 a great job putting them together too. Can’t wait to see when they are producing tomatoes for you.
I’m glad that you’ve decided to get some more chicks again. Aren’t they addictive! LOL And I love the pics of your grown up chickens too. Are they all hens? I have one barred rock (same age as the other 2 barred rock that I have) and he/she is growing so much faster. He/she has the red comb and waddles… I’m just not sure if it is a girl or a boy. I guess time will eventually tell. Mine are 3 months old already.
I am jealous of your green containers! I bought supplies to make four more last night, but the only color they had was gray. The first one I put together was navy blue, so now I have to figure out how to give away the blue one so the rest match.
I planted two tomatoes in the first bin, but perhaps I will try one or two bins with only one tomato and see how much of a difference it makes in their growth.
I love your greenhouse. Did you build it?
Ask us about our Marketing Procurement event – taking place on March 7th.
Procurement professionals, you are not alone in the issues you’re currently facing.
Over the past five years, I’ve gathered insight from the 70-plus events I’ve hosted across different marketing disciplines. It means that nearly a thousand marketers and procurement professionals have shared their business challenges with me – along with their disappointments and successes – when it comes to working with agencies.
In this article you’ll find that knowledge and recent experiences condensed into three challenges that will not only instil a sense of unity among the procurement community but will also stimulate change within this area.
Procurement structures for marketing were established at a time when marketers from leading organisations were mostly interested in engaging with big, traditional agencies, with enough members of staff to manage their global accounts. These agency reviews would take months to be finalised and the same agency would be expected to answer many different challenges. Sound familiar?
Procurement professionals are now under pressure from their stakeholders, who are looking to work with more innovative, nimble and agile agencies. These are words I hear all the time from marketing teams. Marketers can’t afford to wait for a six-month review to bring in a new agency; they want to trial different offerings and they want to do it now. A challenge addressed in a brief might look completely different just a few weeks after it was released.
Don’t get me wrong, the big agencies out there are still very much needed, but there’s now more of an appetite to trial different things.
Leading on from the point above, technology is an area that many businesses are trying to navigate. The pace of innovation is only adding to that challenge, so the pressure to find the right platform, tool or partner is constantly ratcheted up for procurement teams. Some of their stakeholders’ marketing requirements might best be fulfilled by a tech start-up e.g. a three-person company that is just two years old; very different to the traditional agency model they’re used to.
Influencer marketing is a prime example. Most of the solutions to a lot of challenges within this area are coming from technology start-ups created in the past three years or so. Procurement professionals are trying to understand how to embrace these start-ups to continue to utilise suppliers offering solutions that will really add value to their business. The due diligence that procurement teams need to go through to ensure that those start-ups fit all of their company’s criteria could restrict their choice of smaller suppliers. It’s a challenging but exciting space to be in, where companies have the opportunity to use more innovative technologies within their marketing.
3 – It’s all blurry!
Finally, disciplines are blurring together. It’s becoming harder for procurement teams to pigeon-hole agencies. For instance, I get calls from procurement professionals who are looking to review their social media roster. They are unsure about how to review this marketing channel, as so many agencies from their other preferred supplier lists – including PR, content and integrated digital agencies – are both highly qualified and able to offer social media support. Keeping agencies segmented into separated disciplines will only become harder and harder for procurement.
It seems like procurement teams are feeling there might be a need to change the way they engage with suppliers. This is an exciting opportunity for them to create a new structure, with more flexibility, which will allow their stakeholders to work with the best solutions and suppliers in the market.
These concerns are quite common across different organisations and yet procurement teams might think they’re on their own. This is where we come in. We would like to hear from all procurement professionals who can relate to the challenges I’ve shared with you and work towards solving common problems. Ingenuity offers a vast array of services to help procurement departments keep up to date with the agency/technology landscape.
Join us on the March 7th for our exclusive event in London for procurement professionals. The theme is ‘The Future of Digital Agencies’ and will give you the chance to meet and question the most innovative agencies in the marketplace. If you want more information, then please get in touch by emailing |||EMAIL_ADDRESS|||.
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The formation and evolution of young low-mass stars are characterized by important processes of mass loss and accretion occurring in the innermost regions of their placentary circumstellar disks. Because of the large obscuration of these disks at optical and infrared wavelengths in the early protostellar stages (class 0 sources), they were previously detected only at radio wavelengths using interferometric techniques. We have detected with the Infrared Space Observatory the mid-infrared (mid-IR) emission associated with the class 0 protostar VLA1 in the HH1-HH2 region located in the Orion nebula. The emission arises in three wavelength windows (at 5.3, 6.6, and 7.5 micrometers) where the absorption due to ices and silicates has a local minimum that exposes the central part of the young protostellar system to mid-IR investigations. The mid-IR emission arises from a central source with a diameter of 4 astronomical units at an averaged temperature of ∼700 K, deeply embedded in a dense region with a visual extinction of 80 to 100 magnitudes.
© 2000 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 22 November 1999; accepted 21 March 2000. We thank Spanish Direcciόn General de Enseñanza Superior and Plan Nacional de Investigaciόn Espacial for support under grants PB96-0883 and PB98-1351E.
With the launch of Digital India, the country has taken a big step forward towards ONE India. Attempts to bridge the Bharat-India divide have been made earlier as well. The failure happened on two counts: lack of political will and acknowledgement of technology as the key differentiator. Digital India promises to deliver given the political will of the Prime Minister. Luckily, given its potential to empower, no political formulation dare criticize the initiative today. The India Inc push for the initiative leading to a promise of Rs 4.5 lakh crore augurs well for young India. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) alone has promised Rupees 2.5 lakh crore for Digital India. With such all round robust backing, it is incumbent upon the government to flesh out an institutional framework to build the complete digital ecosystem. Time is ripe for seamless transition from (m)anual to (m)obile governance.
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Compare him today to two days ago first picture on this post (him looking at me)

https://ibb.co/44bTn0f

Just crazy how in one day he deteriorated this much.... Pisses me off to not know if it's something we had no controll over like an injury/genetic condition/parasite from cricket, or was a husbandry issue and our fault for not doing something/doing something wrong.

Cared for animals my whole life, (fish, dogs,cats,turtles,birds farm lvestock) so I'm not an inept pet owner.  But besides chameleons as a kid, the dragon was new for us since Xmas.I hope this is okay — I’m not religious but I’ve spent the last 5 years among religious women and had many conversations. 

What I tend to understand from them is that women have an inherent role in God’s eyes that is not beneath men, subservient, or less. It is the fault of man who wrote down the words and set it in their worldview. They tend to accept that back then, the world was more violent and the protection and control of women was necessary. But in modern day, we have the technology and culture to know that our place is different than men. Not greater, not lesser, just its own place in this world that we should embrace. 

I find it very fascinating. I enjoy speaking with them on this stuff. For reference, these are Jewish women. They point to many stories in the Torah where women are critical to the success of the story and defied men (Exodus is a common one - without Moses’ mother(s) and sister, none of it would have happened).