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Sweaty-Gate Is Not The Full Story
The industry is calling it the 'sweaty-gate scandal' – a PR agency has been struck off the PRCA (Public Relations Consultants Association) register; something so rare that the last time it happened was a decade ago. To cut a long story short, the agency placed a story in a national newspaper about a woman with a chronic sweating problem that had been virtually eradicated by one of their clients' products. As it turned out, the woman was an agency employee, and that was not made clear. In typical headline fashion, "Woman forced to take MONTHS off work due to excessive sweating condition" was what appeared.
I've posted on this before, but the bottom line is that PR has changed beyond recognition in the beauty industry. The hard facts here are that sweaty-gate is not an uncommon story; this has happened for years and we all know it. The difference now is that PR agencies have evolved from small, bespoke agencies into PR supermarkets churning out substandard, cut-price PR to anyone who'll take it. It is such a competitive market that it would not surprise me in the least if it was another agency that reported sweaty-gate. A couple of years ago, tipped off by PR who recognised her own ex-intern in the guise of a 'fashion buyer for a high street chain' claiming her breasts had grown a size thanks to a beauty cream, I challenged the newspaper concerned and told them that the 'buyer' was really a PR at the agency who repped the beauty cream. They were not at all interested (although the agency subsequently lost the account). I had the agency owner screaming down the phone asking how I could accuse her of such a dreadful thing while I had the Facebook page of the PR concerned up, clearly stating she worked in PR. The newspaper didn't want to know. So, thousands of women may have bought that cream and really might as well have just grabbed a couple of tenners and thrown them out of the window.
If these stories tell us anything, it's how much strain individuals in the industry are under. I know of a large high street chain that 'persuades' brands to leave their current agency and join one of their choosing. If you're a small agency losing clients because brands feel they have no choice but to leave and go to the chain's favoured agency, what chance do you have? Bigger agencies undercut and undercut to the point that they're making virtually no profit on some brands but the brands carry enough weight they're kept for kudos. That means junior PRs scurrying around desperately trying to service clients that don't pay as well as the ones that do. I do not know a single PR that doesn't feel exhausted and debilitated right now. Most of the PRs I know work more or less a double day, every day.
I have seen PRs quite literally emotionally broken by agency owners that don't know how to say no and brands that have enormously unrealistic expectations that were never managed effectively from the beginning. But that's the problem – for all the decent agencies that can, and do, recognise that some brands will never be happy no matter what they do, and won't see their staff run ragged and working all the hours of the day, there are too many that will. And then they get desperate, and sweaty-gate happens.
I get invited to many events (I attend very few because you can't run a blog/Instagram/twitter/periscope/facebook if you're out all the time) and it's extremely disheartening to discover that you're only there as a tick-box exercise so the agency can prove to the client that their event was popular. What happened to events being about the products, about the relationship building? If a brand demands of the agency that there are certain people they want to turn up, and the PR can't persuade them to go, there's a pressure build result all the way along the line. I'm so time conscious that I have to be very selective otherwise the blog just couldn't and wouldn't happen, but it's a massive indulgence on the part of brands to assume they can take a couple of hours (with a couple of hours travel time added) of my life to talk at me about how brilliant their brand is. I can work out for myself just how brilliant – or not – it is, at home. Imagine if I (or anyone else for that matter) called up the brand and asked to see them so I could talk about myself for an hour or two. Less pressure from brands to hold events for the opening of an envelope on the PRs would actually give them time to do some proper PR-ing.
So, really, sweaty-gate is just the one that got caught. But, hopefully now you can see that there's a bigger picture behind your favourite beauty brands and how they're presented to the people that present them to you.
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oh my goodness! a friend of mine told me about when she once interned at a pr company and they asked her to take part in shoot for a press release on weight loss supplements. she's slim so they put her photo as an 'after shot' and photoshopped a 'before' so it made her look 10 stone heavier! it was for an editorial in a well known mag who refused to publish the product unless they provided a 'real life' case study… it's sad but you can't believe everything that you read!!
