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Courses BA Degree in Comparative American Studies, Class 2, Division 1; Sub-editing; Editor As Manager; Copyright & Law For Journalists; Covers Workshops; Story Structure; Adult Literacy Teaching Skills DTP:
BA Degree in Comparative American Studies, Class 2, Division 1;
Sub-editing; Editor As Manager; Copyright & Law For Journalists;
Covers Workshops; Story Structure; Adult Literacy Teaching
DTP: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress
Word Processing: Microsoft Word & Office
Platforms: Content Station, Censhare
Social Media: LinkedIn, WordPress, Facebook, Myspace
Employment History
June 2013 – Present: Freelance media journalist
Sub-editor: Closer (Bauer Media); BBC TopGear (BBC Worldwide/Immediate Media Company); Boat International (Boat International Media Ltd); How To Spend It (FT/Pearson); Amateur Photographer, Chat, Country Life, Pick Me Up!, Shooting Gazette, Shooting Times, Soaplife, Sporting Gun, TV&Satellite Week, TV Easy, TVTimes, Uncut [Neil Young one-shot], What's On TV, Woman, Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly (Future/TI Media); Best, Inside Soap, Prima, Real People, Reveal (Hearst); The Lady (The Lady Limited); New!, OK!, Star, TV Pick, Very (Northern & Shell); Cedar Communications Ltd (commercial content agency); INDEX magazines, Kent.
Contributor: Country Music, Vintage Rock (Anthem, both main mag and Special Editions); Yours Retro (Bauer Media); Kultguy's Keep movie review website; TV Pick (Northern & Shell); Jazz Journal, Shindig!; Maverick
April 2004 – June 2013: Sub-editor, TV & Satellite Week (IPC Media)
Duties: Sub-editing, proofreading and rewriting feature articles and listings, writing
and subbing internet blogs, liaising with internal departments (Art, Features, Ads, Production), programme providers and other external contacts, responsibility for flatplans and features lists.
April 1999 – April 2004: Freelance Sub-editor
Airline Business, Daily Express Saturday and S magazines, Daily Mail Weekend magazine, Flight International, fono, How To Spend It (FT/Pearson), Lloyds List, Media Week, Melody Maker, Music Business International, Music Week, NME, TV & Satellite Week, TV Choice, TV Quick, TV Times, What's On TV.
Contributor: Radio 2 Country Music website, BOL music website, Country Music International, Folk Roots, Guitar & Bass, Maverick, Record Collector, TV & Satellite Week, What's On TV Puzzles Magazine.
July 1996 – April 1999: Editor, Country Music International,
Line Dance Party CD & Magazine and associated one-shots.
Duties: Issue planning and budgetary control, liaising with distributors, promotion of publications through print and broadcast media, commissioning, writing and subbing features, organising photo shoots, liaising with record labels management and media (regular promotional appearances on TV & Radio), picture research, administration of picture archive, liaising with printer/repro house, supervision of staff.
Also Freelance: Writer and reviewer for Folk In Kent, Folk Roots, Guitar & Bass, The Jazz Rag and Rock'n'Reel (now R2); writer and sub-editor for Uproar Games, an interactive website operated by E-Pub Services of Budapest, Hungary.
December 1989 – July 1996: Deputy Editor, Cable Guide
Duties: writing, commissioning and subbing features, conducting interviews,
picture research, administration of picture library and budget, deputising for the editor, supervision of freelancers, liaising with printer/repro house.
Also Freelance: Contributor to Country Music International, Country Music People, news gatherer for Radio Luxembourg and Atlantic 252; Presenter on local radio stations Airport Information Radio (Heathrow & Gatwick) and Raven Sound (Bromley); voice-over work for Crystalvision (commercial ads, corporate video); newsreader for local Cable TV channel United Cable Reports.
July 1989 – December 1989: Freelance journalist
Assistant Editor at Cable Guide (copywriting, subbing, picture research, proofreading, liaising with printer/repro house, Cable TV broadcasters and programme providers);
voice-over work for Crystalvision (commercial ads, corporate video).
December 1985 – December July 1989: Head of production
Bravo (UA Entertainment Programming, now Virgin Media)
Duties: writing and subbing features, press releases and ads, researching pictures and administration of picture archive, liaising with printers/repro house, managing promotional production, liaising with film distributors, regular attendance at trade shows, organisation of tape distribution, administration of video tape library, procuring tape stock, budget control, training/supervising members of staff.
1972 - 1975 Purley High School for Boys
1981 - 1984 University of Warwick, Coventry
1990 - 1991 London College of Printing
Specialist areas
I am an all-round media journalist with more than 25 years of experience in writing and sub-editing across a range of genres including television, music and lifestyle. This includes social media, TV and radio appearances, conducting celebrity interviews, picture research and routine production administration such as flatplanning. I also possess excellent inter-personal and telephone communication skills. Also at: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jerryjourno1, http://jerryjourno58.wordpress.com/, http://about.me/jerryjourno58


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Well, the holiday season is over, but I came across a bunch of left over candy canes the other day. Although my kids would have happily eaten them, I decided that we could use them for really easy science projects – and it was a great way to avoid wasting them. All you need for this experiment is water and candy canes!
I gave every student their own candy cane to experiment with. We have discussed how in science we uses our senses, but we rarely use our sense of taste. Today they were very excited to use this sense. After a few licks of their candy canes, they were given either warm water, or ice cold water. The hotter the water the better, but be careful when working with kids. They then dropped their candy cane into the water.
At first, they just watched to see what was happening. Initially, there didn't seem to be any changes, but student began to notice that the bottom of their cup looked foggy and a bit green or red.
