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Suzanne is an experienced counsellor of 11 years, trained in person centred therapy, transactional analysis, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), 1 to 1/couples counselling and inner child work. She has worked in the National Health Service, colleges, voluntary sector and currently private practice. Her focus has always been a deep understanding and passion for promoting emotional wellbeing, developing effective relationships and evolving the connection between mind, body and spirit. Professional training and personal experience gives her the knowledge that being present in the powerful conditions of being really heard, accepted and understood can be very dynamic and growth promoting in itself. This approach encourages contact with your own innate strengths and internal guidance leading to the resolution of current and past difficulties and growth into your true potential. Suzanne's warmth and grounding presence provides an atmosphere of safety enabling the process of deep reflection. The clarity and insights gained allows for a change of perspective, authenticity and transformation which lead to more effective communication, more fulfilling relationships with the people closest to you, and more importantly, yourself!


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Any way you could go at all, an alley, a driveway, the isles of a grocery store, any hall, any path, any general direction or choice is a road. It's as good as a road. It takes you somewhere, to do something. It's a road. You can take this road, or that road, or the high road. That's supposed to be a respectable choice. There's the road to glory, and the road to destruction. And so often roads have one name on one end, and turn into another at some point, maybe several times, without actually making any turns off the damn road at all. Someone might say something like: "This road will lead you to another, and take a left on that one, skip the next two rights, take the third right, the next left and you're there." And then they say "Ya can't miss it!"… Which is hilarious, because we all miss the biggest things, all the time, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. No one should say that. It's useless. It makes me think of those billboards that say "Turn around! You just missed us!" by outlet malls, truck stops, produce stands or apartment communities. I think what I mean to say here is: I'm here for the traveling, not the destination. I didn't always know that though, and I often forget. So, if you want, come with me, there's a road I know, that I remember. I'll remember it for you. I'll paint it with words as I remembered it once in a dream. If you want you can come, but not to a place we can touch with our feet.
It was morning, and this particular morning was one of those in which my subconsciousness wakes me by sending to the surface of my mind little pieces of truth among random mixed up phrases and images. But I couldn't completely remember what pulled the thread loose that brought all the pieces up to link together and shape this particular place, this particular destination. It seemed so familiar. Subconsciousness must have just started me down that long path when I felt the pull of recognition and let myself be swallowed up by the scene coming into focus now.
The field to the right was covered in dew that blew a foggy haze into the light beaming from the barely risen sun, and it seemed to wrap the entire memory-scape. There is gravel at our feet. I didn't need the visual affirmation of turning around to look, the dirt road stretched out behind me to either side. Slowly raising my eyes from my feet– the spread gravel lays atop the sandy ground. Patches of red Georgia clay shine brilliantly and defiantly through spots washed away by rain. Here and there are bits of mica or "fool's gold" glint through the matte rust colored earth and wink a greeting back to us.
I look over the large yard to my left– bare except for a few tall pines. I raise my eyes a little more. There are the familiar wide stairs. The sidewalk runs along the front length of a large white house with dark green trim. It leads up to the long porch that runs the same length. Complete with rocking chairs, the porch wraps around the front portion of the house in true southern fashion. The front sidewalk leads down to the entrance of the lower level, on the left side of the house. It was a home separate from the home above. Further left than that was the small pond behind the neighbor's pale yellow stucco house, the house with curiously few windows. In this memory, though I didn't know why any more than I knew how, this house was tagged, or marked. It results in a kind of hiccup in the part of my mind that bridges curiosity and certainty, but that won't be mapped or named. This is a memory, a dream of one perspective, at one time, and so the hiccup is a faint invocation, a disconnected memory inside a memory. Other angles of this house came back to me, ones from what will be the future. A small barely detectable series of hiccups ensue. First, the image my mind had collected and cataloged of a lingering look out of a window of the big white house on the hill, down the slope at one of the only two back windows without shutters or trim. Just stucco waves back. Another angle; standing in a back room of this house next to a woman talking to a man. The air is green tinted and seems vaporous. My head, which barely rose above their knees, was turned looking up the hill at the big white house and wanting to be out of the green murky air of the house with not enough windows. The hiccups become subdued, I press them aside within the cage of my ribs.
We're still standing in the driveway. The sun is bright and it's just above the horizon shining harshly on the field. I move my feet now and wonder briefly if the vines that grew along the fence line further down by the field still blossomed in those hardy orange trumpet shaped flowers; so ordinary and still so beautiful. I want to pick one for you, as souvenir, but it will die. All souvenirs die. This small trip we're taking, sharing it with you, that will give it another life. And for that you can take what you want as a souvenir from it. But, we have to start first.
I take a dream step, and anything can happen in a dream step. You might create a whole universe by kicking over a rock. In one step you might lightly tap the earth and bound up into the sky and eventually get lost in the Milky Way. In another step you might feel immeasurable weight press through the ball of your foot and find yourself grinding through the crust of the Earth lead by a foot that became a drill by just realizing that it could, if it wanted to. You have to be mindful when walking in a dream. And I am. Carefully, and with intent, I place one foot solidly upon the ground. I don't want to fly away right now. I want to get where we're going, up that driveway. We are traveling. With that truth being acknowledged internally, and another breathless hiccup of sorts, I am suddenly standing on that big porch, hand hovering above the brass doorknob. Other images play across my mind's eye like a screen between where I am now and the space my thoughts occupy. I realize I am turning the pages of my mind around for you to see them too as you read the words of my dream, of my road, of my path. Every thought, prefaced with "Look:". It doesn't happen in order of typical progression you expect in the physical world because this is a dream-scape. As such, of course, it is not subject to these kinds of limitations.
Look: we are inside the home. Look: the three brightly painted wooden tulips on wood stems that sit on the windowsill above the sink, looking out at the edge of temperate forests of pine trees who's paths are padded with sun toasted pine straw. Look: the cerulean blue tiled bathroom, wall to wall like an aquarium. There when you look in the mirror, you are the life on display. Look: the the living room; ornate ashtrays, cans of corn chips keeping the T.V. remote company, countless big cat figurines, leopards and cheetahs and lions. Some with heads that bob and sway at us. Look: the two foot tall wood carved likeness of a Native American. He holds a spear and has a loincloth made of dusty, brick colored fabric. Look: the beautiful and precious spotted sea shells lay on shelves. I had often been allowed to adore the shells in the palms of my hands. I would show them to those seated in the dim smoky living room expecting that they'd never noticed them before. Occasionally, they humored me and acted as if they were just noticing their beauty for the first time. I smile. My eyes burn. I clench them tightly closed and rub them with my fists. Spots of colored light flash and swim across the inside of my eyelids. Look: in the kitchen again, plastic butterflies and assorted fruit magnets adorn the fridge. Look; The wooden trash bin adjacent to the matching wooden cubbies carved "Onions" and "Potatoes". And as if brought on by the rapid procession of these various images I am pulled into the memory, into a previous version of my body, as a small child. I am sitting at the round table that is comes to mid chest on my distantly familiar body. I am in the kitchen, in front of a bowl of Rice Crispies, next to my grandmother. She is Mamaw. Mamaw is intriguing me with what the cereal might be saying in her raspy smoker's voice. Child self puts an ear down toward the bowl that rests on the quilted place-mat. I turn my child's face back up towards the grandmother's face which is smiling down at us, having momentarily forgotten the cards she had laid out in front of her for her ritualistic morning game of what should be solitaire, but may not be exactly that.
Listen now: the sound of them, the cards against the table, the shuffling. Let me save that as a favorite thing. "Let me leave and not have forgotten it. The seashells on the shelf, and the sound of the cards. I need to keep those." I internally whisper the silent prayer to my highest self.
