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Pursuing Passion is Full of Ups and Downs, here's how to Stay Motivated Through Rough Times
2017 was quite the whirlwind, but it taught me numerous valuable lessons when it came to pursuing my writing while trying to work full-time as a personal trainer. I'll be the first to tell you, and others around you in any field will say financial situations can become dire.
Bills, taxes, rent, mortgage, utilities, student loans, car payments, and anything else you can think of will stack up, and sometimes we may find ourselves on the verge of looking over at our relatives doing financially well in their field of choice.
Well, allow me to rephrase the final phrase a bit. Field of choice somewhere between junior year of high school and year after graduating college sometimes doing a job completely irrelevant to their degree.
Hey, it's great you can make $20,000 per month in car sales, now tell me again how much you wanted to make a living in a high-pressure job selling cars with a crazy high quota set by someone else who's going to make at least $30,000 to $40,000 per month.
Yeah, but $20,000 per month is six-figures, and my life is set!
Great, now tell me again about how many times you're getting called to your manager's office after letting the dude who "just wanted to look" walk off the lot.
I have a friend who used to do car sales, so I kind of know the ruse. Anyone walking onto a lot wants to buy a car. Okay, true, but I last bought a car in 2015 and though I had intention of eventually buying a car, I wasn't about to spend my money until I, well, you know, looked around. Then, when I negotiated with the dealer, I was able to pull the price card after shopping around a bit.
Hey, making $20,000 per month as a car salesman is great, but tell me the last time a kid wanted to be a car salesman when they grew up unless their dad was doing the job.
For those of us who are courageous enough not to sell out our passions for working as a car salesman or a Pepsi Guy, we get to do what we love, even if it's not going to pay its dividends early on.
Hey, writers and trainers alike won't make anything until they build a solid following and clientele. But, when the following and client base is built, it's lights out, because not only will you be making a respectable paycheck per month, unlike the car salesman or Pepsi Guy, you're going to be doing what you love and making an awesome paycheck.
How many peers from high school, friends, family, and all the Pepsi Guys out there can say that?
But, taking this journey is high, lonely, long, winding, questioning, sometimes debilitating and many may be on the verge or giving up.
Word of advice: Don't give up.
Why would you give up?
Look, all you need to do is stay the course and find things that make you feel like you're on cloud nine every day.
For instance, when I'm at work interacting with members, I'm free. When I'm working out, I'm free. When I'm writing, reading, or editing, I'm free. When I'm researching ways to continue building my following, I'm free. When I'm crafting my book series, Lord of Columbia, I'm free.
When you're pursuing your passion and putting 110% into your work, you're free. You're doing something worthwhile. You're doing something you know you can make into a living if you continue to stay the course and work hard at what you're doing.
Sure, it's going to be high pressure, but you're holding yourself accountable, and no one is going to micromanage you but you. You're your own boss. You set your own work hours. You get to be stress-free, even during tough times, because you find value in what you're doing.
You're enjoying the process, because each day, each task you complete, each piece of writing you finish, each manuscript you finish editing, each workout your finish, and any and every hobby you partake in that you enjoy, will set you free, and it's much better than stressing over something someone making twice your own inflated salary is forcing you to do.
Again, if you want the bail out, there are plenty of higher paying opportunities out there that will give you an awesome paycheck in exchange for being completely miserable, but at the same time, you gave up.
So, don't give up. Keep working your tail off at what you love, because as the old saying goes, when you put your mind to something, you'll be surprised on what you can accomplish. You will accomplish what you've always wanted. It's going to take more work than anything you've ever done, but you have the passion, so the hard work isn't going to feel like work. You have the desire and the never say die attitude, so you are going to not be satisfied until you reach the pinnacle of success in your field.
Your passion makes you happy. It makes life worth living. It makes you wake up each day with purpose, with drive, with desire, to get things done and to complete each task so one day you can say, "Yes, I've made it. It took a lot of time, work, and eighteen to twenty waking hours per day, but I made it. Although things were beyond tough, and at times I didn't know what the future held, I fought through the storm. And I reached landfall."
So, moral of the post, don't sell yourself out to pressure people into signing papers for a car or poisoning people with Pepsi products.


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Surfing Youtube this morning and saw this and thought it was appropriate to post here. Forgive me if this has already been posted. Too cool to pass up. Long and short is that a Cpl. who served with Hal Moore in Vietnam captured a brand new AK after a battle, carved his name in the stock, and was reunited with it years and years later. His story of why he carved his name in the stock is simple and funny at the same time. I hope I put the link in correctly.
"The future belongs to those of us still willing to get our hands dirty." S. Konietzko
Thanks for sharing.
Pretty cool. A lot of politics surrounding "battlefield pick-ups," especially back then. It was far less controlled than it is now and they were frequently "commandeered" by higher ranking individuals, especially officers, who merely wanted the item. A junior ranking Soldier or Marine who actually won the item in the shit would be fed some BS line by his CoC and it would wind up on the wall of some Colonel or General's office in the rear. It was even worse in WW2.
very interesting video. thanks for sharing. typical course of events, though. the guy who actually found/earned it, gets screwed by someone further up the ladder who wants it.
"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth ...
not going all the way, and not starting."
Glad you guys found this as interesting as I did. As I mentioned in my intro post, its the stories behind our rifles that brought me to the world of the AK from America's rifle. I love my AR's but the stories behind them are being written by me and I'm not that exciting. LOL!
"The future belongs to those of us still willing to get our hands dirty." S. Konietzko
I read about that story a year or so ago somewhere. I have a book that I got as a kid around 1987 that showed that rifle in the AK section. I always wondered what the story could be.
^ ^ Personally I don't know how someone can look at themselves in the mirror not only owning a war trophy that they didn't actually earn, but one that they put out on display as is they grappled it out of an enemy soldier's hands themselves. Then again I have personally witnessed words and actions by officers that were so reprehensible and dishonest I had to do a double-take... and some of these guys were West Point grads. Straight-up wanton lies. Same thing goes for awards and ribbons. There seems to be no limit to the depths some O's and senior enlisted will sink to in their quest for fabricated glory. I'm sure there's at least a few vets in here that can concur.
Collecting AKs to 'arm an ARVN unit going into Cambodia' could very well have been a bullshit cover story.
The US ran a Technical Intelligence program, vacuuming up enemy equipment for study programs back in the US.
The concept was revived in the Korean War and again in time for the buildup to the Vietnam War when a Captured Materiel Exploitation Center was set up in country. This was formalized as Delta Company of the existing 519th Military Intelligence Battalion.
Their own tech intel bulletins were widely circulated among U.S. and allied units with particular interest in capabilities of the enemy's newly-introduced RPG-7 and surprise appearance of Soviet PT-76 amphibious tanks.
After a postwar layover at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Delta was moved to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland in 1978, first becoming the 11th Military Intelligence Company, later ramped-up to Battalion status.
?Technicians for Victory? Part I: Guns of the 203D Military Intelligence Battalion
Look at the GI in the background, wondering which one to take? Can you imagine pulling up there with a truck and loading up all those 98K's....LOL
Sure, lots of stories about officers pulling rank and commandeering war trophies, but theft happened (happens) at all ranks.
