal Has Best Practice of Camp
Often injured Mike Neal appears to be getting closer to making his pre-season debut.
McCarthy-I think Mike Neal had his best practice today of training camp. #Packers — Green Bay Packers (@Packers) August 14, 2013
Neal has spent time practicing at outside linebacker as opposed to his usual position of defensive end. Should Neal play on Saturday night, it will be interesting to see where he spends the majority of his snaps and how comfortable he looks off the line.


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Executive Vice President - Loan Operations
- Recruiter
- Citco
- Location
- Dublin, Dublin City Centre
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 22 Oct 2019
- Closes
- 07 Nov 2019
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- CITCO Technology Management
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- Job role
- Finance director
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
Job Title: Executive Vice President - Loan Operations
About Citco
Since the 1940s Citco has provided specialist financial services to alternative investment funds, investors, multinationals and private clients worldwide. With over 6,000 employees in 45 countries we pioneer innovative solutions that meet our clients' evolving needs, and deliver exceptional service.
Our continuous investment in learning means our people are among the best in the industry. Our corporate social responsibility programs provide meaningful and fulfilling work in the community.
A career at Citco isn't just a job - it's an opportunity to excel in an environment that genuinely supports your personal and professional development.
About the role:
Your role will encompass the oversight of all facets of Loan Operations for a variety of complex hedge funds and private equity firms
Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Work with Global Director to develop EMEA strategy for Loan Operations
- Manage client relationships of Citco Loan clients group based in EU region
- Manage and support rollout of global Bank Loan procedures
- Work with Director on profitability model for department
- Plan, schedule and manage the daily Bank Loan workflows of all client relationships
- Participate in marketing effort and presentations to existing and prospective clients
- Liaise with clients regarding SLAs and deadlines, ensuring delivery in an accurate and timely manner
- Actively work with multiple departments across the firm to drive results and deliverables
- Act as an escalation contact for clients
- Develop, adhere and maintain targets concerning staffing: production and productivity
- Ensure all staff are appropriately trained and conduct interviews and performance evaluations
- Liaise and coordinate with Integration Team on onboarding of new loan clients
- Escalation of potential operational risks
- Participate in and lead projects that may be defined from time to time in connection with the continuing expansion and evolution of the business
- Participate in managerial functions in conjunction with the Director
- Any other functions required as part of the business of the Company, and reporting to the Director
Qualifications and Experience:
- 10-15+ Years in Financial Services with a primary focus on Bank Loans
- Product knowledge: Primary & Secondary Syndicated Bank Loans (Par & Distressed) as well as some experience with privately negotiated loans and structured products
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- Significant management and leadership experience
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South Sudan, Welcome to Google Maps
South Sudan has officially existed as an independent country since July 9. Now it also exists on Google Maps.
The absence of South Sudan on Google Maps, and the majority of Internet maps, has frustrated citizens of the new country. As early as July 14, Google answered questions about the missing border with assurances that it was in the process of making the update.
"That's nice," John Tanza Mabusu, a broadcast journalist who fled Sudan in 1991 and now lives in Washington, D.C., told Mashable 47 days after South Sudan became a country. "But I would still argue that it's too late to start talking about that because since the 9th of July, if they were serious, we would have seen the signs of their work."
Mabusu started a Change.org petition urging Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and National Geographic to update their maps. The petition collected more than 1,600 signatures.
Google is the first of those companies to update its maps. Spokespeople from Yahoo and Mapquest have pointed to map data providers such as NAVTEQ, which has said that it is "currently assessing plans" and cited time-consuming detailed planning.
"I'm hoping that now that Google has officially recognized South Sudan on their maps, the other major online mapping services will quickly follow suit," Mabusu said in a statement. "The people of South Sudan fought long and hard for their independence and suffered greatly. It's time these maps reflect their efforts and catch up."


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Sexting, fire risk and first aid to be covered at safety workshops for young people
Valuable safety lessons will be taught to Norfolk's primary school children as part of a series of interactive workshops which are touring the county.
Crucial Crew has been running in Norfolk for more than a decade and welcomes year-six pupils from schools across the county.
The idea is to give children advice on how to stay safe at home, in the community and online, with sessions designed to be fun and interactive.
This year includes topics such as fire safety, household emergencies, sexting, seaside safety, healthy relationships, alcohol and drug awareness, road safety and first aid.
The benefits have been life-changing in some cases, with one participant later witnessing an electrocution and knowing what to do to keep the casualty safe until help arrived.
This year's project, which involves more than 6,000 children, starts next week for the Breckland area.
From March 5 to 8, 31 schools have signed up to attend including Bawdeswell, Old Buckenham, Mattishall, Attleborough, Scarning, Weeting, Necton, Great Ellingham and Beeston primary schools.
The venue, Letton Hall Christian Conference Centre, has been donated for free and rotary clubs are supporting the event by providing volunteers.
Chairman of Norfolk County Council's communities committee, councillor Margaret Dewsbury, said: "Aside from transport costs met by the school or parents, the project is offered completely free to all year six pupils in Norfolk.