Look: her face, Mamaw's face. It was years after this memory happened before I understood why the skin of my grandmother's face and neck were so tight in places, and her skin seemed to have been frozen in a fluid movement in others. She'd been burned, it was once, and finally explained. The story had been turned into a lesson, the moral of which was "don't play too close to the fire". Details were largely and disappointingly left out. Child self just looks up at our Mamaw and smiles back. She doesn't seem to be affected by the knowledge of her scars so it is decided that we won't be either, and we forget to notice them at all. Mamaw returns to her cards. I watch her arms and the way they move and how the movements make less noticeable quivers down the gentle looking flesh. They seem so soft, but I fight the urge to lay my spoon down and touch them, and instead fondly note it as one of the ways a woman's body ages. Soft round arms, that's not so bad.
The cereal has almost lost all of its "voice" or the women's voices have drowned it out. Mother is in the kitchen too. A version of myself is hesitant to acknowledge this, and also unsure of which version that hesitation comes from. Is it current/real time self, or as I am in the memory, child self, or higher self, or maybe ego? But she is there, The Mother. She's moving between the fridge that's covered in those brightly colored butterfly wings and pineapples, and orange slice magnets, and the gas stove. Listen: They're speaking, the women are. If you weren't familiar with these women's voices they would sound completely identical. These are the voices of my mother and aunts. Smokers, all. They carried on in that southern ostentatious way for the benefit of the other. Good-natured, even if conspicuous. All of them seemed like the kind of women that would only take so much. After the tears were shed, if they were at all, there'd be nothing left to stop them from leaving. It was probably best to assume that they were right and just take their advice. Except that of the the mother. That thought from the same source of previous hesitation to acknowledge her at all, which is odd because now the aunts and grandmother are blurred muted figures of faintly colored static. The Mother gains focus to the point that she's unbearably lifelike. Maybe my heart will realize it wants to try being a drill and bore away a hole, a passage, another path out of this memory and drag me with it, because she's beautiful, and it will hurt to see her face when she turns toward us. It won't hurt because she's beautiful. It will hurt because of the beauty of what her face meant, or should have meant, was supposed to mean. How many selves does she get to hurt? Child self, young woman self, mother self, artist self, lover self? Selves align and snap together like magnets suddenly charged, and highest self protects us. Higher self gently reminds us all, over the roar of fear and pain, that mother role is wholesome, mother role is vital and good. This woman, our biological mother, she didn't get to find or know well enough her own selves to be able to fulfill that role. The roar gradually subsides, selves are re-centered. The charge is replaced by paced breathing.
The mother stands in front of the stove. In her right hand she holds the spatula and minds the contents of a cast iron skillet. Her left hand is propped on the back of her hip, bent upwards at the wrist. She balances a cigarette between her first two fingers in that effortless way that seduces the smoker upon each brief moment of recognition, like a beckoning kiss. The lit cigarette's presence is acknowledged, the hand moves to make fingers kiss lips, and the cigarette butt is the firm tongue parting those lips. The draw is pulled, the hand falls…..she shifts and turns. A single copper curl falls into the fame of a beautiful face. Clear olive toned skin, still fair in shade, is stretched over high cheekbones and a sharp but feminine nose. Eyelids delicately hood deep set yellow-green irises. And there is pain, much pain. I feel it for her. But it is hers, it is certainly hers. The dream images drop like billions of pixels turned to glowing sands and fall back into their waiting place to be made into other things, at other times, on other paths.
I turn away, and you are there, watching me in this place, in this memory, because you have followed me on this road. I am no longer child self, I am the self you perceive. I acknowledge you with words that I hope feel like holding your gaze, open, vulnerable, unassuming, having offered the truth of one road. I am comforted that you watched, and I sense you holding my gaze back. You didn't have to come with me. I couldn't have even told you why you should, but you did. There will be more places to go, there are always places to go. Most of the time, I can easily find my way to places I have already been. But I need to map the places I have yet to go. In each place I find myself I am able to draw in a bit more of the path ahead of me. In some cases I will want to know a totally new place, and I'll seek my bearings. I'll set my compass by the charge of my selves, all the ones that make the whole, aligned. And I'll do better about asking for directions when I need to.
My heart doesn't really want to be a drill. My heart wants to wonder. And I can move my feet in any realm I want. They become less distinguishable over time anyway, feet and realms both. I have many roads to travel. Some I know, some I have yet to imagine.
I turn and walk away. My footsteps, they sound like cards slapping against a the kitchen table. The road ahead of me is paved with beautiful spotted seashells. My eyes burn, but I force them open.


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Local sponsor Olympic Eagle Distributing to offer Chainline Brewing Company products at Beer Garden.
By now you should know who Katie Compton is. If you haven't heard of the cyclocross legend, she is currently on a 15-win streak at the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships.
All around good guy, Stephen Hyde, is the current Elite National Champ looking to make it 4-in-a-row this year.
5-time Olympian Katerina Nash discusses why and how she chose to be a clean athlete and the importance of inspiring the next generation of USA Cycling riders to train and compete clean.
We're all keeping an eye on Werner fighting for the top of the ProCX standings this year. Going into Nationals as one of the favorites, we talked to Kerry about his strive to the top.
Lindsay Goldman answers questions from the cycling community in an effort to provide transparency and support from the organization.
Our mission is to develop the sport of cycling in the United States at all levels by bringing together cyclists, coaches, event promoters, community leaders, volunteers, and fans to form communities of those who want to see the sport of cycling prosper. We harness the passion so many have for cycling and turn it into opportunities for us all to enjoy the sport together.
We identify, develop, and support athletes to represent the United States at the biggest events in the world, from the Tour de France to the Olympics. We're proud of the legacy of outstanding American cyclists we've helped create, and with your support, we can continue bringing promising talent from the neighborhood cul-de-sac to the Olympic podium.
Cycling is a rich and widely loved sport, but it needs protecting and nurturing. We partner with individuals and organizations to enhance cycling safety, advocate for cyclists rights, and promote the positive impact cycling has on individuals and communities across the country.
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Call it a summer slowdown in the showroom. Automakers are reporting much weaker-than-expected sales for the month, with some companies posting double-digit declines in business.
General Motors sales fell 15.5 percent compared to July of last year when industry sales were close to a record high. While some of the decline at GM can be attributed to a deliberate pullback in fleet sales to rental car companies, the automaker's retail sales at dealerships was almost as weak, falling 14.4 percent.
Meanwhile, Fiat Chrysler also saw a big drop in business last month, with sales falling 11 percent, far worse than the Edmunds.com estimate of a 7 percent decline. Ford was also weaker than expected, with a 7.4 percent drop in sales.
One reason for the decline is a drop in demand for trucks and SUVs, which have remained relatively strong even as the overall market has slowed down.
For example, Jeep sales fell 12.3 percent in July. GMC retail sales fell 9.3 percent, and Ford truck sales were down 7.1 percent.
As sales have slowed down, inventories have risen. General Motors ended the month with almost 940,000 vehicles in its inventory, or 104 days supply, well above the industry's traditional target of 65-70 days supply. GM blames some of that higher inventory on the automaker's plan to build more pickup trucks in the first half of the year to meet demand later this year when it shuts down pickup assembly lines to transition to new models.
Still, dealers across the industry are struggling to move new models as quickly as they would like. In July, it took an average of 76 days to "turn," or sell, a new vehicle. That is the highest days-to-turn rate since July of 2009 when industry sales were plunging due to the recession.
"In today's declining market, every sale counts," Caldwell said. "We anticipate automakers will continue to ramp up zero-percent finance offers as we get deeper into the summer sell-down season," said Jessica Caldwell, Edmunds executive director of industry analysis.


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Proposed legislation under consideration by the City Council would legalize motorized e-scooters and e-bikes in New York City. If the four bills pass and become law, they would make it easier for people to take advantage of emerging transportation options that are environmentally friendly. They would also put more scooters on the road.
Nighttime commutes put pedestrians in danger
The end of Daylight Saving Time means that many residents of New York will be making their evening commute in the dark. The diminished visibility puts both drivers and pedestrians at a higher risk for injury. Pedestrians are especially in danger in the early stages when they are trying to adjust to distractions like the glare from headlights and streetlamps.