Souvenirs stolen en route while being mailed home, pilfered from rest camps and rear areas when men went back up to the line, and removed from wounded men in hospital. If you haven't served, it might be difficult to believe that there have always been plenty of low-lifes in uniform.
Carwood Lipton had a German sniper rifle rifle, Pistol, and all his other stuff stolen from him after he was injured in that truck crash while going home and transported to the hospital.
Cool video. I knew I had seen that T-2 before, it's in the Tokoi AK book.
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Munich/Amsterdam, September 2018 ? At IBC 2018, Archiware presents the upcoming version 5.6 of the Archiware P5 data management software suite. New features include:
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? Support for Backblaze Fireball, Amazon Snowball and other import services for large datasets
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With the release of version 5.6, Archiware is also offering the new ?P5 Desktop Edition?, an essential license package including P5 Archive and P5 Backup to a single LTO tape drive, intended to make P5?s high-end data security and broad feature set affordable for single users and small groups.
Archiware is proud to be hosting QNAP, leading provider of NAS storage systems and latest hardware partner, on the Archiware booth 7.D35, with P5 software running on QNAP NAS hardware and experts from QNAP available for product enquiries and demonstrations.
New to the record list of 31 software and hardware partners Archiware boasts at this year?s IBC is Munich-based storage vendor FAST LTA, manufacturer of the Silent Brick \"COLD Storage? with transportable storage containers. FAST LTA, now a certified Archiware partner, is showing their product line on booth 7.D21.
As of IBC 2018, Archiware is proud to be represented by Global Distribution as a new distributor for the United Kingdom, working with existing distributor JPY. A demo setup of the P5 Desktop Edition on a Mac and including an mTape Thunderbolt LTO tape drive by mLogic will be available on Global Distribution?s booth 7.A55.
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The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth
June 5, the World Environment Day, is meant to celebrate the idea of the environment and put it into practice. It is a day to take stock of where we stand and where we should be headed in future.
The theme for Environment Day 2012 is green economy. Unfortunately, "green economy", which is fast replacing "sustainable development", means different things to different people. Put on a little green colour and hope that the delusion of a lasting solution to the problems of the world is maintained. In this approach there is a belief that the current market-based, capitalist-enterprise system will find answers as we go along. That the answers will lie in doing more of what is being done today—growth, based on consumption, which will stimulate technology innovation for the future green economy.
But this misses the point that the world is creaking under its own weight. It faces new challenges, all of which are potentially devastating and inter-related. On the one hand, is the nightmare of financial meltdown, which in spite of public investments and increasingly stringent financial regulations, is not going away. On the other hand, each year, with seemingly increased intensity and ferocity, different regions of the globe are lashed by natural disasters and freak and extreme weather conditions. It is clear that these extreme weather events are devastating large parts of the world and are combining to make the poor even more poor and vulnerable. It is difficult to say if each event can be directly attributed to climate change. But it is easy to conclude that something is afoot in the world, and that, maybe, this is the beginning of the impacts of climate change, which science has so surely predicted will occur exactly in this manner.
The challenge of green economy is that the world has to reinvent the growth paradigm because it is costing it growth itself. Indeed, it is costing it the Earth.
Public debt crisis and nature's debt crisis
The search for answers must take a close look at the interconnections between the current growth model, which is built on consumption for wealth creation, and the challenge it poses to sustainability. We know today that an underlying cause of the financial strain is the dependence on cheap loans or cheap production to induce consumption, which, in turn, is needed to fuel economic growth. The world has not being able to design an affordable or equitable growth model, which would meet the aspirations and purchasing abilities of people across the world, or indeed the needs of all across the world. There are limits to this growth model, as a fast-growing planet is learning. It is not possible to emulate the lifestyle of the already industrialised without compromising the survival of the planet.
What is not understood is that the current global debt crisis is a mere symptom of a deeper malaise. The fact of the matter is that countries, private companies and individual households can run only if they can borrow against their assets and hope that the debt will grow slower than the value of their asset. Most financial analysts will now tell you that this business is doomed because of the Ponzi scheme nature of the loan business, where borrowing is used to speculate to get more loans, and so repayment becomes difficult and over time impossible. But this analysis is myopic as it misses the real nature of the problem: economic growth means living beyond one's means. The cost of development has risen to such an extent that nothing is possible without loans or subsidy.
The fact is that the cost of development is high. It makes money for a few, but is unaffordable for most because it is the exchequer that has to subsidise this development. This, in turn, increases public debt to crippling levels.
What is not even discussed in the context of the current debt crisis is the other debt, which has been accumulated for growth. Each country's release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere has reduced the cost of its growth. It is a loan from nature for economic development. But the cumulative emissions of a country—one country, the US, has contributed 26 per cent to the stock of emissions between 1950 and 2007—must be added to the cost of growth. In the case of natural debt, economies borrow the assimilative capacity of the environment by releasing waste gases faster than they can be removed naturally. This natural debt is similar to the financial debt of a nation, because it is a loan from nature taken to grow faster and at lower costs.
The combined cost of growth is evident for all to see. The financial debt is leading banks and economies to collapse, while the natural debt is leading to climate catastrophe, adding to costs of economic repair and increasing the costs of growth itself.
It is now increasingly evident that the only way to break this vicious cycle—growth-consumption-wealth-waste—is to change our fundamental understanding of what constitutes growth. Instead, we must understand what leads to happiness and what results in employment and well being of all. It would mean changes in how we measure economic growth—discarding or going beyond the gross domestic product (GDP) indicator to one that is much more comprehensive in assessment of these needs. It would also mean changing the business of business so that the pathways to growth are reinvented.
Changing growth but why?
Years before India became independent, Mahatma Gandhi was asked a simple question: would he like free India to be as "developed" as the country of its colonial masters—Britain? "No," said Gandhi, stunning his interrogator who argued that Britain was the model to emulate. He replied: "If it took Britain half the world to be where it is, how many worlds would India need?"
Gandhi's wisdom confronts us today as economic growth of the old and the new emerging world threatens our future. But it is here that the world must realise the limits of the existing economic growth models in terms of future sustainability.
One, the current economic growth model, based on capital and resource intensity, is intrinsically polluting. Its use of material and energy leads to waste and pollution. Over the past years, the world has struggled to keep pace with the toxic fallout of its wealth creation. But it is finding it has never succeeded in containing the problem; in fact, it always remains many steps behind the problems that the current economic growth paradigm continues to throw up.
Two, it is clear that as yet the world has not been able to settle the question of what a low-carbon growth trajectory can and must be for the future. This is critical to resolve. In the current economic model, technology pathways are constrained. The emission-efficiency technology threshold of the current growth model gives each country only limited opportunities to cut emissions. This is when the world needs an energy transformation. We know the challenge is to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions in an increasingly carbon-constrained world. It is also increasingly evident that improving efficiency in the use of energy and material is one part of the solution for the future. But this efficiency revolution is meaningless without a sufficiency revolution.