I then handed out stir sticks for students to mix their candy cane and water. Students noticed right away that some of the colour on the candy cane had faded or 'disappeared'.
We talked about the fact that it did not disappear, but rather that it begins to dissolve. Students then began comparing their candy canes with others around them. Students with cold water noticed that their candy cane was still largely the same.
The candy canes in the warm water, however, looked very different! It was dissolving into the warm water. The stripes were gone and they had trouble picking up the candy cane because it was almost fully dissolved.
I then gave students the chance to use their sense of taste again. Everyone wanted to find out where their candy cane had gone, so they tried a few sips of their water. It tasted like a candy cane!
It was a really easy science project to do with kids. The experiment is a great, hands-on, way to introduce concepts such as dissolving and how hot and cold water may look the same, but they behave very differently.


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|Posted by cognitivecomics on September 12, 2009 at 9:41 AM
A local college has referred a student to me to help with graphic novel script writing. Below is my email to the student with advice:
Hi Kris,
The intro to your graphic novel script is well written but the approach is not right ( no approach is wrong in art but for a beginner you should try a far easier approach ).
Think of script writing like this:
Approach 1: youwant to tell a story about NYC so you start from the north end of theisland and walk, zig zag all the way down to the south end ofManhattan, writing everything you see as you go. By the time you are 5minutes into the journey, the reader is wondering where is this leadingand how is it going to end. By the time you are in mid town, your feetare bleeding from walking so far and you are frustrated with the waythings are going so you give up the task.
Approach 2: you want to tell a story about NYC so youstart with a satellite photo of Manhattan. With that you plan to startat the Science Museum on the upper West side and travel down the sideof central park to the theater district on Broadway. After that youplan to take a train cross town and down Lexington to China town whereyou are going to have the best Chinese food of your life!
You get a helicopter and you plot out the journey. You notice allthe important landmarks, famous museums, coffee shops, etc. so you putthat into your plan and you cut out some plans too. You figure you'regoing to have trouble finding the cross town train so you'll ask alovely Chinese girl to help you.
Lastly, you get on your feet with your entire plan and start scripting your journey from the Science museum to China town.
You wrap up the story nicely with a surprise twist where fate has yourun into the Chinese girl who helped give you directions cross town andyou ask her to dinner.
I don't know ANYONE who writes scripts from beginning to end.You want to plot out the main events and then fill in the dialogue/action. Start general and go to specific. Take a bird's eye view of thestory and break down the essential events that move the story forward.Phase 2, break it down even further in things that must be said betweenyour characters. Phase 3, write the action and dialog that ties thelarger pieces together.
Let me know if that helps.
- Don
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Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys wade through the fun hacks of the week. Looks like Google got caught ripping off song lyrics (how they got caught is the hack) and electric cars are getting artificially noisier. We look at 3D Printing directly from used plastic, and building a loom with many hundreds of 3D printed parts. The Sound Blaster 1.0 lives again thanks to some (well-explained) reverse engineered circuitry. Your smartphone is about to get a lot more buttons that work without any extra electronics, and we'll finish things up with brass etching and downloadable nuclear reactor plans.
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the benefits of holistic massage
Receiving regular massage executed with skill and compassion treats more than the aches and pains in your muscles, it also a remedy for stress. Modern life is increasingly fast paced and stressful events are a part of life, but constant stress is harmful, compromising the immune, digestive and reproductive systems. The importance of relaxation cannot be overstated when it comes to health and well-being. The deep relaxation experienced during massage allows the nervous system to calm down, the body to heal itself and the mind to be at peace. In essence harmony is restored.
As a holistic practitioner, I use a wide range of massage techniques. These include Thai and Swedish oil massage, stretches, relaxation work and very deep tissue techniques such as trigger point therapy and myofascial release.
Be good to yourself, your whole self. Body, mind and spirit. Experience massage as a healing art practiced with care and attention to your specific needs. This will not only ease muscle tension, improve circulation but also calm the nerves, still the mind, restore balance and help you sleep better.
I like to be careful about the skincare so, I use organic oils because what you put on your skin ends up in your body. We are absorbing new synthetic chemicals via food, toiletries and the environment.
A selection of my favourite massage oils
Organic Sweet Almond Oil. A light, cold-pressed, skin conditioning oil for all skin types, which helps prevent moisture loss from the skin. Its gentleness makes it a particularly useful oil to use on sensitive or irritated skin. It has a delicate sweet smell obtained from the ripe seeds of the small sweet almond tree.
Organic Soothing Massage Oil. A nourishing and softening blend of oils of almond, avocado and coconut combined with pure essential oils of geranium, bergamot, palmarosa, lavender and cypress to create a soothing, healing and relaxing massage oil.
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By Hope Vernon, 2014-2015 participant
I grew up in the Union of Reform Judaism, I spent every summer at Jewish Camp, and practiced leadership skills in the North American Federation of Temple Youth movement. In this upbringing, I have always felt a strong connection to Judaism and Zionism.
Fast forward to this past summer. I was living in downtown Seattle and went to my first I Stand with Israel Rally. The community was singing Am Israel Chi, I felt the energy of The Jewish Community and once again I felt at home with my people.
Then I reached the edge of the rally, and saw a line of police officers separating the celebratory Pro-Israel Rally and silent Free Palestine protestors on the other side. As I stood in the divide, I realized I didn't really understand these divisions; this situation we were in. What information was I missing? The only way to know the truth is to search and learn, first hand. For me this meant moving to the center of Jerusalem, Musrara on the West side of the Green line. Here, the separation is the line marked by the light rail track, and people aren't just divided for a few hours during a protest and then returning to their lives, these are their lives; and now mine.