Distracted driving laws seek to stop unsafe behavior
Drivers in New York may be worried about the impact of distracted driving on road safety. Despite warnings, public awareness campaigns and new laws, people continue to text, surf and chat on their smartphones while behind the wheel of their cars. Even public officials have been seen live streaming on Facebook while driving. However, the families of people who have been killed in crashes due to distracted driving are demanding tougher penalties and harsher enforcement for operating a vehicle while distracted.


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Home Design Minimalist Second Floor
Now, this design minimalist house was flourishing in our society, in addition to the minimalist shape, but if in the view appears reward and beautiful. With a minimalist home does not make us the wits to be creative with the ability we have. House with a minimalist design identical to bench small and narrow, but with a narrow land, we can actually do a lot of creations that home that we have to stand with fancy and pretty sure though limited by the narrow land.
There are so many things we need to prepare to build a dwelling, as the main thing is the money to build a house should be taken into account properly and mature, do not get in the way later we ran out of funds and of course the construction of houses will be stalled. In addition, our attention is also land on our house later would be made as to what, a lot we can creat it one example with a garden and pool less minimalist, though not great we could trim size so that our house looks more luxurious and beautiful.
In fact, we can choose to Exterior and interior fitting and appropriate to the needs that exist and need to fill our homes. In addition, we can also find references from anywhere, could be from friends, family, co-workers and also you can access the Internet. And for those of you who may want to become a narrow land area, what's wrong if you build a house in the form of a two-story level or more certainly look beautiful and magnificent.
For those of you who are currently looking for references to the instance-level house with a minimalist design, do not worry you do not have to feel confused because we'll give you an example of her house to you below, following the example of minimalist level:
How it looks very fancy is not it? and if you've got your home as reference material in the future? hopefully what we share with you all can benefit. Goodbye and thank you.


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This year I wanted to utilize my stockpile for a Back To School Teacher Gift for Peyton's teacher. It is another way to gift give without breaking the budget. By gifting from your stockpile you are able to brighten your teachers day on the first day of school without spending a lot out of pocket. I hope she enjoys it!
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I am a retired teacher and have doing this for the last 6 years..My granddaughter is in the 6th grade and I fix a teacher "goodie" bag each year (I also included one for the principal). Everything from toothpaste to pens. This year I watched for sales all summer and got some great buys for her classroom. Post It notes have some GREAT coupons..My Office Max had the Post It flags, tabs, label, etc. 2 for $6.(regular price 4.50 to 5.50 each). Post It coupons were 2.00. So I paid $1 a pack!!! You can print unlimited amounts, so I ended up with $500 worth of supplies and paid less than a $100 (used the 20 % bag and a few 10.00 office max coupons.) Also, had some $.55 coupons for bandaids..ended up with over 50 boxes of bandaids for the first aid room..paid less than $15!
great idea! I'm off to go through my stockpile.
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'What does the voice that says Slow Down have to say to you?
'Are you going too fast to remember the days that pass, are you spinning like a top, turning like a wheel, losing connection how your life is supposed to be.
Are you lost in your head, never truly there in the special moments of your life? Missing the pleasure, always something to do, someone to see.'
What does the voice of slow have to say, when it whispers gently to you? Does it ask you to stop rushing, juggling tasks, doing so much, pushing for more? Does it want you to rest a while? To savour moments in your life. To take a pause.
Do you heed its calling? Or choose to ignore its presence. Do you prefer to give attention to the other voice, the one that speaks louder, with more urgency in its tone?
You hear it say sharply, No, you can't stop. If you stop you may never get going again, others may think you aren't capable. You must not let anyone down. You have to keep going. Slowing down may mean you have failed.
Fast is better than Slow.
You don't have permission to pause.
In quieter moments you hear the gentle voice of slow calling again. You may feel its constant presence, its desire for you to be happy, to have abundance and joy in your life. It wants to free you up from of your continual driving of yourself. Help you see what you have inside that you can trust in. Show you how to challenge the other voice and its constant shoulds, must's, must nots and cants.
Falsely created rules that don't serve you.
What does your Voice of Slow want for you?


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At Circuito Chico Adventure, we are strongly motivated by the desire of sharing our passion for cycling, and that is why we want to make sure you enjoy the magnificent experience of visiting the best landscapes of Bariloche while you practice a healthy and rewarding sport. During summer, you can also sail Lake Moreno crystal clear waters with us, either on a kayak or on a SUP.
This self-guided tour begins at the entrance of the magnificent Circuito Chico, which is a 27km (17 mi) loop along a route with many ups, downs and curves, and it can be easily cycled in about 4h. of relaxed pedalling, with briefs stops and even some walking. Highlights of the tour are the two bridges with beautiful views toward the lakes Moreno and Nahuel Huapi, the renowned Panoramic Point, López Bay, Pañuelo Port, Llao Llao and the San Eduardo Chapel, and finally ending back at our store.
For the more adventurous, there are two dirt road detours: the first one goes to the historical town of Colonia Suiza (adding 6km -4 mi- and 1 h to the tour), where on Wednesdays and Sundays you can enjoy Curanto –a traditional kind of stew cooked underground- and other gastronomic offers, as well as an outdoor artisan craft market. The second detour takes you to Villa Tacul (adding 3km -2mi- and 1h to the tour), which is a picnic area with some arrayán trees.
We assure you it will be an unforgettable experience.
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– Brendan O'Farrell, DCN Diagnostics
"The discovery of immunoassay was part mathematics, part physics and part biology. I learned about biology from Sol (Solomon Berson) and he learned about physics from me."
– Rosalyn Yalow, co-inventor of radio-immunoassay and Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine in 1977.
Rosalyn Yalow was a key part of the team that invented the core technology that became the multi-billion-dollar immunoassay industry. Right from the start she recognized that the development of immunoassays required a collaborative approach and a mastery – or at least working knowledge – of numerous disciplines.
Jumping forward almost 60 years since the publication of the seminal Yalow and Berson paper on the immunoassay of endogenous plasma insulin1, this principle is more true than ever.
For example, take the development of a lateral flow assay system. One can identify a need for a knowledge of immunology, organic chemistry, materials science, fundamental biology, fluid dynamics, plastics, physics and optics. In addition, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of mechanical and design engineering, molding, manufacturing process design, and the myriad other disciplines that go into converting a conceptual assay into a usable, reproducible, robust, commercial product. That's before we even start thinking about regulation, trials, quality systems, user experience studies, validation, etc.!
Perhaps this is why there are so few places one can actually learn how to develop commercial lateral flow products outside of a few industrial sources like DCN. With this technology there truly is no substitute for experience when it comes to developing a product that can be robustly manufactured and produced to meet specifications in high volume. It's hard to find people who will pass on the benefit of their hard-won experience. As a result, it's tough to break into this industry from a standing start and sometimes even difficult to improve our knowledge base when we're already in it!
At DCN, we understand that fact, which is why we make such an effort to provide education and training services to the industry alongside our development services. We've taken an approach that many through the years have deemed counter-intuitive – an OEM company that actually teaches others how to do what it does. How crazy is that?
We believe that our clients put immense trust in our promise of delivery. Part of the process of building and maintaining that trust is transparency. Part of transparency is transferring information. We have always tried to help, in good faith to build this market and make our clients successful. As the market grows, we grow. That is why we offer Education and Training Courses in Lateral Flow Technology on a one-on-one basis with our clients.
It's also why we organize the Advanced Lateral Flow Course (ALFC) with our partners at QIAGEN Lake Constance. This seminar is designed to help educate the industry on the best development and manufacturing practices. It also connects our clients with our Verified Partner NetworkTM and encourages networking with each other. The ALFC this year will be held in San Diego on October 24-26. All of the details of the course for participants and sponsors are available now at www.dcnevents.com. Join us for the premier educational and networking opportunity in the lateral flow industry. Last year's course drew over 140 participants, 18 industrial sponsors and representatives from the premier technology, component and platform providers in the industry. This year will be bigger and better.
Collaboration and cooperation are essential to success in this industry. It really does take a village to bring a high performance lateral flow test to the market. Come meet the neighbors.
- Yalow, RS; Berson, SA (1960). "Immunoassay of endogenous plasma insulin in man". J Clin Invest 39: 1157–75. doi:1172/JCI104130. PMC441860. PMID 13846364.