The fact is that all developing countries are today at the bottom of the development trajectory. Their pathway to the future will only add to global pollution. It is also clear that the current options for drastic and long-term emission reduction are limited in the current industrial model of the already developed countries. This is the most inconvenient of all truths. The world has to find new growth models, which will need changes in behaviour and lifestyle, to cut emissions. The world also needs new drivers like drastic emission reduction targets in the rich world to stimulate quick and aggressive technology innovation.
Three, the challenge is to build resilient economies, which will eradicate poverty and also ensure that the poor, already living on the margins of survival, are not made even more vulnerable because of climate change. This requires a global growth model, which is inclusive and sustainable.
The imperative for the future is clear. The world has to seriously rethink and rework its development paradigm for the future to make itself less economically vulnerable and more climate-secure.
In the past decades, the world has built an integrated economic growth model, which extends beyond national boundaries. It is time to consider the need for localisation of economies. This localisation agenda does not require the disintegration of the globalised economies of the world. It does, however, need direct investment and policy and fiscal incentives for local production and local consumption. This focus on localisation will also be the new development paradigm's biggest opportunity to invest in the economies and businesses of the future—from decentralised renewable energy technologies to smart grids and green enterprises based on local production. The cell phone revolution, which transformed mobile communications, came because the world reinvented the pathway for technology introduction—moving from centralised, land- and capital-based infrastructure to decentralised, disaggregated and affordable systems. This small revolution is the next big opportunity for change.
Environmentalism of poor v environmentalism of rich
It is here that we must understand the nature of the protests we see across India. This decade has seen a million pollution mutinies. In India, vast numbers—and it is vast numbers—depend on the land, the forests and the water they have in their vicinity for their livelihood. They know that once these resources are gone or degraded, they have no way ahead.
This is the environmental movement of the very poor. Here, there are no quick-fix techno solutions in which the real problems can be fobbed off for later. This environmentalism has only one answer: changing the way we do business, with them and with their environment. It will demand we reduce our need and increase our efficiency for every inch of land we need, every tonne of mineral we dig and every drop of water we use. It will demand new arrangements to share benefits with communities so that they are persuaded to part with their resources for a common development.
If we can listen and learn, maybe this environmentalism of the poor may teach not just us, but the entire world, how to walk lightly on earth. Maybe. Just maybe.
These are the same choices the environmental movement of the rich countries asked their countries to make some two generations ago. They failed. This is why the challenge of climate change remains a challenge. Today, these societies are rich, they have cleaned up their streams and their black smoke. But their economic growth and their lifestyle is putting the entire world at risk because of climate change. They have no real answers to the future because they want to keep tinkering with the present. They are looking to find small solutions to the massive problem of increased emissions, linked to growth.
The western environmental movement also has a different history from ours. It began after these societies had acquired wealth. So, the movement was a response to the garbage, the toxic air or the polluted water, resulting from the growth of their economies. They had the money to invest in cleaning and they did. But because they never looked for big solutions, they always stayed behind the problem—local air pollution is still a problem in most western cities, even if the air is not as black as ours. It is just that the toxin is smaller, more difficult to find or to smell. They keep spending and keep investing in technology to deal with the present. As such, the rich world's environmentalists are garbage managers, nothing more.
But the challenge is to do more with less. Frugality and innovation will have to be our way to growth. The challenge is to provide the gains of development to vast numbers of people. This requires inventing growth that is both affordable and sustainable.
In my view all this adds up to define a new chapter of environmentalism in the world. I say this because it is only now that we are being forced to confront some tough questions on how to be or not to be an environmentalist. We are learning that techno-fix solutions of cleaning up pollution even as we continue to emit more are not good enough. The rich world has failed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions through its investment in efficiency. It now needs to find ways to reinvent growth without fossil fuels and to grow within limits. There are limits to growth, unless we can grow differently.
We in urban and middle-class India must learn this lesson quickly. We cannot afford this environmentalism of costly solutions that put band-aids on what is so badly broken. We must understand that our future lies in being part of the environmentalism of the poor, as this movement will force us to seek new answers to old problems. So, let's embrace a true green economy on this World Environment Day.
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I have read many articles that highlight the problem and leave it to reader to find the solution. By looking at urgency and importance of these world problems, I left my software job and worked on famous world problems. I found simple solutions to all of them. Now I am searching for a person to listen to my solutions.
Everyday I find many article on global warming and air pollution. None of them has given a link or address where we can submit solution. I am going to contact you very soon with my simple solution for Air pollution and global warming. Hope you get few minutes to read my solution and respond.
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I am admirer of your deep thought provoking articles and the issues you raise in your articles provoke me to find answers which technology can provide . I have just returned from a trip to switzerland and I was amazes how the swiss inspite of their high living standards are able to actually protect their forests , water , air and with little pollution and still are able to maintain very high living standards which obviously have a high carbon footprint . I hope you can break the riddle .
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By Zach Ewell, Current Correspondent
Next weekend, barbecue lovers in the D.C. area will convene downtown on Pennsylvania Avenue for the 25th annual Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle, which will be fought with slabs of meat and burning grills.
In the days leading up to the event, though, food lovers can already begin inhaling the luscious smells of barbecue, with special deals and meals available June 19 through 25 for the inaugural Metropolitan Washington BBQ & Grilling Week. More than 25 restaurants in D.C., Maryland and Virginia will offer specials, with proceeds going to United Service Organizations in Washington and Baltimore.
"We have been celebrating the art of barbecue and experience of that barbecue bringing families together," said Shawn Noratel, spokesperson for the Giant National Capital BBQ Battle. "Bringing together local restaurants that celebrate this philosophy and passion only brings our community and neighbors closer together, and also creates a tighter environment so that others can experience the different flavors of barbecue."
Rocklands Barbeque & Grilling Co., located at 2418 Wisconsin Ave. NW in Glover Park, is among the participants in the new weeklong event. Rocklands will be offering its pit beef caliente topped with pepperoncini, onions and cheese, served on a hoagie roll with a choice of two sides, for $11.
Rocklands also sees this week as a chance to showcase its recipes in advance of the battle, according to 13-year employee and manager Melvin Garcia.
"It's a city challenge, and this is the first time for us entering the competition," Garcia said. "We're not afraid. We believe competition makes you better. It just puts the word out there about barbecue in Washington D.C., because when Rocklands first started out here 28 years ago there wasn't a lot of barbecue places."
Burger Tap & Shake, which has locations in Tenleytown and Foggy Bottom, will also be participating this year. Next week, the burger joint will be offering an $11 ponderosa package inspired by the TV Western "Bonanza," complete with a beef and brisket burger with longhorn cheese, jalapeño coleslaw and Cattlemen's barbecue sauce, as well as a soda and fries.
John Zittrauer, a manager at Burger Tap & Shake for two years, believes the ponderosa package will perform well.
"It was our feature burger a couple of months ago, and it did pretty well. And it's topped off with barbecue brisket, so it's a real good cookout burger," Zittrauer said.
BBQ & Grill Week isn't just for barbecue junkies. Martin's Tavern at 1264 Wisconsin Ave. NW in Georgetown offers alternative fare for lunch: a house salad and grilled ahi tuna sandwich for $22.