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How to Best Calculate Supply Chain Lead Times
Executive Summary
- We cover how to calculate overall supply lead time, customer lead time, supply lead time in inventory.
- This describes how to calculate lead times and overall lead time calculation.
Introduction: What Makes Up the Lead Time?
Lead times are one of the major timing elements within the overall subject of supply chain planning. This article will cover lead time in several dimensions and focus on lead time calculation.
We will start with the lead time definition and discuss the lead time's function in the supply chain. You will learn all of the sub-lead times that constitute the overall lead time.
Lead Time in Supply Chain or Lead Time Supply Chain
The lead time in supply chain or lead-time supply chain relates to lead times specific to supply chain planning and is what when combined to make up the time from when the order is placed until the time the order arrives.
- These are all terms that describe lead times specific to supply chain management.
- Lead times are, of course, also a general term that can apply to non-supply chain topics. For example, a product plan results in calculating a series of lead times for completing various stages of a project, as well as the overall product duration.
Lead times are normally not shown graphically in supply planning systems. However, if they were — they would look something like a project plan. That is, lead times are a sequence of dependent durations with relationships. Manufacturing can't commence upon material until the material arrives, and the material can't arrive, until the time has passed from the order, etc..
Auto Lead Time Calculation of Interdependent Lead Times in Supply Planning Systems
In a supply planning system, all of these dependencies are calculated every time, and a sales order is created.
- The system knows that if a sales order is desired for say August 20th.
- The procurement order for input item ABC must be made on May 12th
- The overall production order must commence on July 5th, etc..
Supply Side: Supplier, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Shipping Lead Times
The total lead time is the time required to complete a supply chain process needed to provide the product to a customer. The overall lead time is made up of the following sub-lead times from the supply side:
- Supplier Lead Time or Supply Lead Time
- Manufacturing Lead Time
- Purchasing Lead Time
- Shipping Lead Time
Demand Side: Customer Lead Time and Order Lead Time
Additionally, there are lead times from the demand side.
This includes:
- Customer Lead Time
- Order Lead Time
These are more hypothetical lead times with it comes to supply planning and are measurements of lead time that occur before the order is placed.
How is The Supply Lead Time Incorporated into Inventory Management and Safety Stock
- Supply lead time inventory is made up of the portion of the stock that is held without any variability.
- Safety stock is made up of inventory that accounts for variability or uncertainty on both the demand and supply side. And with a dynamic safety stock formula, the service level is another category of the safety stock.
- Safety stock for the lead time in inventory would then be where the variability (which is always higher as only the variability above the baseline is what is calculated in safety stock) of the lead time is maintained.
Supply Lead Time Analysis
There is a lead time analysis that can be performed to determine the position in the lead time, which is accounted for in inventory. This lead time analysis can divide the product database by lead-time length or duration. But this required performing a lead time calculation.
How to Calculate Lead Time, Lead Time Calculation and How to Build a Lead Time Calculator
How to calculate lead time or perform a lead time calculation means knowing how lead time is added together.
The various lead times connect in the following way:
For Manufactured Products
Replenishment Lead Time = Manufacturing Lead Time + Procurement Lead Time (for raw materials, components, and subassemblies) + Shipping Lead Time
For Procured Products
Replenishment Lead Time = Procurement Lead Time (for raw materials, components, and subassemblies) + Shipping Lead Time
Often what is desired to be calculated is a total lead time. This means having a lead time calculator that combines multiple component lead times that are shown above.
How Effective is Putting Effort into Reducing the Lead Times?
There is often discussion of expediting the various lead times. Process improvement or Six Sigma or Lean consultants often propose simply reducing lead times.
The proposal is often stated as…
"If we can reduce our lead times, by ABC% we could reduce our inventory by ZYX%."
The consultant will often present the information as if many companies have had success in reducing lead times. Lean consultants tend to have a philosophical problem with any constraints that exist in the supply chain. Their training is designed around altering the limitations rather than adjusting to these realities. These consultants will propose working with suppliers or using various forms of expediting.
The problem with this is that it tends to provide a false impression of the actual constraints. And secondly, it tends to be proposed by people with a background in areas other than the domain of supplier management and shipping. That is, the lead times that exist are typically there for a reason.
Lead times reduction projects ten to take a lot of time, and most of them don't work out. In the interim, the supply planning systems need to reflect the lead times as they are.
Applying the Wal-Mart Strategy with Suppliers?
Wal Mart is often pointed to as a company that can get suppliers to make significant adjustments for them. However, there is a distinct and serious problem in projecting what Wal-Mart has done and can do with suppliers to other companies.
- Unless the company being discussed is a substantial percentage of the supplier's business, it is unlikely the supplier is interested in adjusting its operations to suit one supplier. The lead time is configured around the cost that is negotiated. As soon as shorter lead time is requested, this is a change to the terms of that arrangement — and the buyer needs to expect to pay more for the same items. Lean consultants tend to make it sound as if suppliers will simply change the terms of the transaction without any request for extra compensation. Suppliers that won't conform to the expectations of the Lean consultant are often categories as "difficult."
- When the proposal is made by a Lean consultant, it typically is just one of the areas that he is trying to pitch to justify his cost billing the account.
- Suppliers are ordinarily already trying to get products to their customers as quickly as is financially feasible. Suppliers know that customers are including lead times or "responsiveness" into their evaluation of who they will select as a supplier.
- The Lean consultant may propose switching to different suppliers with shorter lead times. However, this usually is only done at a higher cost.
In many cases, the only lead time that is reasonably capable of being expedited is the shipping lead time. The shipping lead time can only be accelerated at considerable expense (unless the product in question is of high value and low weight). A second area that is proposed is that the current manufacturing lead times can be reduced.