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I recently purchased some nice headphones for riding the bus. I really like them, but this review isn't about headphones. The amount of ink people spill covering headphones should cause you pause. In reality, most of it comes down to preference. As much as I love my headphones, I discovered their fatal flaw when I tried to use them at work. For just about any pair of good headphones, if your connection isn't a high quality source, you'll notice it. When I connected my headphones to the generic workstation at my desk, I immediately noticed a distinct difference in sound. You can fix this problem by replacing your computer's soundcard, but that won't help with your work computer. A more realistic option may be a desktop headphone amplifier.
The best desktop headphone amplifier
After hours of research, I concluded that the best desktop headphone amplifier is the Monoprice Desktop Headphone Amplifier. With a list price of $112 ($104.44 at the time of publishing), it fits well within most budgets. The Monoprice amplifier includes a Texas Instruments Digital to Analog Converter (DAC). The built-in DAC effectively turns the amplifier into an external soundcard that supports high-resolution, 24-bit audio sampled at 96 kHz. It uses USB 2.0 and connects effortlessly to both Macs and Windows PCs without special drivers. The amplifier requires an external power adapter; good sound often requires extra juice.
The high-current output uses a 1/4" connector. You may need a 3.5mm adapter depending on the requirements of your headphones. It has low and high gain modes and supports headphone impedances of 16 ~ 600 ohms. I have efficient headphones; I keep the gain setting on low and never turn the volume knob above 50%. If your headphones are power hungry, you may want to look elsewhere for something more adept at driving your cans.
The best desktop headphone amplifier/DAC combo features both pre-out and line out for connecting to a different amplifier or powered studio monitors respectively. I can't use speakers in my current work environment, but I would definitely use the feature if I worked from home. This flexibility also accommodates an upgraded desktop setup. You can replace the amplifier while still using the Monoprice as your primary DAC — great news if you're just getting into personal audio and don't want to break the bank right away.
When I first connected it to my HP workstation, the difference between the low-quality sound card and the best desktop headphone amplifier blew me away. It was like going from FM radio to listening to the same song on a CD. This is largely the result of the external DAC. I also tried it on a MacBook Pro. The difference in sound quality was negligible. This wasn't surprising to me; Apple typically uses high-quality components. Even without the quality improvement, I still like using the Monoprice amplifier's physical volume knob at my desk. I also like having the unit connected to my docking station.
About that volume knob… some reviewers criticized its quality. They noted an elliptical rotation rather than a smooth circle. My unit did not exhibit this behavior. If you order it from Amazon, you can easily return it for a different one. Other people noted that the blue status LED is too bright. In my experience, the LED brightness wasn't an issue in my office environment, but it could be annoying in a bedroom. If this is a concern for you, use LightDims to tone down the brightness. Alternatively, a little permanent marker goes a long way. Even with these minor complaints, I am extremely satisfied with the product. I would definitely call them the best desktop headphone amplifier for most people.
The best desktop headphone amplifier alternative
In the personal audio community, people know Fiio for providing stellar products at reasonable prices. If the price of the Monoprice is too high or you require something more portable, I recommend the Fiio E10K ($75.99). Similar to the Monoprice amplifier, it includes a DAC. However, it sacrifices maximum power output in favor of portability. The E10K is a USB-powered device. It's easy to take with you for library study sessions or potential mate scouting at your local coffee shop of choice.
A few upgrades to get you going
If you are looking to really amp up your game, I recommend upgrading to Schiit's line of products. At this level, the sky is the limit in terms of quality and cost. I'd keep using the excellent DAC in the Monoprice desktop amplifier but add the Magni's incredibly clean power to the mix. The Magni 2 Uber ($149) is a great amplifier that upgrades the overall output in conjunction with the Monoprice unit. If I were going to update the DAC as well, I'd snag the Modi 2 Uber ($149). It's a versatile DAC that supports sample rates up to 24/192. It includes TOSLINK and Optical output for a variety of uses beyond just feeding your desktop rig. Both of the Schiit products, come in regular or "Uber" configuration. Make sure you buy the "Uber" configuration for the best experience.
Best desktop headphone amplifier conclusion
There are many ways to spend your money on personal audio. It's intimidating to wade through the multitude of products when you're just starting out. If this is your first venture into personal audio, I'm confident that the best desktop headphone amplifier is the Monoprice Desktop Headphone Amplifier. As with all of our product reviews, we hope our pick works well for you. We welcome all feedback and product review suggestions. If you think we should consider another option for our best desktop headphone amplifier recommendation, please let us know in the comments.


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The cornerstone for everything in Yolanda's life is community. Consciously nurturing relationships and community building, whether it be in the refugee community, literacy promoting and literary communities, spiritual and healing communities, or embodiment practice communities is what Yolanda sees as essential.
Day by day, Yolanda strives to co-create, deepen and widen with others a culture of trust, creative inquiry, and deep respect for self, others and the Earth that sustains us.
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A physician who played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and later served as its interim president has died.
Vainutis Kazimieras Vaitkevicius, "Dr. Vee," 90, died Dec. 24, 2017, at Omega House Hospice in Houghton, Michigan.
He lived in Oakland County for many years before moving to Houghton last year.
He was born Jan. 12, 1927, in Kaunas, Lithuania. His father, Henrikas Vaitkevicius, was an architectural engineer who died in forced exile in the Ural Mountains, after being arrested for his political convictions. His mother, Kamilija Zakaviciute, was a nurse who spent years in Siberian labor camps protecting his brothers.
In 1941, he was separated from his family when he narrowly escaped KGB organized mass arrests that led to the exile of the rest of his family. Finding himself alone, he was sheltered by his grandfather, Vytautas Zakavicius, who was trained as a physician and a botanist. Dr. Vee often spoke about the early lessons he learned from his grandfather, who was executed by the Nazis after he was found to have hidden Jewish children.
Dr. Vee later lived with his aunt, Dr. Jadvyga Zakaviciute, a prominent physician in Lithuania. To avoid the ongoing forced conscriptions by the Nazis, she fictitiously diagnosed Dr. Vee with tuberculosis and hid him in a quarantined ward.
As World War II was moving across Lithuania, it became unsafe to remain there, and by the end of 1944, Dr. Vee found himself in a Lithuanian refugee camp outside of Frankfurt, Germany. While there, he was instrumental in establishing a secondary school for Lithuanian refugees; he was an alumnus of the school.
In 1951, he graduated from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt Medical School and moved to Detroit for post-graduate training. Two years later, he began a two-year stint in the U.S. Army, where he achieved the rank of captain.
In 1955, he enrolled in residency programs at Detroit Grace Hospital and Detroit Receiving Hospital and later completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Detroit Institute for Cancer Research.
He later served as an attending physician in oncology services at Henry Ford Hospital and was appointed assistant professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine.
In 1962, he was named clinical director at the Detroit Institute for Cancer Research. In 1966 was appointed associate professor at Wayne State and became the Director of Wayne's new Division of Conjoint Services and Curriculum in Oncology.
He received numerous awards in teaching over the years and was recognized for his work with cancer patients.
In 1982, he was named physician-in-chief at the Detroit Medical Center and chief of medicine at Harper Grace Hospital.
Two years later, President Bill Clinton appointed Dr. Vee to the National Cancer Advisory Board in Bethesda, Maryland.
In 1995, he played a pivotal role in establishment of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and later became medical director of the home care and hospice. In 2000, he was named interim president of the Karmanos Cancer Institute as well as interim chief of Wayne's Division of Hematology-Oncology.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Ingeborg, and survived by his children: Eva Marks, Camille, Henrikas, Peter, Walter and Martin.
Visitation will be held Monday, Jan. 1st from 2-8 p.m., with a 4 p.m. prayer service at the Sullivan & Son Funeral Home, 705 W. 11 Mile Road, Royal Oak. He will lie in state Tuesday, Jan. 2 from 9:30 a.m. until the funeral Mass at 10 a.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church, 730 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Karmanos Cancer Center.