Other Northwest participants include Roofers Union at 2446 18th St. NW in Adams Morgan and Cafe Saint-Ex at 1847 14th St. NW near U Street. A full list is available at bbqweekdc.com.
The Giant National Capital Barbecue Battle will take place June 24 and 25. The contest will be judged by the Kansas City Barbecue Society.


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Lee & Associates Hires Industrial Market Expert
- May 24, 2018
Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services has hired C.E. "Trey" Erwin as senior director of the company's industrial team. With more than 12 years of real estate experience, Erwin specializes in tenant and acquisition representation, contract negotiation and landlord and disposition representation, specifically in Houston's south, southwest and east submarkets.
Erwin joins the company from Colliers International, where he worked as senior vice president of Industrial Advisory. In his position, he focused on land and industrial real estate acquisitions, dispositions and leasing of all product types, including manufacturing plants, warehouse and distribution facilities and land. Since 2012, Erwin has transacted and advised in more than 6 million square feet of industrial transactions, with a total consideration of $150 million. He holds two post-graduate degrees from Texas A&M University, an MBA and a Master of Science in Land Development.
"We're pleased to add an experienced and highly knowledgeable market expert to our growing industrial team. Trey's extensive client base, as well as vast knowledge of the greater Houston and South Texas regions, make him an asset to our team," Managing Principal Mike Spears said, in prepared remarks.
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Chris Chambliss, one of Joe Torre's trusted lieutenants, was fired yesterday as Yankee hitting instructor, The Post has learned.
The axing, which was carried out by GM Brian Cashman, was one Torre was on board with according to organizational sources. It's the first firing of a coach since Torre was hired following the 1995 season. Torre brought Chambliss in as his batting coach.
Chambliss, 51, was summoned to Cashman's Yankee Stadium office where he heard the news face to face. Torre, however, was out of town and didn't meet with Chambliss, who played for Torre with the Braves and was Torre's hitting coach with the Cardinals from 1993 to 1995.
While nobody in the organization was commenting on the firing, the reason Chambliss was given was that players were going to other sources for hitting help and that the organization could no longer live with that.
Among those players seeking outside help from minor league hitting instructor Gary Denbo was Derek Jeter, who works with Denbo at the Yankees' minor league complex in Tampa during the winter. Tino Martinez was another player who asked Denbo for help. Jorge Posada has also enlisted Denbo's advice.
"He took the news like the class guy he is," a friend of Chambliss said. Chambliss has been the Yankees' hitting coach for all four of their World Series seasons.
The Yankees waited until the Diamondbacks and Dodgers filled their managerial vacancies before firing Chambliss since Chambliss had applied for the jobs that went to Bob Brenly and Jim Tracy, respectively.
Since Denbo has a solid relationship with Jeter, Martinez and Posada, he will be a strong candidate to replace Chambliss. Denbo, who will be 40 next month, has been with the Yankees' organization for 11 years and recently completed his fourth as a roving hitting coordinator. It was Denbo's work with Jeter following the 1998 season that enabled Jeter to add power to his swing. And it was Denbo who got Jeter to use the entire field the year before.
Denbo isn't the only candidate. Rick Down, a hitting coach under Buck Showalter who served as the Dodgers' hitting coach this year, was a finalist for the Dodger managing job that went to Tracy. Down, who gave Paul O'Neill the front leg kick that starts O'Neill's swing, doesn't plan on staying with the Dodgers. Working on his side is that super scout and George Steinbrenner confident Gene Michael, along with Cashman, likes Down.
And don't count out Don Mattingly, always one of Steinbrenner's favorites. Torre talked Mattingly, who quit after the 1995 season, into coming to spring training this past year. And the switch-hitting Posada gave Mattingly credit for helping him with his left-handed swing.
However, a friend of Torre said last night that it would be doubtful that Torre would install Mattingly in such a high profile role without any experience.
Yankee third base coach Willie Randolph, who appears to have lost out to Ron Oester, removed himself from consideration for the Reds' managing position.
"It just didn't work out," Randolph said yesterday. "I was excited about the opportunity to maybe become a Red, but it didn't work out as far as me feeling right."
Oester has the backing of COO John Allen and other influential people in the organization. Randolph was GM Jim Bowden's choice.
Yankees will be among the teams making a bid on Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. Teams will make sealed bids to MLB and the highest bidder will then have the rights to negotiate a contract with the 27-year-old winner of seven straight batting titles in Japan's Pacific League. There are some who believe the bidding could reach the $10 million mark.
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"We're seeing some potential growth with senior citizen houses coming. We are seeing restaurants coming back to the area and not chain restaurants, but mom and pop restaurants, which is always a great, kind of that American dream being able to lived out on Pierson. So we are going to keep seeing it," said Chamber of Commerce President, Jacob Smith.
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Kamimura to Represent JGA in Japan
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Jon Goldman Associates (JGA) recently announced that Toshio "Angelo" Kamimura of Ajiro Associates, Tokyo, Japan, will represent JGA in sales and support for its products in Japan. Kamimura recently retired from Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL), where he worked for 36 years in various positions, including member of the board of directors, president of TEL-Thermco Co., and managing director of TEL. He was committee general manager of the SEMICON Japan trade show in 1990 and 1991, and he is a graduate of Waseda University. "We are truly honored that Mr. Kamimura will be representing JGA," said Jon Goldman, president and founder of JGA. "He is well respected in the Japanese semiconductor community and has extensive knowledge of the semiconductor manufacturing process, as well as our products."
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The latest Tim Timebomb and Friends installment is "Disorder Version", an instrumental written by himself and his Rancid bandmates Matt Freeman and Lars Frederiksen. "Disorder Version" is actually an acoustic instrumental version of "Disorder & Disarray", taken from Rancid's 1995 iconic album …And Out Come the Wolves.
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Tim Timebomb is the latest side project from Rancid's Tim Armstrong, who has been releasing a long series of singles on iTunes every week since the beginning of December 2012 through Hellcat Records. Rancid is currently on tour with Transplants and Crown of Thornz, and has been working on a new album, which will be their first since 2009′s Let the Dominoes Fall.
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The Supreme Court today paved the way for states to begin collecting sales taxes from online vendors. In a 5-4 decision, the court threw out a precedent that had blocked online sales taxes.
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Sony Cuts Profit Forecast By 70%, Faces $300 Mill Extra Costs
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Selling the PC division has hurt Sony's bottom line much more than Sony anticipated.
Sony's profit forecast has taken a massive hit thanks to $300 million in extra costs associated with the sale of its PC division. The profit forecast for the year ending March 31st has been revised downward by almost 70% as a result. Weak demand, particularly in Europe, for physical media has also hit Sony hard. Sony always knew the day would come when its customers stopped caring about DVDs and CDs, but it hadn't expected it to come quite as quickly as this. The contraction in demand cost Sony ¥25 billion (c. $242 million).
Sony's now looking at a net loss for the year of ¥130 billion ($1.27 billion), which is about ¥20 billion more than the loss it forecast back in February. The big problem with its PC market is that as soon as Sony announced it was selling off the division, people stopped buying. Again, this was something Sony expected, but it didn't expect the hit to be so severe.