"It helps to educate young people about the different safety risks in an engaging and memorable way and the feedback from schools has been very positive.
"As funding has diminished, the scheme has relied on local support, sponsorship, donations and volunteers to allow it to continue and we are delighted that it is able to run again this year."
Other venues include King's Lynn North fire station between April 23 and 27, The Space in Norwich from May 21 to 25 and Easton College from July 2 to 6.
North Norfolk pupils will be able to take part at Gresham's Prep School in Holt between October 15 and 17, while Crucial Crew will come to Great Yarmouth's Haven Holiday Park between November 12 and 16.
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19 August 2014
Amid all the horrors being perpetrated by the Islamic State & Co in Iraq, Syria, Africa and who knows where, and the demonstrations of Anti-Israel/Jewish hatred in major cities worldwide, the sudden death of star comedian and actor Robin Williams (obm) focussed the mourning of thousands worldwide on this one tragic death.
Robin Williams was born an Episcopalian in Chicago, but his humor often had a definite Jewish flair and was sprinkled with Yiddish terms. He occasionally referred to himself as "an honorary Jew."
Comment by Rabbi Stewart Weiss – Aish.com
"What strikes me today is the lesson to be learned from Williams' life – and death – here in Israel. In a sense, we, too, live a "bi-polar" existence. We as a nation, as a People, are constantly pulled between the extreme poles of ecstasy and tragedy. We are either celebrating wonders and miracles, or grieving over the loss of our loved ones. We create a great country, from the ashes of the Holocaust, and then we are immediately filled with anxiety and worry over the existential threats emanating from our hostile neighbors.
We win wars, thank God, against all the odds, but then we must agonize over the aftermath of every conflict. Each cause for celebration is tempered by a warning against over-confidence, while every dark cloud contains its own silver lining. Even our calendar echoes this duality, as our many joyous holidays are interspersed with no less than six fast days, reminding us that we are never too far from some ominous note – or some reason to rejoice.
Our latest, ongoing war has injected some measure of depression into our populace, as we worry where all this is going, and wonder aloud what the solution is to a seemingly insoluble predicament. Suicide is not an option. We have weathered every storm throughout our history and, with God's help, we will successfully navigate this latest crisis as well and emerge to even greater glory.
Robin, fly upon your way, find shelter in some Heavenly nest. As the Talmud says, one who makes others smile and laugh is secured a place in the World to Come. And we, too, will seek our own shelter, nestled in the wings of the Almighty and in the strength and security of His people and His Land of Israel, whose greatest moments are yet to come.
Ethics of the Fathers (2:4) quotes Hillel who said:
"Do not judge another until you have stood in his place."
Since it is impossible to stand in another person's place, to be them, to have their baggage or to live their struggles, we can never judge another. Instead, we should be kind, sensitive, supportive and understanding of everyone around us.
Ian Maclaren, a 19th century Scottish author and Theologian said it well: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Memorable quote by Past Prime Minister Golda Meir (obm)
WAR – SHMOR! A little humor helps!
Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer: [in control room] Good Morning, Vietnam!
In Saigon today, according to official sources, nothing actually happened. One thing that didn't officially happen was a bomb didn't officially explode at 1430 hours, unofficially destroying Jimmy Wah's cafe. Three men were unofficially wounded, the fire department responded, which we believe to be unofficial at this present moment…
* A young Israeli was drafted into the IDF – Israel Defense Force. His father gave him advice: "Don't rely on miracles my son. Recite a few verses of Tehillim (Psalms) before going into battle and you will be safe."
Looking back… The Six-Day War in 1967
- In New York, a Jewish paper the Forverts, disgusted with the UN's dallying at the height of the crisis, did a little transposing… Reading from right to left, as in Hebrew, the UN was changed to "NU?"
Have also heard…UNnecessary, UNreliable, UNdesirable…
- Needless to point out, the lightning speed with which the Israeli army and air force clobbered the several opposing armies surprised the Egyptians. But they are a practical people. After the first day of the war the Cairo-Hilton reportedly began taking reservations for Bar-Mitzvahs.
* Even Frank Sinatra got into the act, a few days into the war he quipped at a banquet in Hollywood , "Soon I'll be going to Israel to see the pyramids."
- Even the Soviet Union was taken aback by the swift advance. Russia airlifted 200 tanks to Syria, each equipped with back-up lights and white surrender flags.
- True story… an Israeli soldier came upon a battered, burned-out Egyptian tank somewhere in the Gaza Strip. He left a sign on it… "OIL AND CHICKEN SOUP DON'T MIX!"
Historically, Jews have reserved their adulation and respect for the intellectual, the scholar, the teacher, the scientist, the humanitarian, but in the 1967 war the bravery and military genius of Ariel Sharon won him the acclaim of "Lion" Ariyeh.
Moshe Dayan, the brilliant and charismatic Israeli Minister of Defense, was much in the news and an object of admiring humor. "Mighty Moe" once quipped, "The only revenge I will take on the captured Egyptian soldiers will be to make them eat the same food our boys have to eat."
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