-- Anne Runkle, The Oakland Press


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OGF offspring from three separate bulls (Allen, Trailblazer & Confederate) did exceptionally well in the October Regional AMD show where ten breeders, exhibiting 31 AMD, competed for top honors.
OGF also placed first in the Dam & Daughter and Breeders Herd classes. OGF recieved the Premier Breeder Award, based on cumulated points.
In the Virginia State Fair Dairy Show, Mercy was selected as the Senior Champion and Grand Champion Female. OGF Virginia Constantina was awarded Junior Champion Female.
Constantina & Mercy
Participating for the first time in the Virginia State Fair Dairy Show, OGF Carolina Borgia was selected as Junior Champion and Grand Champion. OGF Carolina Bonnie was awarded Reserve Junior Champion.
OGF Carolina Borgia
Kadi and Luke had a fantastic show at the 2017 Festival. Competing against 17 other Longwool breeders, together they received nine blue ribbons, Champion Ram, Best Fleece in Show (OGF Lincoln) and Champion Ewe (OGF Laura) in the white Longwool division and Reserve Champion Ram and Best Fleece in Show (OGF Lucas) in the colored Longwool division. They were also awarded the Premier Exhibitor Award.
Grandson Luke joined his sister Kadi in the show ring at the 2016 Festival. Competing against 13 other longwool breeders, together they received eight blue ribbons, Champion Ram and Best Fleece in Show (OGF Karnak) in the white longwool division and Reserve Champion Ram and Best Fleece in Show (OGF Kendel) in the colored longwool division.
In the Fleece Show, OGF was honored with: Best Leicester Longwool Fleece awards in both the white and colored longwool divisions.
In 2015 OGF turned a page in its breeds' conservation plan with our granddaughter Kadi showing sheep for the first time. Her efforts were rewarded with OGF Jefferson receiving the Best Fleece in Show honors in the white longwool division.
Fleece show awards included:
Three OGF Rams received "Blue Cards" in the Leicester Card-Grading:
We are honored that for the 8th consecutive year an OGF yearling was selected for the Best Fleece in Show honors in the white longwool division at the 2013 MS&WF.
We are particularly pleased that for the second time (2011) in the past four years an OGF ram was selected for the Supreme Champion Fleece award from over 1,200 sheep at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival (MS&WF). Below is a summary of awards that OGF sheep have garnered in the past eight years.
We are sometimes asked, how much weight should a prospective buyer give to the show record of an individual ewe or ram? The answer is simple. On a particular day, that individual animal was the best in the ring in the professional opinion of a judge. The results of one show are not necessarily a guarantee of quality breeding or superior genetics.
Cumulatively, over a period of years, show results can be a reliable predictor of a high probability of genetic replication. Simply stated, a flock that consistently places at or near the top of its classes, representing the professional opinion of many judges over many years (and thus successive generations of sheep), offers a much greater likelihood that the offspring from this flock will be the same high quality as the individual ram or ewes you are considering purchasing.
For an unprecedented fifth consecutive year (2006 – 2010), OGF received the Best Fleece in Show honors with OGF Sir Edmond at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival (MS&WF). He was also named the white longwool Champion Ram.
In the fleece show, OGF received:
OGF Leicester Longwools continued their tradition of excellence at two major fleece festivals in 2009. For the forth consecutive year one of our yearlings(OGF Dante)was selected as the Best Fleece in Show, white longwool, at the 2009 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival (MS&WF). OGF Dante was also awarded Best Leicester Longwool Fleece at the New York State Sheep & Wool Festival.
OGF Dante, Darwin and Duncan received three of only five Blue Cards (Excellent) awarded to yearling rams & ewes at the 2nd National Leicester Longwool Card-Grading Exhibition at Rhinebeck, NY in October. Our two ewe lambs, OGF Eleanor and Emma were awarded a Blue Card (Excellent) and a Red Card (Good) respectively.
Each sheep was evaluated individually by the three judge panel - Lee Parson from England, Brenton Heazlewood from Australia and Dr. Sponenberg from Virginia Tech. Below OGF Duncan is evaluated for his Blue Card.
Perhaps the most exciting event for us at Rhinebeck was watching the First-Sunday Group use a white and two colored OGF fleeces to card, spin, and weave their way to a second place award in the Fleece-to-Shawl competition. OGF Dante and Darwin inspect the completed shawl, held by Bonnie Warwick, made from their spring fleeces.
OGF's Leicester Longwools received top honors at the 2008 MS&WF. We were honored to have one of our yearling rams, OGF Churchill, selected as the Supreme Champion Fleece at MS&WF. Dr. Michael Salisbury in announcing the judges' selection for the Supreme Champion Fleece award said, "While there are many excellent fleeces here today representing the best of each breed, this was an easy decision for us. One fleece just stands out and is superior to all the others – the Leicester Longwool ram exhibited by Donna Larson from Old Gjerpen Farm."
If you are not familiar with the MS&WF, more than 1,200 wool-breed sheep, exhibited by approximately 200 breeders from around the country, compete for honors in 17 individual breed shows at the Festival. At the conclusion of each breed show one sheep is selected Best Fleece-in Show. At the conclusion of the Festival the 17 Best Fleece-in Show animals competed for the Supreme Champion Fleece award.
We entered four Leicesters in the 2008 MS&WF. Competing in the White and Colored Longwool shows against 87 sheep representing 30 farms, OGF's Leicester Longwools received six significant awards:
Champion Ram and Best Fleece-in Show – White Long Wool
Champion Ewe – White Long Wool
Reserve Champion Ram – White Long Wool
Reserve Champion Ram and Best Fleece-in Show – Natural Colored Long Wool
2008 was the third consecutive year that our Leicester Longwools were singled out for their superior fleeces at the MS&WF. OGF Annabelle (R 483) and OGF Lord Applebee (R 10214) received the Best Fleece-in Show awards for the White Long Wool shows in 2006 and 2007.
Our breeding for quality has been consistently recognized throughout our three years of showing Leicester Longwools.
In 2006, at the 33rd Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, OGF Leicester Longwools competed for honors with 41 other long wools representing five breeds and 18 breeders. Dr. David Cook awarded OGF:
At the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival, competing with 25 breeds of sheep representing 18 farms, Dr. Geof Ruppert awarded OGF:
An OGF Leicester Longwool fleece was awarded "Best of Show" at the 2006 Virginia State Fair.
OGF participated in the 15th Anniversary Celebration of the reintroduction of Leicester Longwool Sheep into the U.S. held at the 2005 MS&WF. The highlight of the Celebration was the "card grading" of the 35 Leicester Longwools exhibited by 13 LLSBA members. Three judges from New Zealand, England and Virginia Tech judged each animal against the breed standard and awarded either a blue card (Excellent), red card (Good), yellow card (Acceptable) or white card (Unacceptable). OGF was pleased to receive blue cards on both of its two ewes: CWL Freedom and CWL Liberty.
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DEERFIELD, Ill.--Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE: FBHS), an industry-leading home and security products company, today announced its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $400 million of shares of the Company's common stock over the next two years on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions in accordance with applicable securities laws. The purchases, if made, will occur from time to time depending on market conditions.
"We have deployed approximately $1.9 billion of capital from 2012 through 2015, but we believe that we can deploy an additional $2.0 billion to $2.5 billion to drive incremental value as the housing market continues to recover to mid-cycle levels over the next three years," said Chris Klein, chief executive officer, Fortune Brands.
The newly announced share repurchase authorization does not obligate the Company to repurchase any dollar amount or number of shares of common stock. This authorization is in effect until February 16, 2018, and may be suspended or discontinued at any time.
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Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE: FBHS), headquartered in Deerfield, Ill., creates products and services that help fulfill the dreams of homeowners and help people feel more secure. The Company's trusted brands include MasterBrand cabinets, Moen faucets, Therma-Tru entry door systems, and Master Lock and SentrySafe security products. Fortune Brands holds market leadership positions in all of its segments. Fortune Brands is part of the S&P MidCap 400 Index. For more information, please visit www.FBHS.com.