"Consequently, Sony expects to record write-downs for excess components in inventory and accrual of expenses to compensate suppliers for unused components ordered for Sony's spring PC lineup," said the company in a statement.
"In addition, certain restructuring charges are expected to be recorded ahead of schedule. As a result of these factors, an additional total amount of approximately ¥30 billion in expenses is anticipated to be recorded in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014."
These losses are counterbalanced by the cost-saving measures, redundancies and sell-offs Sony has been implementing over the last year, but the impact on its bottom line has still cut drastically into its operating income, which has been slashed from ¥80 billion to ¥26 billion.
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A $1.27 billion dollar loss. They didn't even recuperate the $5 billion dollar loss that the PS3 at launch blew a hole in.
Oh man, I wonder where are all the Sony Doomers?
Yikes. It looks like Sony has some serious structural problems :s That's the issue with consumer products companies this size, if they don't change rapidly enough they can can financially hammered. Personally i think Sony should try and compartmentalize it's divisions a lot more so if one goes south it won't affect the good ones.
I don't think Sony isn't dead by any means, they just really need to get themselves together. They make a LOT of money but finding where the profit is in all that turnover can be a headache when you are that large.
I dont know how people outside of the group of specialised people in that sort of field can understand what the fuck goes on with these companies, one day everything is great and they are printing money, the next day its like they are going bankrupt. And then they are printing money again...
Damnit Sony, get your shit together!
On a more serious note, while selling of the computer division is hurting them in the short term, I believe it will help them in the long run. VAIO computers were way overpriced for what you were getting and they never really sold very well. Hopefully trimming the fat will be enough to keep the games division off the chopping the block.
Sony fanboy reporting in!
EDIT: Nevermind, found some sauce...
All I can say is I hope the success of the PS4 and Sony's current strategy of trimming off parts of the company that don't make money will save them. It's going to be an uphill battle, but all we can do at this point is hope.
PS4 isn't loss leading this time, and it's selling like hotcakes, so they are actually making a profit right out of the gate. Might be enough, but only time will tell.
They're around. They can't say anything though or they get harassed and doxxed for being "paid shills for the devil."
yeah, that happens. A lot. Especially since Sony is the last bastion of mainstream console gaming left. If Sony goes down, consoles go down too.
Nintendo gets doomed and gloomed because their fans are docile and don't care. They know they are the best and won't bother. Sony however has a rapid fanbase that's almost on par with Valve. Though valve beats them because they have Gaben.
Microsoft doesn't have that much of a rapid fanbase because "microsoft is evil" has been hammered home since apple became popular.
This makes me sad. I hope they come out of this in a good enough shape.
Well yeah, of course an electronics company is going to have some heavy hits in their electronics division when their hardware becomes obsolete. It's nice that they're trying to mitigate those losses though. At least they still have TVs, Consoles, and their much larger array of IPs and general entertainment products.
Sony has $151.13 Billion in assets and $28.52 Billion in equity.
I'd say that they're going to get a lot smaller in the coming years but doom isn't anywhere close. But to put this all in perspective they made $72.35 Billion in Revenue last year. In the grand scheme of things being $1.27 Billion is really close to breaking even (from Sony's perspective). I mean, even with that $72.35 Billion Revenue they only came away with $458 Million in net profit. This is most likely a sign that they are pumping huge amounts of money into research to make the future of their business viable. Frankly, this is how the books should look at such a momentous shift in tech.
Their main industries are changing. They will drop and have to shed the dead weight. It's particularly hard this time because it isn't tape changing to CD. It's disk player changing to streaming/storage device. Something that is essentially the eventual death of physical media as we know it. Sony is just lucky that they have branched out so far over the past several decades.
Wouldn't it be weird if after all the speculation and rumours about Microsoft selling off their gaming division, Sony was the one to?
Not saying it'll happen, mind.
That is a fair comparison. I mean, one of the primary reasons this is a concern for Nintendo is that Nintendo is focused on gaming, and we all know that Sony is only involved in the computer market. It's not like they've had multiple profitable divisions over the last couple of years which are still fiscally viable or anything.
I think that their biggest structural problem is that they have been "restructuring" for several years now to little change. This may have prompted the jettison of their computer brand, actually, but I couldn't be arsed to look it up after looking at their other financial info.
The irony would be rich. I'm hoping that because the PS4 isn't loss leading this time around the games division will be profitable enough to miss the ax.
Who apparently died for your sins, yet is powerless to do anything about Episode 3 or any other title you want because Gaben works in mysterious ways.
Even with the disaster that is the Xbone, Microsoft still has plenty of so-called Xbots, and they're regarded about as well as the Sony rabids.
Fun fact: I am apparently an Xbox fanboy, Xbox hater, Sony fanboy, Sony hater, Nintendo fanboy, Nintendo hater, PC fanboy and PC hater all at once.
I'm just that talented.
Unfortunately, this isn't the beginning or end of their problems.
Their gaming division appears to be doing fine, though I haven't read the most recent bits in detail. So that may have changed, but I'm betting it hasn't.
Hah! Nice comparison there, even if I rather do like Valve and Steam. I'll see you at open mic night.
Did I get that right: people stop buying physical media in Europe?
Guess I must have missed something, because consensus in my social environment is physical media with dynamic price > downloads with fixed price. Especially when we're talking about up to 50 GB worth of data per title.
Sony is either looking for an excuse to scrap physical media asap or half of Europe has gone mad.
I'm afraid Sony is slowly but surely on its way down. They're the old alpha dog that's been resting on its laurels, while the new pup on the block (Samsung) has been stealing all the glory.
Though I heard a lot of what's been suffocating them is their outdated Japanese business practices.
They're too big for any real restructuring, and they're too big to simply collapse. So it looks like we're going to end up with a colossal zombie that's just gonna keep marching on.
Conveniently absent because that goes against the weirdly zealous idea that Sony is some sort of revolutionary company when in fact it's an old fogey that doesn't really know how to make a profit anymore. Especially when they have $126 BILLION in liabilities. Not a good place for a company to be
Yeah I don;t get this, I don;t use physical media anymore but with services like Ultraviolet you can shop around to get the physical disk at the right price and still get a digital copy and throw the disk in a box out of sight somewhere.
The issue is one of scale. When you or I say $6.27 billion dollars in losses it certainly sounds like a lot of money, but to Sony it really isn't that much. In terms of total assets it represents a 4% loss, and in terms of Net shareholder equity it represents about 17% loss.
The first number is why there is really no need for concern, the second number is why Sony - despite this not being a large concern - is more aggressively pursuing a black budget than previously. The idea is that operating losses like this happen all the time to companies of this size, but a failure to make an effort to reclaim the lost money could reduce shareholder confidence and snowball into a larger problem for the company, by reducing their shareholder equity.
Your Nintendo zealotry must have blinded you to the fact that people are already saying Sony is in a bad spot in this very thread. Before you even showed up to snark that they were absent. I should know, I was one of them.
Here I was thinking the NDF couldn't get any sillier.
People who live in glass houses and all that...
An thats the reason PS4 is a PS3.5, they really couldnt risk making a console that could fail. They even said if the PS4 failed there would be no PS5. Even now Sony products arent considered the best any more, yet they still charge a lot of money for them. I hope they survive their financial difficulties.