Reducing Manufacturing Lead Times?
Again, in many cases, it is possible, but only at considerable expense. This often means installing more machinery or adding more machine operators. Overall, manufacturing capacity is frequently reduced (and therefore lead times lengthened) through the process of product proliferation. Thus manufacturing capacity could be increased and lead times reduced by cutting down on changeovers — but this is typically not acceptable to marketing.
Realizing The Reality of Lead Times
It is rare for companies to substantially reduce their lead times. That is, lead times tend to be far more fixed than is often promoted by various process improvement consultants. Therefore, rather than being distracted by concepts around reducing lead times, the most critical function is to simply reflect the lead times in the supply planning system. Any inaccuracy of the lead times impacts the accuracy of the supply plan the same way that a forecast error would.
The Typical Accuracy of Lead Times Residing in Supply Planning Systems
Lead times usually have a level of inaccuracy, and companies typically put very little effort into updating their lead times. That is, once a lead time is entered into the system, it is likely to stay there for many years. Companies will often talk about their lead time inaccuracies but usually will not make it a priority to modify or update the lead times. If a company reduces lead time inaccuracy by say 10%, this has the same impact on the accuracy of the supply plan as a 10% reduction in forecast accuracy.
Finally, with the use of so many suppliers in so many industries that are driven by cost considerations, it means that the lead times have lengthened in the developed countries. Many input products for at least some industries come from China. Companies could have sourced those products from the US, but they preferred the higher margins of Chinese manufacturing.
A False Belief of Frequently Updating the Planning Process for Responsive Supply Chain
In many companies, a mantra has developed that it was important to be able to reflect the most recent updates to the planning process. What this results in are frequently last minute updates to the forecast and a very short or non-existent frozen period. This is promoted as forward thinking when, in fact, it is quite regressive.
The History of Supply Chain Planning
Planning has always existed in one form or another. However, it developed in conjunction with the rise of computers. There is no doubt in my mind that grain warehouse managers in ancient cultures performed some planning for managing the creation and inventory management of anything from grain stores to stones at a quarry. There is no doubt that planning took on enhanced capability with computers providing the ability to manage large amounts of data necessary to perform detailed planning.
However, while many companies purchased supply chain planning software, far fewer internalized the concepts and discipline of planning. For this reason, the vast majority of supply chains are reactively managed. And many people in high levels of companies such as Vice Presidents and Directors of Supply Chain do not appreciate or have even studied supply chain planning at any level of detail. For many of them, the planning systems are merely things to be manipulated to meet their short-term goals.
Responsive Supply Chain Concepts
Many think that the more they interfere with the system and the more responsive they make the system, the better the results will be. Thus, few organizations make much progress with their supply chains from year to year, because they lack the knowledge and discipline among their leadership ranks of how to effectively manage the systems they have purchased to achieve the organizations' supply chain objectives.
The Issue of Lead Times and Responsive Supply Chain
The problem with this idea is that it can be easily contradicted by looking at lead times. That is, changes to forecast cannot realistically be expected to be managed efficiently if they come in within total manufacturing or procurement lead times. However, the response one gets is that materials can be expedited.
What would seem desirable is for companies to build in flexible lead time capabilities into their products so that different lead times could have different costs associated so that the model could pick the best most appropriate lead time.
The problem with this is most companies don't know the actual costs of expediting products. Secondly, they have a big enough problem managing the master data of the lead times that they already maintain.
This is a good explanation of lead times. Lokad describes a very high effort approach to improving lead-time estimation. There are very few companies that are willing to put in this amount of work to get high degrees of lead time accuracy.
In this article, we defined lead time, and we covered lead time analysis, which requires lead time calculation.
However, to calculate lead time and develop an accurate lead time calculator and perform lead time calculation means knowing the independent lead time components. These include things like the manufacturing lead time, procurement lead time, supply lead time, etc..
There are several topics around lead time accuracy and the opportunity to reduce lead times. However, the role in supply planning with lead times is to try to reflect the actual lead times within the supply planning system.
The concept of planning systems with regards to lead times is simple. The lead times entered are to be the company's best guess as to the time required to perform different tasks. Planning systems are deterministic in that they produce a plan based on these lead times, and they need a sufficient lead time to do their job. If you interfere with their operation by forcing a broken and undisciplined forecast process onto the supply and production planning system, negative consequences will occur.


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Tomorrow, Marvin Goodfriend will likely be approved by the Senate Banking Committee as a Fed board member, which bodes well for his full confirmation in the Senate shortly thereafter. Meanwhile, Richard Clarida is now likely to be nominated for Fed Vice Chair. He had earlier dropped from the race for some unknown reason, but apparently reentered, and is, despite no direct central bank experience, an excellent candidate, just as Loretta Mester would have been (Why Loretta Mester Should be Fed Vice Chair). As for why he dropped out earlier, he might be a bit too hawkish for Trump's taste, and might have pushed back on the aggressive international trade stance or on fiscal deficits, but he is clearly a Republican and strongly approved of the new tax bill. Whether he gets confirmed or not by the Senate will be interesting, but so far, the Senate Democrats have not been too obstructionist for Fed nominations, even for Republicans like Randy Quarles.
Assuming confirmation, it is important to note that both Clarida and Goodfriend have expressed concerns about the size of MBS (mortgage-backed securities) on the Fed's balance sheet. Indeed, Goodfriend thinks they should never have been included as they are private-sector securities and that the Fed should not directly control prices in such markets. Whether GSEs, such as Fannie Mae, are actually private sector companies anymore is open to debate, as is whether the Fed was trying to control mortgage rates or just looking for more assets for QE purposes; but, it seems clear to me that both would support tapering MBS holdings faster than the current plan. This would likely raise mortgage rates and tame housing prices, which are likely rising too fast for comfort. Indeed, left unaddressed, house prices will likely rise so high as to cause another price crash in the next downdraft.