Fascinating story, but sadly, one that is not at all unusual. The cut-throat mentality that you speak of is global and cuts across many industries. I will not bore you with the stories of things that I have encountered as a professional photographer. I also do some retouching on the side and nearly every day I am asked to use the magic of photoshop to make the highly questionable seem real. So let me add that not only should the consumer refuse to believe everything that she or he reads, they should also look at every editorial or PR photo with more than a little skepticism.
Thank you for your continuing honesty, Jane. It is very much appreciated.
I love these posts Jane! I'm not & never have been professionally involved in these industries but I've had a lifelong interest in beauty & this is all fascinating reading for a nosey old sceptic, like me! Really makes me think as a consumer & love the fact that you always provide very balanced information & viewpoints.
I love these posts (well, I love your blog in general:-)). Play I suggest another aspect of the beauty business that is quite troubling – taxation? One of the biggest beauty chain in this country, which also makes a lot of money from NHS prescriptions, apparently now pays next to no tax in this country. I'm seriously put off by that, but it is so hard to make ethical choices, when other companies, such as the online one based in the Channel Islands, are probably also benefitting from special tax status. So where do I shop, especially that we lost Sephora?
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You are always so insightful with your posting Jane. And, as always, you have hit the nail on the head. Full disclosure – I am in the PR profession (although not a beauty PR!) – and have been for nearly 20 years and it's changed so much. I started working for myself 5 years ago because of all the things you write about. Being in an agency was a very emotionally damaging environment: 14-16 hour days with no thanks from your clients or your boss. Not fun. Brands and journalists are intrinsically linked in this vicious cycle. As you say, brands should pay a decent fee for the work PRs do and also have realistic expectations – I once had a client (a photocopy shop) who absolutely expected me to get them on the front cover of the FT! Insane! I tried to explain to them that this was completely unrealistic, but they wouldn't listen. Journalists also feel under pressure to just churn out the rubbish that the big agencies send them….just because their clients advertise. PRs shouldn't be made to lie for a "case study" story. A boss once forced me to do a property related one, many years ago, and the misery was compounded because the journalist involved deliberately misquoted me as she had decided her angle and was going to shoehorn me in to in, no matter what. It's a vicious thing on all sides. Clients need to pay realistic money for their PR activity – PRs work HARD. PRs need to have more integrity in whom they choose to work with and for and journalists need to be open to the smaller brands and also to learn to write with integrity. I've made it my mission, since working for myself, to only work with people who I adore working with and brands I genuinely believe in. I don't charge them much (as they don't have much), but we work together in an open and honest way. I'm never going to make much money, but heck, I've rediscovered my love for what I do and feel fulfilled that (without working stupid hours) I am helping my small brands to grow. By the way, I stopped advising brands to do events years ago because, as you say, it became a numbers box ticking exercise. When I was younger, they were such a fun way to get to know a small handful of journalists and build proper relationships with them. Each attendee was truly valued. That's how it should still be, but (sadly) isn't. Sorry for the rant, but your timely email has struck a cord!
Disclosure I work in PR – travel not beauty. No excuses but the pressure the PR must have been under to agree to publicly declare how sweaty they were! What price on dignity? It would have taken one glance at Google to find out who the case study was so it's unlikely the national newspaper who published had no idea…..who made the decision not to mention the connection in the printed article so where does the responsibility lie? The PR will always take the flack from all sides.
I'm sure you didn't mean it like that but not ALL PR is about "churning out substandard, cut-price PR". Like all fields there is the good, the bad, and the ugly!