Not even one post before we get some jabs from the NDF's new master chief since jeffers passed away, why am I not surprised.
OT: I'm not sure what they were expecting...when you are selling off your PC division (this applies to any expensive electronic really) it obviously shows you don't have faith in your product..so why the hell would consumers continue to buy that? (at least at retail price, I'm sure sooner or later sony laptops will be selling dirt cheap, in which they'll be bought by the truckload.)
sony is so damn bloated of a company, I'm not sure if all this restructuring they've been doing the past few years will help them shed the dead weight off or just cause them to continue to snowball downhill.
Woah, that's a lot. Seems like Nintendo is really doomed.
On a serious note, Sony is in deep shit for a long time now. I don't know why they thought they would have a huge profit with all their divisions losing money.
I dont' want to be an asshole, but why do you hate video games so much?
Yeah okay, how many people have actually said this in the last 6 years?
And how many people have been saying this? Oh that's right, everyone in this very thread.
I know you like to jump to Nintendo's defence, but you're just jumping at shadows now, buddy.
Maybe if they'd lower the cost of their blu-ray licenses more people would be inclined to buy into the format, especially on the pc front where to watch legally you have to shell out for new player software every few years thanks to that stupid aacs stuff.
I remember when sony was the go-to brand for the best in electronics (I just came across my old discman from my high school days and it still works). They made the same mistake the US automakers did: they got complacent and the market got swept out from under their feet. What does it say when Microsoft has adapted better to the changing pc market than sony? (Bear in mind Microsoft has utterly failed.) It's like they just stopped trying once Apple and ipod took off. They didn't adjust to the mp3 player market, nor the smartphone market, nor the tablet market, nor the tv market (they were not a leader in features or pricing), nor the computer market. They have a habit of making great things or developing new tech but then squandering it through inaction (playstation peripherals are the penultimate example here) or inaccessible pricing.
The only thing they've done right is make the PS4 better than the xbone, but it's a costly division that may not be enough to make up for their overall failure to make things people want to buy.
50 GB is nothing when you have 2 TB drives.
Too bad most people have less than 30 Mbit connections, many have 16 and less. It takes literal days to download 50 GB in some regions.
It will be enough for the gaming division, but will it be enough for the rest of the corporation. Them selling off their computer division hurt them quite a lot. That's just the computer division. Who knows how much it will hurt if they get rid of their film, and television business?
I know they aren't going to doom status or anything.
I'm just kind of parodying the people that love to ring the death knell of a company at the first sign of a shitty year...although the one time they seem to be on the mark for is Capcom...yeah...they reeeeeally aren't doing so hot.
in the face of all of the Nintendoom and Nintengloom, all i have to say is, SONY DOOMED MS DOOMED!!!!! *tongue firmly planted in cheek*
Yes! Finally! I'm crowned the unofficial leader of the NDF! Where's my badge!
Man (or woman), I really hope that it saves their gaming division. Their televisions have been blown out of the water by Samsung and LG for several years, and the only thing of note their film division has made recently is Spiderman, which kind of sucks. Their computers were overpriced, though admittedly they are incredibly reliable. I have heard that the new Xperia phones are really cool, and have been selling well, but I wonder how long that will last in a market dominated by Google and Apple. I just want the games to be safe from the dead weight that the rest of the company has created. Losing Playstation, despite it's recent triumphs would be tragic (to me).
I really don't think the gaming division itself would go under, but that's providing the other parts of Sony don't start using it as a min piggy bank. They do own all of it after all. But then that also means if the Sony gaming division does go down, then they are on a very thin line for generations to come in terms of consoles. Each one has to definitely turn a profit until they recoup the losses that the PS3 created.
The PS4 is selling incredibly fast for a system that only has a handful of games that people want to play at this point. I don't have a source on hand, but I believe it was said that each PS4 sold was sold at a $40 loss or somewhere around those lines. They said they were confident it would be easy to turn a profit because that amount would be made up with one game sale and a PS+ sub (amazing service BTW, sucks that it's kind of mandatory now). I wonder how long it will take them to make up for the PS3 black hole?
A mere badge is not enough, here you are:
Wear it with pride.
That is the thing, for all of the bluster of the PS4's launch year, Sony still hasn't made that much off it if anything at all. 7 million sold isn't enough to to counteract that. Heck, I actually doubt it'll EVER recoup the losses made from the PS3 they were so big. And with all sorts of fat being trimmed with not enough divisions making bank, they're definitely not the top dog in a lot of industries they're a part of.
So Sony is doomed?.
I'd expected them selling their PC side to do some damage but I didn't expect that much to be done, Still it was better to get rid of some dead weight than it was to keep it and have bigger chances of bringing themselves down further into the red.
Also noticed some classy action going on a few posts above me, never change Escapist, keep it jabby and low witty.
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Characteristics of hydraulic resistance and velocity profile in vegetated open-channel flows
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The presence of vegetation in open-channel flow has significant influences on flow resistance and turbulence structures. This study sets out aims to evaluate the flow resistance and scale velocity profile in depth-limited flow conditions. It carries out experiments to simulate rigid vegetation under emergent and submerged flow conditions. By drawing analogies between pipe flows and vegetated channel flows, the study proposes a new friction function for emergent flow conditions which clearly shows a monotonic decrease of the drag coefficient using the new Reynolds number defined using a vegetation-related hydraulic radius. In addition, by transforming the concept of hydraulic radius, a representative roughness height is proposed for quantifying effect of submerged vegetation on flow resistance in the surface layer which performs better than other length scales in collapsing resistance data collected under a wide range of vegetation conditions. An approach is then developed for estimating the average flow velocity and resistance coefficients for both cases of rigid and flexible vegetation. Finally, the study proposes a length scale metric that normalizes velocity profiles of depth-limited open channel flows with submerged rigid vegetation using the plane mixing layer analogy. The proposed scaling is better than those based on the logarithmic, velocity-defect and power laws in collapsing the velocity profiles. A simple viscosity model is developed to justify the scaling argument.
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This blog is the story of our experience building a Ryan Homes Milan. We're building a Milan because it fits our space requirements and offers the features we are looking for in a new home at a price we are comfortable with. This new construction story will include the good, the bad, and the ugliness of building with Ryan Homes. I promise to be as transparent as I can in order to help people who are potentially new home builders themselves.
Monday, January 4, 2016
Happy New Year! (quick update)
First and foremost, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all and here's wishing you the best in 2016!
I've been crazy busy the last two weeks with the holiday hustle, but I have been by to check on our construction a couple times. Everything is still on track with no noticeable delays yet. They have poured our basement walls and all the support beams have arrived (not yet put in though). The lumber was supposed to be delivered today but when I drove by this afternoon I didn't see anything.
Anyways, here are some new photos with our freshly poured walls!
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Very exciting Dustin!! You are rising UP! I love this part of the construction because it is a clear sign of things to come. Happy New Year to you and your family!ReplyDeleteReplies
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This morning, Nintendo sent out one of its periodic brag-heavy business press releases, this time focusing on a strong start to the US holiday shopping season. In addition to updates on lifetime US sales for the 3DS family of systems (22 million), and recent Classic Edition systems (2.5 million for SNES Classic, 2 million for NES Classic), the release highlighted more than 8.2 million lifetime US sales for the Nintendo Switch (through November 26).