Meanwhile, these two likely concur with Powell's strong interest in GSE reform, so privatization of the major GSEs will likely receive a strong push from the Fed in conjunction with a more rapid tapering, including actual sales rather than just expirations, of MBS. Indeed, they will likely argue that since GSEs will likely be privatized, there is even more reason to eliminate them from the balance sheet. The question remains whether Senate Democrats filibuster the privatization, but the Fed may well proceed with MBS sales anyway.


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One reason the Toronto Blue Jays have qualified for the playoffs in this pandemic-condensed season is their success against the Baltimore Orioles, and they will look to continue that domination Saturday night in the middle game of a three-game series at Buffalo.
The Blue Jays (31-27) defeated the visiting Orioles (24-34) 10-5 Friday night in the series opener and are 7-1 in the season series between the teams.
Toronto still has a chance to finish second in the American League East and improve its seeding. The second-place New York Yankees had their lead over the Blue Jays cut to one game after they lost to the Miami Marlins in 10 innings Friday.
The Blue Jays are scheduled to start right-hander Matt Shoemaker (0-1, 4.71 ERA) in his second outing since coming off the injured reserve list. The Orioles will start left-hander John Means (2-3, 5.02).
Shoemaker is a candidate to start the third game (if necessary) of the three-game first-round playoff series.
He allowed one run in three innings Monday against the Yankees in his first start since Aug. 21 because of shoulder inflammation.
This will be Shoemaker's seventh start of the season and his first against Baltimore. He is 3-1, with a 2.25 ERA, in five career starts against Baltimore.
Means allowed two runs in four innings against Toronto in a no-decision start Aug. 28. He is 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in two career starts against Toronto.
The Blue Jays are using the weekend games to prepare for the postseason that starts Tuesday.
Regulars Cavan Biggio and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. were rested Friday and two more position players will be given a break for the games Saturday and Sunday.
The Blue Jays would finish second in the AL East with a sweep of the Orioles and two losses by the Yankees.
"We're going to go out there to play to win but my main goal right now is to give guys days off because they need it," Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said. "It's been a grind. Try to keep them healthy for the playoffs. Whoever needs to get some rest will get rest."
Another objective will be to set up the pitching staff for next week.
Taijuan Walker was limited to three perfect innings Friday as a tune up for next week. Rookie Nate Pearson came off the IL (elbow) to pitch 1 2/3 innings in relief Friday to earn his first major league win. His 100-mile-an-hour fastball could be valuable in relief during the playoffs.
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Amazon started as online book store and has grown to be the worlds largest online retailer.
In September Amazon updated its policy for buyers who leave a review. Now Amazon in the UK and EU have also issued guidance updates basically banning incentivised reviews, including those posted in exchange for a free or discounted copy of the product.
Amazon's UK and EU policy now says that you can't do any of the following:
What you can do is:
The above changes apply only to product categories other than books. Amazon say that they "Continue to allow the age-old practice of providing advance review copies of books".
This looks like a pretty comprehensive banning of all forms of incentivised reviews. We know that reviews are valuable in attracting more customers to purchase your product. In the future it would appear that you'll be limited to enticing genuine customers to leave reviews. If you can see any wiggle room in Amazon's new UK and EU policy we'd love to hear from you.
If you've already got an existing relationship with a manufacturer, i.e you've reviewed product from them in the past and you've been happy with the product and they've been happy with your review could send you an item directly.
If they send an item directly with the expectation that a review is not requested or required. you could review that item.
Yes it won't appear as a verified review and as long as its only a small group of people ( to avoid tripping amazons system as indicated on their site)that the item is sent to then it should appear.
The reviewer would be limited to 5 per week.
Obviously there's a trust issue, but if you've worked with that manufacturer before. that shouldn't be a problem
" if you've worked with that manufacturer before…"
then it's not an honest review. you're working, not consuming. you're an employee. you're being paid.
this may be in the best interest of some manufacturer, of professional reviewers [employees]
it is NOT in the interest of consumers, at all.
honest reviews, from honest customers, or dont bother.
if you want to be a professional reviewer, forward your CV to which? magazine, where they pay professional reviewers for professional reviews. Amazon reviews are supposed to be honest, unbiased, unrewarded, consumer reviews.
Seems you've gotten worked up over my use of "worked". reviewed is more suited. As such it's perfectly possible to provide an unbiased review.
well not just the word "worked", the entire scenario suggests a employee relationship, a small group of people getting free stuff for saying nice things, not an impartial review. it's a for-profit arrangement, even if the profit isnt directly financial.
Again this the difference between a good and bad reviewer.
I only review products that I will make use of. If I review a product that is bad for a manufacturer I'll mark it appropriately.
The rationale behind this is because it's rubbish. It will warn potential buyers of the flaws and lead to purchases and returns and less likelihood of the supplier being flagged to amazon of providing a defective product.
If I'm not offered another product by the manufacturer I don't care. Other manufacturers will always contact me because they've seen the reviews I've produced and I'll take them up on their offer or not. If it's exactly the same product it pointless to review the same product again and again so I won't bother. If it's a similar type product that I can compare it gives me the opportunity to compare and contrast and provide more of an informed opinion.
Once I've created a review for me it's done. for me. Sometimes I'll get positive likes from other customers. for providing insight. Sometimes it will be marked down by competitors. or other reviewers. I've learned long ago not to worry about things I can't control. Amazon could have fixed this a while back to give a better indication of who likes or dislike a review but they didn't bother.