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About maskednativeI live in Ireland, in an extended cottage overlooking Waterford Estuary, privvy to constant changes of light on water, colour and movement, tides and people. I am anglo-Irish and although my initial intention was to live here for a year and a day, I am still here, a blow-in to these shores for the past fifteen years. There have been countless times when I wanted to run back to England with homesickness and relief, but for one reason or another, so far, it has not been possible. I surrender, the soul of Ireland has captured me, allowed a glimpse of the world behind the mask of everyday experiences, bringing forth a mixture of words and pictures from an ordinary everyday life, filled with ordinary everydayness that I offer as a celebration, to the creator of this truly wonderful planet.
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I too look to Nature and to my camera to bring a "lightness" into my life especially at those times when burdens are breaking my shoulders. I gazed at this image for a long time, just "feeling" the emotions I experienced. Thank you! 💝
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Wonderful " The absolute certainty of day and night and the belief that tomorrow will be different.".. And so it will be.. When we have that intent to make it so.. ❤
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Hi Sue, and thank you for your comments. It's been a while since I posted anything, must try harder and also to read your posts. I hope you are well, all best wishes. Teri
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If you start by casting straight across, you get swept right away, especially with softbaits."Elser also uses the current to find unique angles of approach. Using current to drift baits along bottom is a time-honored tradition in steelhead country. "Cast across the current or slightly downstream and a tube is swept along," he says. "It's like steelhead fishing. You feel the tick, tick, tick as it dribbles along bottom and then you work it and twitch it as it settles downstream of you. That's where you typically get bit. A 1/8-ounce head is ideal in most rivers when flows are average. It gives you a good drift and won't fall into crevices and snag often."That downstream swing works with various baits, including his Get Bit Grubs. "It's true with wind-driven currents in lakes, too," Elser adds. "Once the wind switches direction, you see fish position differently. Current is something I consider whenever I fish, in order to create the most efficient, natural presentation. Most of the time, bass want to see lures coming to them with the current."Guide and lure-maker Tim Hutchinson uses the currents of the Mississippi River to drift his Hutch's Hair Jigs naturally, timing things so the lure hits bottom near a key spot. "For me, the most critical thing is to make the jig hit bottom or get very close to bottom when it's straight across the current, at 90 degrees to the side of the boat," Hutchinson says. "Then I pump it or swim it, pulling it slowly toward me. But it has to stay within a foot of bottom the whole time. Smallmouths won't rise up as much in current. Many things they feed on are bottom huggers. And it helps if they hit the lure sideways. If they hit it upstream of that 90-degree angle they come off more often. You get more effective hook-sets when the jig first hits bottom on a tight line directly off to the side."Like Elser, Hutchinson uses current to drift lures to key spots. "In August and September, we often drift tubes on Carolina rigs," he says. "Match current to sinker weight so you end up with a look as natural as possible. We use 1/4- to 1/2-ounce sliding weights with a Gamakatsu 5/0 worm hook and an 18- to 24-inch leader."I like to fish wing dams with a trough on the upstream side. I position the boat above the wing dam so the trough is 25 to 30 feet below. We quarter our casts downstream and glide lures into the trough, letting current carry the rig. Start with short casts and make each one a bit longer."In this case, presentation is downstream, but the tube drifts to the bass from upstream—in the direction they respond to best. Earl Wells has a brother, Jim—a bass boat dealer now getting into boat manufacturing with Ballistic Boats. He also likes Carolina rigs in the strong flows of the Snake River. "We try to hold the boat in an eddy or out of the current. We fish from still water and let the current bring lures down into the eddy," he says. "We cast tubes upstream because that's more natural. When fishing Zoom Super Flukes on a heavy Carolina rig, however, you can fish at all angles to the current. I like a 2- to 3-foot leader behind a 3/4- to 1-ounce weight. I can work it faster. But when using a tube with an insert jig, I have to think more about casting from quartering to straight upstream, letting the Snake's strong current drag it down the eddy seam."Swimbaits, drop-shot rigs, suspending baits, bobber-wacky rigs, jig-plastic combos—every imaginable presentation for river smallmouths has an optimum cast-and-retrieve angle. As water levels rise, those angles contract. As water levels fall, they expand. You can beat the angle requirement two ways—dumb luck and heavy weight. Good anglers never count on the former. As for the latter, when smallmouths turn their noses up at presentations that fall like cinder blocks and crash heavily along bottom, only two options remain in moderate to heavy current: Find the right casting angle or go home.*In-Fisherman Field Editor Matt Straw, Brainerd, Minnesota, has fished rivers all his adult life and now lives on the Mississippi River. He often covers smallmouth bass topics. Get Your Fish On. Plan your next fishing and boating adventure here.