That sounds pretty impressive for a system that has just hit its 20-month anniversary on retail shelves, without even two full holiday seasons under its belt. But we wanted to figure out just how those sales stack up to the competition. So we tracked down some numbers for past consoles for comparison. As you can see, the Switch's US sales pace puts it in some pretty elite company:
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Today Matt is joined by Michael Griffiths, a successful entrepreneur of 7 businesses and the #1 worldwide authority on referral and partnership marketing. Tune in to this episode of Thought Leader Thursday to learn how to accelerate the process of building relationships (even if you're an introvert!), the biggest opportunity you're missing to get more clients, and 4 steps you can take to immediately up your referral game.
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The first major stage of the Archimedes Screw turbine installation has now been completed: the piling.
Huge metal piles, each 6 metres long, have been hammered into the ground behind the Snuff Mill, using gentle vibrations to minimise disturbance to the historic buildings nearby. The piles will form a temporary wall around the turbine site, to allow construction to take place without water coming in from the river.
Carrying piles on to the site (Mackley Construction)
The hydraulic 'jaw" holds a pile in place (Mackley Construction)
One of the piles is hammered in (Mackley Construction)
The completed piling (Mackley Construction)
The site with piles in place - from the Snuff Mill window (NTPL/Caroline Pankhurst)
The piles will be left in place but cut off below ground level, once the work is complete.


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Your guide to Siluria, Alabama assisted living facilities. With so many senior housing options available, how do you know which one is right for your family?
Our Senior Living Advisors live in the Siluria area and can provide you with an insider's view of local communities including pricing information and distinctive features.
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Siluria is an unincorporated community located in Shelby County, Alabama in the Birmingham, Alabama, metropolitan area. It was the home of a large cotton mill and company-built mill village which began operations in 1896 and finally closed in 1979. The community has been annexed by the city of Alabaster. It's named for the Silurian geological period because of rocks found there. A post office was established in 1872, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1972.
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China is set to trial a 5MW wind turbine at its pilot offshore wind project, the Shanghai East Sea Bridge Offshore wind farm, as part of a second developmental stage. The first stage of the project, to the east of the bridge, comprises 34 3MW Sinovel turbines, and was constructed in September 2008. The power was integrated to the local grid in July this year. The second stage of the project will be located to the west of the East Sea Bridge and will host 30 3.6MW wind turbines.
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Advanced Automation in Photoshop
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Advanced Automation in Photoshop
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Dave Cross really knows his stuff, and his knowledge is up to date. I didn't know there's a Photoshop "mail-merge" kind of capability - now I know how to use it! He gives clear instructions on how to save time in Photoshop in various ways. I highly recommend this course.


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Trailers, teasers, and promotional videos, once exclusively belonging in the realm of movies and video games, are increasingly becoming mainstream in the mobile app marketing world. App developers and brands seeking to stand out in the crowded app stores turn to videos to encourage virality and build up demand and buzz for their apps. And indeed, when done well, a promotional video is an amazing marketing tool. It's exponentially more powerful than text and images, and can convey complex, multilayered messages in a quick, efficient, and most important – engaging manner.
A good promotional video needs to be short (1-2 minutes max) and simple. It should apply an "outside of the box" creativity and clearly explain the "why & what" of the app – why it is needed and what problem it solves. It should have an appealing call for action neatly integrated into the video. It is well worth spending extra time in the planning phase to find creative new angles and to tighten up the script. A low-budget video with a brilliant, creative idea and neat execution can easily outperform the most expensive, professionally produced videos, and especially once it goes viral…
Here are 10 brilliant app promotional videos to inspire you:
Showcase the UI/UX
One of the most classical app promo formats. This format usually focuses on a hands-on display of the app and showcases the actual app in use on a phone or tablet, so that the viewer can get a sense of the user experience. This low budget format is simple yet effective; it doesn't use any fancy videography or effects, just some cheery music and lots of close-ups of the app.
Go (Creatively) Low Cost
A video doesn't need to be expensive in order to be good. With almost half a million views, Tiny Wings' teaser video demonstrates how a brilliantly executed, low-cost clip can easily go viral. The clever combination of cute music and refreshing simplicity is dangerously addictive.
Adopt the Documentary Approach
The popular documentary approach is an amazingly efficient format for creating inspiring and engaging promotional videos. It is also known as the "pitch format," as it allow its creators to interact 'face to face' with their audience, pitch their product, and leave a warm, genuine impression. The effectiveness of this format, combined with the relative lower costs of production, made it very prominent on crowd sourcing sites.
Make them Laugh
The holy grail of promotional videos is, without a doubt, virality. There is nothing more satisfying than opening your computer in the morning and realizing that your humble clip became viral, to see it popping up everywhere and rapidly circulating between millions of internet users.
There are many ways to achieve virality. The easiest one is probably via humor. Funny, ironic, and self-aware clips are the stuff memes are made from – many of them are actually quite silly and nonsensical. Take a look at these three examples:
Focus on the "Why"
A promotional video can be a great tool to pitch your app and explain to your audience why they need it. It's an opportunity to both create the need for the app and to capitalize on it. These clips focus on identifying a common issue and showcasing the ways the app can help solve them or at least handle them better.
Appeal to Emotions
When you really want to leave a lasting impression, there's no better way than to activate emotions. A good emotional video has a way of touching an audience, engaging, exciting, and motivating it. These videos are often more expansive, demanding a tight production, good story, and great soundtrack, but done right they are worth every buck.
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No allotment blogging for a whole month, but I've been busy gardening!
After a very dry period and much fetching and carrying water, we've had some decent rain and the allotment is doing great!
The winter cabbages, purple-sprouting broccoli, kale and late beetroot have been sown. Everything else is growing nicely.
The foxes seem to have grown up and moved on. There is no further sign of them.
We have had the first courgettes, tons of strawberries, early raspberries, broccoli and leafbeet. No we are waiting for the first cucumbers and tomatoes.


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The Mysore University Time Table 2019 is available soon. So all of you can check Mysore University April/May Exam Schedule information from this page. The University of Mysore will be released the BA, B.Sc, B.Com Exam Time Table as soon as on the official website www.uni-mysore.ac.in. So those Students who are going to appear in the UG/PG 2nd, 4th, 6th Semester Time Table PDF through online. Scroll down this page to get all latest information of Mysore University MA, M.Sc, M.Com Exam Date Sheet.
Mysore University Time Table 2019
Hello students, we have great news here the University of Mysore is going to conduct BA BSc BCom 1st, 3rd, 5th Sem exam in month of November/December. Now the University is planning to declare Mysore University Time Table 2019 at official website of university. The Students who are going to appear in the University of Mysore Bachelor of Arts, Commerce and Science IInd, IVth VIth Semester Examination for session year 2019, they can check and download the Mysore University B.Com Time Table 2019 from below provide link below. The Mysore University Exam Date Sheet is available in PDF Format. You can download the Mysore University Exam Date in PDF format after official announcement at given link.