It's perfectly possible to review an item discounted or free and remain objective.
so what you're saying is – you'd be more than happy to receive the product, review it, AND THEN SEND THEM BACK IMMEDIATELY?
and do the videos / reviews etc you speak of without being paid?
no of course not.
you're not in it for the public good, you're in it for your own good.
you're just trying to defend a system where you get paid (in kind) by saing you dont really get paid.
"I only review products that I will make use of."
– Well i only accept wages i'll actually spend.
" If I review a product that is bad for a manufacturer I'll mark it appropriately."
– if you receive a pile of junk, the only appropriate review is "complete stinking pile of garbage", or such like, but you would not write that, because you are not an impartial reviewer, you're a paid employee with a reputation to uphold in order to maintain your paid employee status.
We've used a review group once for a product launch, after seeing all our competitors get hundreds of reviews over night and shoot up the ranking. We now use on Amazon PPC to get sale & ranking traction on new products.
However we are still members of the usual Amazon Review Facebook groups. Today we saw a post on one group saying the instead of giving discounts codes in exchange for reviews, the sellers should send money via Paypal to fund the purchase in exchange for a review
And in the groups own words "If reviewers in this group mess about with sellers then they will be removed from the group"
perhaps they could offer a tiered system, the better the review the more you pay?
like £5 for a 4-star and £10 for a 5-star?
doesnt that sound fantastically honest all round.
wonder why amazon want to do away with this kind of thing in the first place?
money via paypal is a complete no noi.. It is explcit in the rules that paid for reviews will be banned.
It's a huge risk as once amazon finds out the seller and reviewer will be bannded,
And find out they will (honest) reviewers will report this to amazon.
It's simply not worth the risk as a seller.
This is great news. Over the last few months I've made a few purchases on Amazon and I'm sick of seeing 'I received this free or at a heavily discounted price in exchange for my honest opinion' etc. I don't believe these people give unbiased reviews because of fear they'll be removed from the scheme.
I see it as a corrupt practice and I'm glad Amazon have finally acted on it.
Amazon Could have done a lot of different things to weed out poor reviews.
Unfortunately good reviewers have now been lumped together with bad reviewers who got free stuff on mass hgave a one line reivew and 10 line disclaimer.
Unfortunatley good reviewers have been lumped in witht he bad who were after freebies, gave one line reviews and a 10 line disclaimer.
Amazon could have found a better solution than this a long time ago.
I felt it was only a matter of time before this was introduced in UK/EU; Amazon seem determined to try and introduce an honest review system. I suspect more sellers will turn to Amazon feedback software to boost reviews and comply with Amazon's Terms of Service.
I find constant emails form suppliers asking for a review an annoyance. Those that do respond will give a short review " great, does what it says on the tin".
There is no incentive for anyone to write a review, take pictures and videos. It takes time to create a good review that is useful to potential buyers. No one is going to spend the time and effort it takes to do that for zero reward.
There is no incentive for anyone to write a review, take pictures and videos. It takes time to create a good review that is useful to potential buyers. No one is going to spend the time and effort it takes to do that for zero reward.
That is *exactly* why these bought-off "unbiased" reviews were so dishonest and untrustworthy. I am glad Amazon has got rid of them at long last. It has often stopped me buying and I daresay others too. Amazon is nothing without trust.
As for people being able to spot a shill review, clearly they generally cannot because otherwise the shill-reviewers wouldn't have been told to put in their disclaimer.
You still don't explain why anyone would go through the effort of creating a substantial review explaining the good point and bad points of a product.
You're telling me that a review that breaks down everything, take pictures from all angles, provides a video of use, explains the pros and cons put you off buying a product? Then why bother reading a review? Simply buy your product from the manufacturer's description.
Reviewers who were provided with a product free of charge or via a coupon had to do that for legal purposes. It's a mystery why amazon just didn't create an icon that denoted the same thing.
Since you're such an avid reader of reviews I guess you'll be able to spot the products that were brought as amazon deals of the day that required no such disclaimer. Maybe you'll now be able to spot the unverified purchases that were given away directly by suppliers against those purchased from others site or companies.
You still don't explain why anyone would go through the effort of creating a substantial review explaining the good point and bad points of a product…
Exactly. Hardly anyone will write a long review for free, unless they particularly like seeing their writing online. Genuine reviews tend to be only a few lines long. Genuine reviews can also be incredibly unhelpful, such as the classic Amazon "review" along the lines of, "As described. Arrived on time." Or the even better Amazon product review, "Fast despatch. Haven't used it yet." O.M.G. That's where the Unhelpful button comes in. I can see why companies give away freebies to try and get long reviews.
You're telling me that a review that breaks down everything, take pictures from all angles, provides a video of use, explains the pros and cons put you off buying a product..?
Long and fulsome reviews sound great – until you get to the disclaimer which then negates what was written earlier. They are always too gushing. And yes, it is offputting.
Reviewers who were provided with a product free of charge or via a coupon had to do that for legal purposes…
Casual reviewers are only under an ethical obligation, not a legal one.
Maybe you'll now be able to spot the unverified purchases that were given away directly by suppliers against those purchased from others site or companies…
Maybe. I'll give a recent example. It just so happens my father was looking for a whetstone to sharpen a blade. We were browsing Amazon for whetstones and one particular one caught our eye because all the "verified" reviews were 5*. What an incredible whetstone, I thought. It must be brilliant. I read the reviews: all were posted within a two week period; all gave 5* and all, without exception, came out with the guff about being an honest review in exchange for a free product. Yeah, right. How incredible that those lucky reviewers were all randomly given a free item that turned out to be brilliant. What are the chances of that? We didn't buy the whetstone.