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You've heard of Elevator Speeches – those short 'blurbs' we offer when someone says, "What do you do for a living?" It should be short enough that if you were on an elevator with someone, you could spit it out before the doors open. It should be meaningful enough that your listener hears and understands what you're saying. And it should be intriguing enough that they want to know more. And that, as you know, is a tall order for something that lasts under 30 seconds.
Regardless if you're sales prospecting, speaking, asking for money or simply networking, your audience makes up its mind about you in the first few minutes.
And because the time allotted to give an Elevator Speech is short and you've got to grab your prospect's attention fast, every word counts. That's why I've compiled the best 9 tips for making your Elevator Speech rock. You pick and choose which of these tips is right for you:
Don't overload it with information. Instead, stick to 3 main points: What, why and how. The "What" of your Elevator Speech explains what you do in basic terms. Don't get fancy here and don't use technical terms. Saying, "We are a software company" works. Giving a 2 minute dissertation on base band cross platform scalable default configuration doesn't. (BTW, I have no idea what I just said there.)
The "Why" of your Elevator Speech explains why you exist. What problem do you solve? What bad thing do you prevent or what good thing do you make possible? "We send kids to college who otherwise couldn't go" works. "We make widgets because we love making widgets" doesn't.
The "How" of your Elevator Speech is how you do what you do. Simple, right? How do you send kids to college who otherwise couldn't go? By matching them with grants, loan programs and affordable colleges.
Here's the ultimate test: If you gave your elevator speech to someone over 70 and someone else under 12, would they understand it? If not, try again.
Open your Elevator Speech with the name of your company and follow it with your products and services you provide. Don't speak in generalisations – this is your chance to show how different you are. Assume your listener doesn't know your area of business, so don't use jargon and acronyms.
Next, outline why your product is needed and what problems it solves. This makes your business real to your listener and shows how it makes life easier or more productive for your customers. Practice your speech over and over again, and deliver it with confidence and enthusiasm.
To make your pitch persuasive, you'll want to be clear, credible and compelling.
We've already covered being clear – if the average person who isn't in your industry can easily understand what you're saying, then you're on the right track.
So how can you add to your credibility? It's not by comparing your business to someone else's – it's by telling what your business has accomplished. Even if it's that you've signed your first 2 clients or you've held your first class, state your achievements rather than trying to tear down any perceived competition.
To be compelling, your solution should represent a dramatic improvement in your niche. Being a dollar cheaper or 2% faster isn't enough, but showing a 2x improvement may make anyone sit up and take notice.
Final points….
Downloadable Quote Card: Here's the ultimate test: If you gave your elevator speech to someone over 70 and someone else under 12, would they understand it? If not, try again.
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We filled the 4x4 tank (65ltrs) and two jerricans (40ltrs) at Alice where the price was cheap (that's a relative term) and planned to top up the 4x4 tank at Tilmouth Well Roadhouse some 200km from Alice Springs.
The Tanami Track starts some 40km north of Alice and for the first 100km it's sealed. Eventually this sealed portion of the road narrows to a single lane with unsealed portions either side. That in itself can create a problem for the unwary driver who is now sharing the single sealed lane with oncoming traffic. The risk becomes even greater when it involves a road train. The important thing to remember about road trains is once the driver has worked his way up through the 32 odd forward gears and gained momentum he doesn't like to stop.