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A week has passed since I started working for my new job and what can I say? I honestly have a lot of things in mind, but I'm not too sure if I am at a liberty to voice out everything here. So I guess I would have just to be more discerning of what I would be posting when it comes to my work. It was not out of fear because we had a gag order or something like that, but it was a pretense of professionalism from my part. Kidding! All jokes aside, I am definitely enjoying with everything. 🙂
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Afghanistan isn't always about the Taliban: The Kite Runner
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When was the last time you cried while watching a movie? I just did and I can't even recall when I last teared up prior to this one. This is one hardcore movie and only the stone-hearted won't well up. Based from Khaled Hosseini's novel of the same name, The Kite Runner was shown in theaters way back in 2007. Unfortunately, it wasn't commercially released here in the Philippines (afaik).
It was like Atonement but in a different geographic location and time period. What will you do to amend the things you have done when you had wronged another person? It is a story of friendship and loyalty as explained through the eyes of a then-child and a war refugee. Amir and Hassan's friendship is slightly twisted and Baba's paternal authority and conviction is something to admire. Ever since the Taliban brought new interest to Afghanistan in 2001 at the height of the "War on Terror" (through infamy on the West, definitely), all we know now is the war-torn, poverty-stricken side of that region. Little do we know that Kabul once flourished as one of the most progressive and burgeoning cities in the Middle East prior to the Soviet occupation (Kabul is one of the cities along the 'silk road').
Set in the beautiful snow-covered mountain ranges of Afghanistan (but in fact, they were not allowed to shoot there but improvise on a Chinese territory), the movie depicted culture and politics in a viscerally humane way. It puts things into perspective about how do we conceive culture, though. Ethnic wars, Hazaras versus Pashtuns, who is more superior, the question of nationality and who takes precedence in a given land. Things like that. For instance, one part of the movie showed a young boy (Hassan's son and Amir's nephew… they were brothers!) made to dance in front of the men, wearing bells and other adornments to the spectators delight is considered to be part of Afghan culture —- bacha bazi (English = "boy play"). It has long been outlawed but the practice still goes on and these young boys are continually exploited (emotionally and EVEN sexually!) by the grown up men. But how can you ensure that such measures will be upheld in the war-torn area? Implementation of such rules are not always strictly followed. It is very sad and disheartening and I was also able to watch this documentary available on YouTube, chronicling the practice of bacha bazi in present day Afghanistan and other Middle East countries.
Similar to other adaptations, I see the movie first and pass judgment before reading the book. I got hold of a copy of The Kite Runner and has already finished reading it. The wealth of description in the book is amazing, but I won't take it against the movie because movies can only translate so much. The Kite Runner is nevertheless amazing.
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For years, I've been hearing about George Orwell's "Animal Farm" but it was only last week that I've bothered reading it.
Pardon my ignorance but I initially thought that the title was just metaphorical and the characters were human. However, after reading a spoiler-free synopsis of the book, the characters were indeed animals so it definitely tickled my fancy.
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It's already 3:00 AM and I just finished organizing ALL of my readings for 12 subjects, all the way from 2009 when I started graduate school. I will be waking by quarter to nine and will leave the house by 9:40 AM and hopefully will study in the library until quarter to two.
I've been sneezing since lunch time when I started fixing these readings and I'm having a relapse because I added the ones I brought home from the office. I have already developed a strategy for studying in mind and hopefully it will work.


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What started out as the search for a killer very quickly becomes something so much more. In a unique story alongside the events of the second film, Spider-Man discovers he's not the only one tracking down Manhattan's criminals. The underworld has been turned upside down with a one man campaign of violence and murder that is has captured the city in an iron grip of fear. Villains from the film as well as fan-favorite, classic Marvel characters are woven together in a twisted web of adrenaline-fueled, free-roaming, web-slinging action that puts players on a collision course with an evil far beyond Spider-Man's reckoning.
- Play as Peter Parker: Play as Spider-Man's citizen alter-ego persona as you investigate the motivations of multifaceted villains.
- All-Star Villain Cast: Wide cast of Spider-Man universe and movie villains, each with their own unique boss battle encounters.
- All New Web Arsenal: New web-swing mechanic includes expanded web-shooter capabilities and chemical properties that allow you to freeze and blow up items on impact.
- Expansive NYC: Explore and take on villains in a more expansive Manhattan cityscape than the previous Amazing Spider-Man.
- New Heroism System: "Hero or Menace" system rewards you for acting as Spider-Man by stopping crime and saving citizens, but face the consequences if you don't keep down crime rates.
- Advanced Combat & Upgrades: New abilities and expanded fast-paced, acrobatic combat moves bring players up close and personal as Spidey takes down foes.
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- Alternative Titles
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Platform
- PlayStation 4
- Developer(s)
- Beenox
- Publisher(s)
- Activision
- Genre(s)
- Action, Adventure
- NA Release Date
- April 29, 2014
- JP Release Date
- September 4, 2014
- EUR Release Date
- May 2, 2014
- AUS Release Date
- May 7, 2014
- ESRB Rating
- PEGI Rating
- 16
- CERO Rating
- ACB Rating
- MVGL User Score
- 5.7 by 25 User(s)
- MVGL Difficulty Rating
- Medium by 4 User(s)
- Composer
- Samuel Laflamme
- Official Website
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Grattan Scholars - News
2018 Grattan Scholarships awarded to postgraduate students in Political Science and SociologySchool of Social Sciences and Philosophy´s prestigious scholarship has been awarded to Miceal Canavan (Political Science) and Stefanie Sprong (Sociology). They join Scholars from 12 countries around the world who are committed to understanding and improving society through their research and teaching.
Grattan Scholar awarded best research paper by European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI)Congratulations to Katharina Bergant who was presented with the best paper award, for her work on international capital flows at the security level - evidence from the ECB's asset purchase programme, at the recent ECMI annual conference.
2014 Scholar joins Oxford´s Department of International DevelopmentRecent graduate, Margaryta Klymak has been appointed Lecturer in Development Economics at the University of Oxford. Margaryta´s Grattan Scholarship enabled her to undertake research on child and forced labour in developing countries during her PhD studies.
Grattan Scholar selected for International Monetary Fund's Economist Program (EP) in Washington DC2014 Scholar Yannick Timmer has secured a place on the IMF's main entry program for young, bright economists who want to accelerate their careers, gain exposure to a cross-section of Fund work, and apply their research and analysis to policy work that impacts the Fund's 189 member countries.
2013 Grattan Scholar appointed to Teaching Fellow position at Trinity CollegeTrinity's Department of Political Science recently welcomed Dr Lisa Keenan to its staff as a Teaching Fellow. Lisa, who researches predominantly on women in politics, was awarded a prestigious Grattan Scholarship in 2013 for her PhD studies.
Grattan Scholarships Awarded in Energy Economics and International DevelopmentScholarships are awarded to PhD students of outstanding talent from around the world, with 16 scholarships having been awarded to students from 11 countries since the programme was established in 2012.
Grattan Scholar Margaryta Klymak wins teaching awardDevelopment economics Phd Student recognised for her outstanding commitment to achieving excellence in teaching and learning.
Grattan Scholar Christina Kinghan co-authors book chapter on the Vietnamese economyGrowth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam published by Oxford University Press in February 2017.
Grattan Scholars' research addresses the major challenges of our timeFourteen scholarships have now been awarded since the programme was established in 2012. Scholars are undertaking valuable research which addresses issues such as migration, development, inequality and financial globalisation.
Grattan Scholar awarded best research paper by European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI )Congratulations to Yannick Timmer who was invited to present his award winning paper at the recent ECMI annual conference.
Grattan Scholars Recognised as Inspiring EducatorsAlan Walsh received McAleese Teaching Award Medal and Lisa Keenan, Purnima Kanther and Christina Kinghan presented with Certificates of Achievement.
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Over the past year or so, I've been seeing SamCart everywhere. Cart For Shopping
As an internet entrepreneur, I pay extra careful attention to the shopping carts that people are utilizing and I started noticing more people using SamCart.