As other examples mentioned on this thread show, reviews can be subverted.
Reviews are only as good as the knowledge and experience of the reviewer.
Agreed. I was looking for a Christmas present for my son. The item I looked at looked good, and had lots of 5 star reviews. But they were all paid for reviews. I didn't buy the product, because I didn't trust the reviews. Instead I bought from a listing where most of the reviews were real – included negative reviews, but their feedback was useful and I was able to decide it was not relevant to me.
When someone is rewarded for a review, their reviews cannot be trusted. And having to scroll through dozens and dozens of such reviews just makes me distrust the product.
It doesn't have to be a long review, pictures and videos which takes time and can help persuade a buyer to take it or leave it. The whole point that people who "genuinely" purchase a product don't leave reviews that are helpful, beyond as you've stated a "great does what it says on the tin" A hundred of those may be useful for you. to make a decision. But for others, a review which has more substance is marginally more useful. Nor for the vast Majority of users do they encapsulate everything. It's simply not possible and doesn't read well. All the "honest" reviews have something different because people have different criteria when purchasing. Some want to know what's inside the box, some don't. Some want an unboxing video, some don't. Some want to see it in action, some don't. etc.etc..etc.
If you read a great review that connects with you and details the things that you are looking and then gets to the end and thinks. " well they got it for a coupon for it can't be a genuine review" says more about your moral disposition then the reviewers.
Casual reviewers are only under an ethical obligation, not a legal one.
Again, this says more about your ethics than the reviewers. Since you've made a sweeping assessment of the ethics of all coupon reviewers.
In regards to your whetstone example, would you have been so dismissive if it had been a deal of the day and within a week period people who had purchased it at a discounted rate en mass has given it 5 stars and said " great does what it says on the tin"
Let me give you some of my review examples.
A lady emailed me directly asking my opinion on a camera as i had reviewed a couple. She didn't have much money and was buying one for her son for Christmas. I told her which one, in my opinion, was best and the reasons why. My "expertise" exists because i had access to more than one and was able to give the pros and cons and why the one I had chosen was the best.
A manufacture of over 100 luggage items sent me a bag. I said I'd delay the review until I used it on a trip which I did. I gave it a glowing review because it was a fantastic bag. It took time and effort to create the review picture and videos and the supplier said it was the best overall review of a bag they had. They offered me another one , but I declined as I wasn't going on another trip.
Two "Genuine" reviewers purchased the item and gave it 1 star. they thought it was too big to use and get through security. I pointed out that this wasn't a review. they actually hadn't used the item. One of them actually then did use the item, found it was as good as I had explained and upgraded his review to 4 stars. I didn't have to do that., I had " no skin in the game" but it was totally unfair on the supplier and I said so because of they couldn't. Currently, 26/27 customers find my review useful. So useful that the product is now in the top 50 of a major subcategory. That is the power of a good review. Both suppliers and customers win. Amazon knows this. It generates sales and they are in the business of making money.
I can already see the Vine system being subverted. If you have to maintain you ranking then once you've given a glowing review to a vine product you just wait until other manufacturers who don't want o pay for vine contact you and send you a product directly. You give a glowing review get likes and maintain your standing. All that changes is you don't get a verified purchased and that doesn't matter as I've found unverified reviews at the top of an item review list because it's the best one. Only, in this case, you don't have to leave an "honest review" disclaimer as you can say you weren't coerced into a leaving a review.. or you could say you got it from a brick and mortar store.
Now by limiting the amount of free products that sellers can provide to get reviews all they have to do is stagger the process.
Whilst this has gotten rid of the shill review clubs ( which is a good thing) It's made it harder for people to differentiate between a coupon review and paid for review and now amazon gets more money for suppliers willing to use vine.
What are amazon going to do about the reviews that have already been gamed?
In some of the private label categories I sell in the front page is littered with products that have 500-1000+ paid for reviews and 5*'s. Some of these listings have gained this many reviews in a matter of months.
It will be almost impossible to compete with these, taking many many years to get that number of reviews on top of it being unlikely our products will get a perfect 5* as compared to these gamed reviews (where they mostly get 5* as a matter of course).
I hope Amazon either remove them or severely penalise these listings.
Well now I understand the source of your frustration.
I guess easier to tarnish all your competitors as gaming the system when they've actually bothered to do their homework optimised their listing, paid to get the buy box, sourced a cheaper product.
What of those starting off in your categories that take your sales? What sour grapes will you throw at them?
Maybe you should concentrate on your own listings to see where the problem lies.
I have no issue with competition – in my category there are competitors much bigger than us and we welcome this – competition is healthy.
However there are those that have littered the front page (on certain gifts etc) with bought for reviews . They are not UK companies, mostly US companies with deep pockets and the products they sell aren't very good.
Our products are cheaper and better quality – what we don't have are hundreds of 5* reviews that have been bought.
Our products do sell well and will continue to sell. However it will take much much longer to get those sort of reviews and buyers are being duped into buying inferior products.
(btw I'm a different James from the other james in this thread). It's a common "name" around here.
If your products are cheaper and better quality then you're doing something wrong. People aren't being "duped" they're not idiots. They can spot a shill review a mile away. People who have purchased your product have no incentive to spend the time it takes to provide an in-depth review with pictures and videos. It's those things that sway opinion. Not quantity but quality.
You overestimate the intelligence of UK consumers.
This isn't a country of smart buyers. If you want smart buyers go to Asia, you won't find them in the UK.