From Tilmouth Wells Roadhouse we faced 800km of unsealed and corrugated road. The trailer was still without shock absorbers and we all wanted to see how it would handle the road conditions. Would it jump around like a rabbit on a hot plate. Well it travelled rather well with plenty of movement in the tyres and springs, but little sign of the trailer wandering behind the 4x4. By trial and error we established 90km/h was the optimum speed for skipping over the corrugations.
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Our strategy for sharing the road was to slow down and get as far off the road as possible. Don't attempt to overtake the slower road trains as they tend to spew out rocks in all directions. Instead, stop and take a break. Fortunately we were only overtaken once (speeding Range rover) during the three days.
The bitumen ceased before we reached Tilmouth Wells Roadhouse and along with a road train, we stopped to let air out of the bottom of the 4x4 and trailer tyres. At Tilmouth Wells we stopped again to refuel the vehicle and make use of the porcelain facilities as we won't see them again until we reach Broome. Tilmouth Wells roadhouse is owned by the local aboriginal Ngurratjuta people, although the staff all appeared to be foreign backpackers. With a full tank and two jerricans we headed west.
Some six hours later I realised I'd
So we set up for the night some 50 metres south of the road. The location wasn't a random decision. The wind was from the south which meant all the fine talcum powder Tanami road dust raised by infrequent passing traffic would blow in the opposite direction.
During the night I was kicking myself for not filling the 3rd and 4th jerricans! I've created a crisis!
Our sleep was broken during the night by the sound of the occasional passing road trains. They actually sound like a jet aircraft passing overhead.
By mid morning on the second day the Isuzu on board computer was displaying we were using 9.6ltrs/100km and we had 230km of fuel left in the tank. That was more than sufficient to reach Halls Creek. One consequence of this was we became emboldened, deciding to make the 40km detour to view Wolf Creek Meteorite Crater.
The meteorite struck the earth here approximately 300,000 years ago and has been calculated as weighing 50,000 tonnes. It's the second largest meteorite crater in the world. It was only discovered by Europeans in 1947 during an aerial survey of the region.
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We are now well and truly into termite country. There are billions of termite columns. Some only 30mm high and other well over 2 metres.
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This is harsh country where the flora has to live for long period without rain whilst the termites gnaw at their roots.
It was with a sigh of relief we reached the junction with the sealed Great Northern Highway and signs of civilization (two wheel drive traffic). The low fuel warning light had been illuminated for the previous 100km! 20km later we reached the Shell service station at Halls Creek. The 4x4 fuel tank capacity is 65 ltrs and I added 63.8 litres to the tank. I won't make that mistake again!
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The best view of Halls Creek is in the rear vision mirror!
Well that's the last of unsealed roads on this trip. From now on it's bitumen all the way back to Perth. Only 3000 kilometres.


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Water consumption and quality: Relevance at postweaning
To achieve a good feed intake it is essential to reach adequate water consumption
Inti Veterinaris Assessors. Spain
Academic background
Bsc in Veterinary Medicine/Science and Animal Husbandry, Central University of Ecuador. 1995.
Homologation of his Bsc in Veterinary Medicine/Science by the MEC (Spain) in 2001.
Post-graduate degree in Pig Feeding. Swine Investigations Institute. Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba 1996.
Post-graduate degree in Swine Genetics and Reproduction. Swine Investigations Institute. Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba 1996.
Specialised Higher Studies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Bellaterra. 1998.
Post-graduate degree in Animal Welfare. Association of Veterinarians of Barcelona. 2009.
Work Experience
Field veterinarian, carrying out his work activity through several private companies in the pig sector in Spain, and Central and South America, such as boar studs, companies that build bodyworks for the transport of animals, farm-building companies, consulting companies, training centres, etc. He also provides technical advice to small, medium and large producers. Since 2009 he is consultant in Animal Welfare.