Then I started seeing ads from SamCart, so that I signed up to their email list. I got a couple of mails from their support being hyped up by them, therefore I decided to give it a shot.
So, Can it live this up into the hype? Here's my honest SamCart review.
What Is SamCart?
SamCart is a checkout platform Includes conversion-optimized checkout templates together with upsell, arrange subscription, bulge and payment plan capacities that are designed to maximize profits.
How SamCart Works
Here are the Specific steps that SamCart walks You through to help you market your products on the web:
Add a new product (electronic or physical)
Select the payment structure you want (either a one-time payment, payment program, or subscription)
choose the checkout page template you would like (SamCart's templates are amazing and they have been demonstrated to convert)
Customize the checkout pages to match your personal site and manufacturer
Insert upsells, create coupons, split-tests, etc..
If you're a person that wants to set up a shopping cart quickly and easily, SamCart is for you. You are able to wake up and running in under thirty minutes. I put my stuff up in about twenty minutes, but that's probably because I saw a YouTube videos about it beforehand.
Click here to begin your SamCart trial.
SamCart Characteristics
The reason that SamCart has managed to Grow is because they provide numerous features that assist retailers earn more cash. Whether youselling information products or're running an e-commerce store, these attributes can allow you to make money and have SamCart pay for itself quickly.
Affiliate Center
Among the greatest things about selling products on the internet is that you could enlist an whole army of affiliates to promote your stuff. You don't have to spend time promoting your products, nor do you need to spend a dime. You simply pay them if they create a purchase for you, if you're able to get the term to be spread by affiliates. Cart For Shopping
SamCart lets you create your personal army of affiliates that will sell your goods for you with the Affiliate Center. SamCart automatically generates an Affiliate Signup page for you – that is where others can apply to advertise your products.
You'll find a URL for this page, so you may send it out to prospective affiliates, place it on your site, or send it out to your email list. I invite them to become affiliates whenever my subscribers go months without buying anything from me. Hey, if they aren't buying anything, it's still a way for me to gain from them.
When a possible affiliate fills your program, they'll be shown a message that their accounts is"pending approval". You'll get a notification which they implemented via email when that happens. It'll also have buttons to approve or deny the person's application. If you want you may set this up to accept affiliates.
SamCart's default affiliate commission is 50 percent. But you can customize this payout to anything you want. You may pay your affiliates a flat rate commission (a set dollar amount per purchase ) or a percentage. I have had a lot of success by increasing the affiliate payout for top-performing affiliates to provide them an incentive to market more.
Checkout Pages
One of the coolest things about SamCart is they have 18 professionally designed templates which are proven to convert. I really don't think all the templates are great, but I do love almost all of them. My favourite is the template that is traditional.
The obvious big advantage here is that the templates are used by other proven marketers, so it is possible to stay away from the innumerable hours of designing and testing your own pages.
All the templates have trust components like reviews, warranties, and safety reassurances that provide your clients the reassurance they will need to enhance your conversions.
Once you choose your checkout page, then it is easy to personalize it by changing the colors of the header, footer, buttons, etc.. You might also choose the fields you would like to include and you can add custom bullet points to describe the product your client is buying (I have found bullet points to be especially useful, which is why you see them on all my earnings pages).
All of the pages are mobile responsive, which is very significant within our ever-increasingly mobile globe. One reason I switched to SamCart was since my prior page provider was not as responsive as I wanted it to be. Cart For Shopping
I do a lot of advertising on Google AdWords, in which most of my traffic comes from mobile. I found that with my old cart, folks were abandoning. SamCart helped my boost my conversions from cellular.
Plus, they have a cool"sandbox" mode, which enables you make sure everything is working before going live with your product. With my cart, test it and I had to publish everything. I hated doing this. Together with SamCart, I can test payments without going live and without charging your credit card (and messing up your stats).
One Click Upsells
Once I told my friends that I was composing a SamCart review, they told me that I must stress how amazing their one click upsells are, and that I agree.
If you're selling on the internet and you are not offering upsells, you're leaving a great deal of money on the table. In reality, back in 2006, Amazon reported that 35% of its revenues were from its efforts. Don't you think it deserves your consideration if Amazon is earning that much money from it?
An upsell is a technique that helps you increase your average order value. You probably upsells all of the time and do not even understand it. You do not need to get the elongated warranty for your car, but it is there as an upsell for those who don't want to worry about maintenance. Restaurants sure like to offer it, although you do not HAVE to have dessert after dinner.
Continuing with the dessert case, these little $8 cakes aren't a massive amount of money, but if you're the restaurant selling tons of these every night, the money adds up.
SamCart causes this procedure seamless by providing upsells where all the customer has to do is click a single button and buy your offer. In accordance with these, SamCart users who utilize one click upsells typically increase their average client value by a whopping 68.1%. Cart For Shopping
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One Page Checkout
This attribute is unique as it offers you the ability to add several different payment options onto a single checkout page. For my 997 online course, I utilize Teachable, and even they don't offer this feature. When a customer wants the payment program, I have to have separate checkout pages. I WISH I could use SamCart for that.
The one page voucher takes multiple payments into a whole new level because it keeps traffic on the webpage while they determine how to pay. If you've ever sold anything on the internet, you understand how important it's to keep your visitors on the page.
Cross Selling Bumps
Cross-selling is a strategy to sell products which are related to the one the customer already owns. A cross-sell would be gas or car insurance if a customer buys a vehicle from you.
You might be familiar with this as bundling. When you package the main merchandise and auxiliary products together, you are able to raise your profits. McDonald's does by purchasing fries and drinks with their 14, so well.
Subscription Saver
When I started selling subscription products on the internet, I was naive enough to think that everybody would pay on time, every moment. I figured that if I had been good enough honor my duties and to pay my bills, so would everybody else.
Boy, was I naive. Figuring out that there are some losers. Individuals who decline cancel credit cards to get out of making payments or charges. Your subscription income is already gone once this happens. Barring any legal action (like sending a demand letter… in case you have the customer's address) you can not receive your money. Sad.
But now with SamCart, your subscriptions have been guarded from declined obligations and expired credit cards. A payment fails, SamCart sends your customer an email on your behalf – that the email has a link where customers can update the payment they have on file . This means that you don't need to waste your precious time hounding your customers .
If a customer fails to update the payment information after several attempts, SamCart automatically cancels the subscription. SamCart marks them as"delinquent" in your accounts so that you know who they are and so you've got the chance to reach out to those customers. Cart For Shopping
A/B Testing
Is not it weird that people talk about split testing their revenue pages, their opt-in pages, their email subject lines, and much more… but they do not ever speak about examining their homepage?
It appears mad, right?
If you figure that most of your potential customers are abandoning your checkout site, don't you believe a half-decent split test might let you get yet another customer??
I do too.
Luckily, SamCart offers the capacity to conduct live split tests. This is wonderful. If you've got your split-testing snags you just ONE extra customer and a 90% abandonment rate, you will effectively double your sales. Yes, DOUBLE SALES. Just like this.
SamCart enables you to change any setting you need, so you can test any variation that tickles your fancy. You can alter the template, try a different guarantee (I have discovered that the longer, the better), eliminate some fields (I've discovered the less, the greater ), and much more.
Once you've got your variations created, SamCart automatically tests involving your variations. You don't have to do anything except watch the results roll in. You can head over to the"AB Test" part from the item's preferences to observe how the variations do. Once you locate a winner, SamCart allows you to disable the failure.
The one thing you can not split-test using SamCart is the product's cost. Run a test between these two products and you are going to need to create two different products, if you want to do that.
Once it comes to A/B analyzing, experience tells me that you ought to test the major stuff first (like completely different templates) and then work your way down to the minute particulars. Oh, and always wait till you have a statistically significant sample size until you call it a day.
Why Many Pages Suck
Based on what study you read, 80 percent of people Which"add to cart" in your website will abandon that cart. You may add a substantial amount of cash to your bottom line, if you can get a small amount of these people to convert.