That is not to say there are not smart buyers… it's just that the culture here leads to very stupid purchase decisions. Rip off Britain exists for a reason
Its a good thing you didn't go all Ratner to your customers on your email list. You wouldn't have had anyone else to blame.
As a supplier, you don't have to have the leverage that bigger companies have or the ability to dish out hundreds of free products, nor for that matter paying to go on Vine.
Find a good reviewer in your niche of products or competitor products who has in the past produced concise great reviews ( good or bad) with videos and pictures.
Ask them if they would like to try out your product and wait to see if they put out a review.
It will only cost you 3-5 items of stock and time. Time to research look and find the right reviewer.
If your product is as superior as you think it is, it will boost your sales guaranteed legitimately.
Unless I'm misinterpreting this then wouldn't the Amazon Vine programme technically be in breach of their own policy?
No. You don't have to review an item if you get it via vine.
As a supplier, you pay amazon to take x amount of your stock and provide it to their vine reviewers.
The reviewers have no obligation to provide a review, nor do they have to provide an in-depth review. So it works out if you have deep pockets.
This scenario is now the same for suppliers who don't do this via vine. They can provide products to reviewers but cannot explicitly ask for a review.
Reviewers who do decide to review the item are limited to 5 per week and these will be "unverified reviews"
What you say doesn't mirror what Amazon say about their vine programme?
"Once they are invited into the programme, to maintain their status as a Vine Voice, they must review all of the selected products within 30 days of receipt and continue to be among the reviewers with the highest ranks from Amazon to keep their status as a Vine member."
My mistake, It seems they've recently changed that requirement, I presume in response to the overall change in reviews.
Although now it seems reviewers are on the same treadmill, only this time, amazon gets paid.
Here's how Vine works: Amazon – not the vendor or seller – identifies and invites trusted and helpful reviewers on Amazon to post opinions about new and pre-release products; we do not incentivize positive star ratings, attempt to influence the content of reviews, or even require a review to be written; and we limit the total number of Vine reviews that we display for each product
Tha was amazons stand on amazon.com and co.uk https://smile.amazon.com/p/feature/abpto3jt7fhb5oc
Yes, I know how vine works, however that blog contradicts what the amazon vine help page states (link below) and it doesn't stop the fact that it is still in essence an incentivised review since the reviewer is receiving a free product in exchange for the review.
I welcome this policy – I don't pay for reviews and allow my the ASIN's to talk for themselves at their own rate. Without any "boosts" or "pushes" in reviews. It will allow only the best products to be elevated and cheap imports to go down in the search results and branded high quality products to go higher
No one pays for reviews. You'd be risking your account as a seller if you did.
"It will allow only the best products to be elevated and cheap imports to go down in the search results "
I guess that marketing isn't in your forte. Good luck with that betamax player.
@James Since I can't reply to your response ( seems a limitation of the forum features.
"you're not in it for the public good, you're in it for your own good."
***At no point have I stated that I do not benefit with a product at a reduced price or free. You seem to be stuck in a recursive loop with cognitive dissonance about separating good and bad reviewers and the benefits and pitfalls of both. It also seems it's beyond your reasoning to accept that a reviewer isn't morally and ethically bound to give anything less than a five-star review. My what a black and white world you live in.
– Well, I only accept wages I'll actually spend.
***** This is nonsensical
–"if you receive a pile of junk, the only appropriate review is "complete stinking pile of garbage".
***** It's ironic how you believe that only reviews should be independent of external influences and here you are telling people how they should mark their reviews.
There are 5 stars and really markings can be subjective for each reviewer. If it's completely unfit for purpose then in my opinion its a 1 star. If I give a product 5 stars and then months later provided with a product with new and improved features worthy of 5 stars am I bound to give the first product 4 stars? No of course not. I once gave a product 3 stars because one of the functions didn;t work properly but the point was it didn't render the product unusable. I suggested in my review ways it could be improved. Months later the same manufacturer supplied me with a new product that had worked out the kinks and was worthy of 5 stars,
That probably blew your minds as you operate in a binary fashion.
Regardless. I think this conversation is at a close. It seems pointless to continue. I wish you well selling your trinkets as it seems you're gonna need it.
"At no point have I stated that I do not benefit with a product at a reduced price or free."
– No, you've tried every way to say "I deserve free stuff" without actually saying it. You dont.
"with cognitive dissonance about separating good and bad reviewers and the benefits and pitfalls of both."
– you're a moron that seems to have watched too much westworld. I'm not trying to seperate bad reviewers, i'm saying you are one. black/white enough for ya?
"– Well, I only accept wages I'll actually spend."
***** This is nonsensical
– if you're an idiot maybe. I dont accept payment in monopoly money, cos i cant spend it. you only accept payment in items you'll use. the difference? nothing. you're being paid to say nice things, then have plastered this page with BS excuses about how you're not. it's blatantly obvious to everyone here you are.
"blah blah blah" is the rest of it.
you're paid to say nice things, many examples you just given of "i didnt slate it even though it deserved slating and so i got another free one later" = POINT PROVED.
James Riddles, you help no-one but yourself, you are the kind of people Amazon are trying to get rid of. other people's informed purchasing is not your primary concern, your own profit is. you've shown it over and again here. were it not for profit, you wouldnt be doing reviews. so dont. take the hint from Amazon and the rest of us.
we use feedbackfive , no free items or discounted , just a polite email 2 weeks after purchase asking for a product review if the buyer has time , we have had about 70 genuine reviews in 3 months on one product, not fast but the reviews seem to grow with the listing as it moves up the ranking to1st /2nd page for its catergory
is there a official link from Amazon where we can read the new guidelines?
I mean on Amazon UK.


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