He also collaborates with several journals/magazines from Latin America and Spain, such as Porcicultura Ecuatoriana, from Ecuador (his country of origin); El Porcicultor y su entorno, from Mexico; Campo Abierto from Venezuela; Anaporc, Avances and Suis from Spain (where he currently lives); and Engormix, from Argentina.
Dr. Jacho López is a member of the faculty of the Quintanes Agricultural Familiar School in the specialities of Swine Management and Livestock Production. He currently manages investigation projects about matters having to do with sustainable pig production from the R+D+i department of Inti Veterinaris. He is also a member of the jury of the Quintanes-BBVA Award for Entrepreneurs in the Rural Environment.
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What If?
September 25, 2018
What if for no reason other than it suited the furthering of my political philosophy, I made up or greatly exaggerated an event that ruined your reputation or severely damaged your career?
What if the charges I'm making happened 35 years ago, and I could only remember some of the details? What if there was no way to prove or disprove these charges?
What if my political allies paid hundreds of people to protest against you because of my charges even though there is no witness and not a trace of evidence? It is simply me accusing you of something terrible.
What if, even though I claim the event traumatized me and haunted me still, I never reported the event to anyone — not a friend, not a teacher, not a parent, not a single person?
In fact, what if I waited 35 years to say anything about this event and only reported it on the eve of your getting a job you never dreamed possible … a job that would impact the future of our nation for a generation?
What if every single aspect of life were treated this way? What if we could simply say 'that black man did X to me'; "that white dude said X to me"; "20 years ago that bully assaulted me?" Chaos would certainly erupt if all it took to hurt our enemies was an unsubstantiated and unprovable charge made about an event so distant no one would remember it.
It wasn't long ago in America that someone accused was presumed innocent until a jury of peers found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. No more. Many liberals today say that when it comes to sexual harassment the burden of proof should rest with the accused.
Even worse, some think that if the accuser is a woman, then she should be believed no matter what. Democrat Senator Maizie Hirono of Hawaii said exactly that, "Not only do women like Dr. Ford … need to be heard, but they need to be believed."
Hirono, and many liberals like her, are in danger of establishing a standard of credibility based entirely on gender, and it's as unfair today as it was when women weren't allowed to testify in a court for no reason other than that they were women. In fact, women are still barred from testifying in many courts around the world and suffer the worst kind of abuse as a result. There's no place in America for that kind of hateful bias.
Some have compared the current environment surrounding sexual misconduct as conducive to witch trials. I'm not sure I'd go that far … yet. But if as in 17th century Salem we have to believe the accuser just because he or she is the accuser, then I'd say we've crossed a rather bright line between what almost any honest person would consider fair and unfair.
It's true that the guilty often escape punishment because of our high standard of guilt. But it used to be that those involved in our legal system believed it better that one hundred guilty escape rather than one innocent be punished unfairly.
Now another woman has come forward alleging misconduct from 35 years ago — an accusation also full of confusion that no one else she claims was present can corroborate. Some take the fact of a 2nd accusation as irrefutable proof that Kavanaugh is guilty. I do not.
In Salem 400 years ago, it was normally multiple accusers each feeding from and contributing to a spiraling hysteria that resulted in the burning of an innocent. In fact, the thing that surprises me is that more women haven't "remembered" traumas instigated by Judge Kavanaugh. Sadly, in a nation of 300 million there are normally more than a few people willing to say or do whatever is required to get their 15 minutes even at huge cost to another.
I don't doubt that the women accusing Judge Kavanaugh "remember" the events they've recounted. But memories are flawed. Sometimes things take a far worse complexion with the passage of time. Sometimes events become bigger, or they disappear all together. I just wonder whether the rest of us should really trust foggy and indistinct memories no one else has been able to verify.
If the U.S. Senate allows unsubstantiated and unprovable allegations to derail the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, they will have set a terrible and debilitating precedent. Even worse than the damage done to Judge Kavanaugh's reputation and career, they will have permanently mined the foundation of American rule-of-law: allegations must be proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Further, if Senate Democrats are allowed to kill Judge Kavanaugh's nomination on wholly unsubstantiated and unproved charges, then they will have contributed to an even further deterioration of people's belief in the credibility and legitimacy of our government.