SamCart can assist you to boost conversions. Cart For Shopping
SamCart's entire value proposition is their checkout page templates have been analyzed to the gills and they have been proven to convert more compared to their competitors. Should you sell things online, you want to make sure you're optimizing your conversions, and SamCart can help you do so.
Plus, most checkout pages are not built to maximize the total amount of profit which you get from every sell. Matters such as order lumps and upsells enable you to add more profit.
For example, I sell a $97 PDF on my site. I would not have the ability to add an upsell When I used a typical voucher form. Because I offer an upsell, roughly one out of every three individuals take my offer .
Due to the one simple feature, I am adding an average of $20 to each and every order of the item. That's like giving myself over a 20% raise simply. Which means I can spend an additional $20 on advertising to acquire a client and develop my business.
My Beloved SamCart Feature
My SamCart feature is hands-down the Training and customer support that they provide. They have tons of videos in what's known as their"Knowledge Base" which teaches you how you can use their software (although it's already fairly easy) and they supply a lot of instruction about the best way best to make more money if you are selling online.
They have a complete library of product info, tutorials, webinars, and much more. The education is well worth the price. I needed to include this fact in my SamCart review.
SamCart Integrations
I didn't have a Opportunity to incorporate SamCart using a Lot of resources because I don't use that many. I use utilize OptinMonster, Drip, PayPal and Stripe.
Interested in learning more about OptinMonster? Check out my review . I wrote a review of this if you're interested in knowing more about Drip.
SamCart lets you seamlessly sync with a lot of tools, such as email, marketing automation, registration, and payment processing. It was super easy for me to integrate my entire system together with SamCart and I imagine it would be the exact same for the majority of people out there.
I've been reading on various forums how easy it was for people to integrate Kajabi, Infusionsoft, Hubspot, MailChimp, Aweber, and much more. My toolbox is rather straightforward, so I can not talk about this in depth in my SamCart review. Cart For Shopping
How Much Can SamCart Price?
SamCart has three Distinct strategies:
Basic ($19 per month)
Pro ($99 a month)
Premium ($199 per month)
Even SamCart is a complete steal with the features they provide you. I've discovered that the Basic is great enough for many online entrepreneurs, but if you are doing a great deal of business online, you wish to acquire the Pro program.
Also keep in mind that if you are looking to save a little money, they offer you a discount if you pay yearly. I suggest that you make the most of the free trial (to make sure it's definitely suitable for you) and then paying yearly to save money. If you pay yearly, the Pro program is $888 per year (that saves you $300) and the Premium plan is $1,788 per year (which saves you $600).
SamCart Offers a 14-Day Free Trial (and Money-Back Gurantee)
If you are on the fence about trying SamCart, they Provide a completely free trial.
This usually means that you can try them out absolutely free, and if they don't make you more money than your previous cart (or you simply hate it for some reason) then it's possible to fire them. You can cancel and walk off.
Plus, they have a 30-day 100% money-back guarantee anyhow, further reducing the risk.
According to SamCart, the typical SamCart seller makes up to 5X over the average seller on different platforms. What do you have to lose? Begin now. Cart For Shopping
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Suddenly I am all alone. My friends are either asleep, lulled by the Suffolk air and the bottles of 1994 Quinta do Noval Nacional we've steadily been working on these past hours. Or they're upstairs, enjoying the bevy of hookers left over from September's Viennafair that I've flown in especially for these 72-hour New Year bacchanals…


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Days remaining until Anna's due date have now dipped into the 30's. It seems all I can think about is her impending birth, and how I wish it was more impending than it is.
I'm definitely aware of my size. Not in a self-loathing kind of way, but in a wow-this-is-annoyingly-uncomfortable kind of way. I'd rather gain 75 lbs and only be pregnant for 4 months than gain 35ish and be pregnant for 9.5 months.
Supposedly, there are women out there who LOVE being pregnant. I read about it. In a book. (Dodgeball reference, for those who don't know.) I've actually met one of these women in real life. And if you've never had a baby before, but are considering having one in the future, I sincerely hope you are one of those freaks that loves being pregnant. But I am not.
Nights are especially fun right now. I wake up often-every 1-2 hrs; more often if Lexi is in a calling out kind of mood. Most of the time I just need to roll over to
get comfortable be able to tolerate resting again. The pregnant lady roll is more like a workout than a casual toss. First, I take a deep breath. Then I let out a grunt as I use all 4 limbs to clumsily move my body toward the other side of the bed. And it all ends with a whine as my hamstring and nerves in my belly light up like they are on fire.
But it never ends there.
Somehow, Anna puts more pressure on my bladder when I lay down. So every time I wake up to roll over, I HAVE to go pee or I can't fall back asleep. And every time I sit up/lay back down, I HAVE to pop a Tums to combat the ensuing heartburn. And once or twice each night, just for giggles, I become keenly aware of how STARVING I am. To the point that I have considered eating Elian's arm just because I didn't think I could make it to the kitchen before dying of hunger.
Some people say all this waking up during the last trimester is God's/nature's way of preparing pregnant women for the sleepless nights that come with a newborn. I think that's crap. God knows pregnant women need rest to grow and deliver the baby. And God knows that no matter what kind of sleep-depriving boot camp He could come up with for moms-to-be, our bodies and minds are never prepared for the insanity-inducing lack of sleep that babies bring with them.


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Jariel Cedeno brought his swagger, "Jake the Snake" nickname and infectious smile with him from Norman Thomas to George Washington.
Unfortunately, he left behind his pitching ability. He came to the Washington Heights school out of shape, unable to locate his pitches and lacking his glove-popping velocity.
Moments before he made his PSAL league debut for the Trojans against Manhattan Center, standout shortstop Mike Antonio reminded him of his ability.
"I want to see the pitcher I faced from Norman Thomas," he told him.
Cedeno was the Jake the Snake of old on Thursday, dominating Manhattan Center in a 7-2 victory.
"He found it today," said second baseman and closer Xyruse Martinez, who led the offensive attack with three hits, two runs scored and an RBI. Antonio and Jorge Toribio also drove in a run and Jordin Rodriguez scored twice. "He looked calm, he looks relaxed, he looked like he was having fun."
Cedeno stopped pressing for one afternoon. Instead of looking to strike every batter out – a habit he had recently developed to impress his new teammates – he let his defense make him look good. His fastball sat in the mid 80's and he used his video game-like breaking ball to keep the Rams off balance.
"He was good today," coach Steve Mandl said. "His command was great. He's getting his velocity back where it should be."
Cedeno needed just 82 pitches to strike out six, walk one and yield two hits, his finest performance in his young Trojan career. Cedeno was the No. 2 starter for city champion Norman Thomas last year as a sophomore, but left the school after a physical confrontation he declined to discuss and arrived at George Washington this fall via a safety transfer.
Mandl wasn't happy with his newest right-hander out of the gate. Cedeno, he said, was out of shape, and therefore his No. 5 pitcher, behind Nestor Bautista, Yael Regalado, Francisco Santana and Saulo Madera. Cedeno has dropped 12 pounds, from 195 to 183.
This is Mandl's deepest rotation in years, but he conceded that if Cedeno can get right, he could be near the top by the postseason. His latest performance was a step in that direction.
"He's really important," Martinez said. "When the playoffs come, arms really count."
Despite losing to the 2008 champions by a combined 15-2 this week, Manhattan Center coach Rafael Ponce Sr. was pleased with his team's effort. The Rams (0-3) were without his son, star right-hander/No. 3 hitter Rafael Ponce Jr., because of elbow problems and still held their own. In his place, sophomore Jesus Medina allowed seven runs on seven hits hits, but did strike out 10.
"We competed with this team, they were supposed to blow us out," Ponce said. "It's a good building block for us."
Also for Cedeno.
He fit in at George Washington (3-0) immediately, joining a talent roster he knew very well from summer ball. Mandl described him as a good kid that is always smiling.
"He was a Trojan from Day 1 – best friend with everybody," the coach said.
Yet, Cedeno still felt pressure to prove himself, that he could be depended on in a big spot. This performance was a load off his shoulders.
"I feel excited that I found myself," he said. "Hopefully I can win another championship. That would be the best feeling."