University of Mysore BA, B.Sc, B.Com April/May Exam Date 2019
Every year huge number of Candidates appears for these examinations. Lakhs of Candidates are looking for Mysore University Time Table 2019 on the official web site. The all Private, Regular, Non College (NC) and Ex-Students can download the Mysore University May/June Time Table from here after issue. We will upload all details about these examinations on the web page. You all students already know that exam date not release yet, so you can start preparation for this exam. This is fact that without preparation cannot any exam. You can download the Mysore University BA, B.Sc, B.Com Time Table from the official link presented below on this page. To know more about this exam date you can go on official website.
The University of Mysore has released the BA, B.Sc, B.Com, MA, M.Sc, M.Com 1st, 3rd, 5th Semester Time Table. So those Students who are going to appear in this Examination, they can able to download Mysore University Time Table from given below link. Mysore University UG/PG Examination will be held from 26th October to 12th December. Now the Examination authority is planning to organized the UG/PG 2nd, 4th, 6th Sem Examination in the April/May.
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We know that many students are doing preparation for University of Mysore written exam. Mysore University conducts semester exams every year for the students to check their knowledge and to promote them on the next level. Every year the university conducts examination in month of Nov/Dec. Before one month conduct examination the university declare Mysore University Time Table 2019 at official website. All appeared students can download Mysore University 2nd, 4th, 6th Semester Time Table 2019 from given link below after declaration. Now you can bookmark this web page to get more update regarding to exam Program.
BA Time Table 2019 | BSc Time Table 2019 | BCom Time Table 2019 | MA Time Table 2019
The Mysore University has not yet announced the exact date of Odd Sem Examination. But it will be available soon on the official website. So all Students keep some patience, whenever the University will be released the Odd Semester Exam Time Table on the official website, then we will update a direct link from this page. Those Students who are going to appear in this Examination, they can also download Mysore University Time Table 2019 from given below link. All Students advised stay connected with us or our this page regularly and get all latest updates.
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The University Of Mysore is very popular and old university in the entire state. It is a public type state university which was established in 27 July 1916 at Mysore, Karnataka, India. This university has 5 constituent colleges and 122 affiliated colleges. The university offered virus undergraduate / postgraduate courses. Every year lakhs of students are take admission in this university. This year appeared students are waiting for Mysore University Time Table 2019, they will soon able to download Exam Schedule from given link below after official announcement. Students can follow some given steps for download Exam Date Sheet. You can share this web page with your friends at social network like as Face Book, Twitter, Whats app, LinkedIn, Pinterst etc.
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According to previous year records, the Mysore University will organize the Semester 1, 3, 5 Examination in the May/June Month. The Mysore University Time Table 2019 will release in the Nov/Dec Month on the official website. So all Students need to wait in the Nov/Dec Month after you can able to download your Semester Exam Time Table in PDF format. If the Students who want to more information about the Nov/Dec Examination, you may visit the official website.
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- Students first go on official website of http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/
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Dr. Lum is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Catholic University of America. He directs the Center for Applied Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Research (CABRR) at National Rehabilitation Hospital and is also a Research Health Scientist at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He completed his Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco in 1983. His area of study is the application of engineering tools toward development of interventions to aid rehabilitation after neurological injury. He is currently developing robotic devices for hand function, studying motor learning and performance limitations in amputee populations, and continuing work in telerehabilitation technologies.


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This is the third of the BYTB (Bright Yellow Tennis Ball) series. My favorite candy is Cherry Mash. When I was a kid we would walk to 7-11 and buy a Slurpee and a Cherry Mash. Not many stores sell Cherry Mash now. I know all the stores around us that sell them and my friends and family buy them for me when they come across them at a store.


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Social media is playing a large role in Japan's disaster response and relief. Facebook, MySpace, Skype and Twitter accounts are allowing family and friends to know their loved ones are safe. It is a great way to keep them updated on what is going on in Japan throughout the day. YouTube is playing a large role as well. Those in Japan are able to take videos and post them for others around the world to see. There have been millions of viewers checking out the effects of the disaster.
Sending text messages to the Salvation Army, the American Red cross and International Medical Corps has helped raise millions of dollars. These organizations, along with many others, are accepting $10 donations via text messages. This is a great way to donate to those in need. Although it may take time to receive the money, it is quick and efficient for donors.


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Upon smelling this wine, your senses are immediately drawn in by a bouquet of deep blueberry, rich plum and coffee. These prominent fruit flavours are closely followed by chocolate and lustrous licorice spice with creamy vanilla constantly weaving its way through. This beautifully balanced wine is a classic representation of our Blue Eyed Boy: truly a vibrant, ripe, and indulgent experience.
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They're the hard-core gold prospectors of Outback Australia and they're on a mission to strike it rich! Whether it's back-breaking work, extreme weather, mechanical breakdowns or cutthroat competition, prospecting is not for the faint-hearted. But our cast of gold hunters is tough, resourceful and ready for the challenge.
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Victor van Tol
Victor van Tol (40) is CEO and co-founder of SnappCar; one of the largest online platforms for peer-to-peer car rental in Europe.
Victor is a disruptive entrepreneur who wants to make a difference in the world. More shared cars equals less cars on the road, less CO2 emissions and more social cohesion in neighborhoods.
Victor speaks about SnappCar becoming the leading peer-to-peer car sharing community in Europe, and it's position as social enterprise.
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It's natural to feel a sense of responsibility for our community, our environment and our world. As your attorneys, we feel a duty to help you further your purpose as part of our own social responsibility.
At For Purpose Law Group, we don't just counsel social enterprises — we are one. Our passion for great causes shines through in everything we do – from our initial consultations, to our office culture and environment, to the very legal services we provide.
What exactly do we mean? Well, for one, we offer an onsite preschool for the children of our employees. No one should ever have to choose between their professional dreams and having a family. We ensure that our employees feel valued – so that THEY can value YOU.
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Genre drop-down in the "File Info" window is NOT populating correctly for FLAC files
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not if you care about being able to use your files on a broad array of products and software with no effort on your part.
That made me laugh. ALAC is an Apple Lock-in scam. Trying to convert everyone over to the "The Apple Way".
That is not a standard, that is an attempt at dominance of the market. Making it "open source" is not enough. If Apple were really about the "community" and "openness" then they would have moved to FLAC like many others are now doing. (See any modern phone - Androids, Blackberrys, etc.... anything that isn't an Apple)
ANYTHING connected with that mess that is iTunes and Quicktime needs to be shot at birth as a horrendous insult to humanity.
Surely, if you want something that plays on a wider array of devices you should be picking Microsoft's WMA Lossless? WMA is supported way wider than ALAC. And even a basic skim of the Wiki article shows FLAC supported on many more different types of devices than ALAC.
Or are you just counting up how many devices Apple have sold and calling that a "broad array"?
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My mum is not a miniaturist, but she has made me some minis now and then. I just got this little blanket that she has knitted for me. The thread is very soft and thin. I think it is so pretty! She had planned to give it to me for christmas, but she couldn`t wait that long! :-D
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