It's already bad enough.
Judge Kavanaugh has produced dozens of witnesses who knew him in high school and college. Every one but these two, attest to his decency and honor. He's met about as high a moral standard as any man or woman in America could meet in this day and age. Unless real evidence is presented to the contrary, then the Senate must vote up or down and get on with business.
The accusers deserve a fair hearing, but fairness to the judge and a proper commitment to rule of law requires the accusers prove their allegations. If they can't, then the American people deserve a functioning Supreme Court and that means a full bench.
John Philip Sousa IV is an entrepreneur, political activist, author and accomplished business person. John has worked in the financial services industry for over 40 years, built a highly successful marketing company, ran for congress at age 24, and in 2016 created and led the successful movement to draft Dr Ben Carson into his candidacy for President of the United States. John is author of John Philip Sousa, A Patriot's Life in Words and Pictures and Ben Carson, RX for America.


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Katy Gallagher announced today that the 2005-2006 daylight savings would be extended one week due to the Commonwealth Games.
"The one-off extension, which is in response to a request from the Victorian Government, will ensure that our times are consistent with Victoria over the games period,†she said.
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In case you're worried about the legalities of it all, we're informed "The extension has been formally declared in accordance with the Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972."
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At WhichAddOn.com we are excited to have a focus on being transparent. To us, transparency in business means sharing the highs and the lows as well as telling the stories of how and why we do what we do. Even more specifically, we share what worked for us and what didn't – so you don't have to make the same mistakes.
When I look back on my career as a Xero trainer and business expansion coach – helping Xero advisors fast-track their Xero journey since 2014 – this has been the focus of my businesses since the beginning. At WhichAddOn.com, we learn and then we pass on what we have learned in an easy to understand way that helps you take action.
We have been tracking our key statistics since the site's launch 42 days ago, on 12 October. We have seen our page views reach almost 7500 in 30 days, but it's now dropped to 6233 in the last 30 days even though our subscribers are growing every day.
So what's working and what is not:
What's Working
- Our social media profiles are capturing subscribers who investigate who we are.
- Each time we post an article on social media and it is shared by an add-on, we gain subscribers.
- Direct relationship building is growing subscribers. Slowly.
Our main social media avenues are LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
What's Not Working
- Number of posts have dropped from 8 on average per week to 4
- Our posts haven't been shared on social media near as much
- Our content has been focused on one topic more than others
In the weeks after the launch, we were committed to reviewing 2 add-ons each per day. Marlon and I run this business – along with two other businesses – from our home in North West Sydney. We love to write in the mornings – we usually start work at 5 am and get as much writing as we can before the kids wake.
Each review takes between 3-6 hours to complete depending on the complexity of the solution. Creating a quality review is a must for us and we can't do this unless we really know the product. WhichAddOn.com is a free service for all involved – we aren't paid by anyone to do what we do. We don't believe you can have a truly educational experience and receive an unbias review if money is involved.
Let's drill down further into the what's not working…
Number of posts have dropped from 8 on average per week to 4
With the other two businesses we run focused on Xero training and Cloud Integrator services, sometimes it gets hectic dealing with student needs and client enquiries. We now aim to dedicate two days to writing four articles each for the week and then we will spread them out posted across the week. So once we write the posts, how do we consistently share them?
Our posts haven't been shared on social media near as much
We use Buffer – a social media posting app like Hootsuite – that has an in-built posting schedule across all your social networks. For only $10 per month, you can set up all your posts for the week and set it on auto-pilot. It will even notify you when the post stream is empty. We simply didn't fill up our Buffer app last week and the results speak for themselves.
Our content has been focused on one topic more than others
Given the mammoth task of reviewing add-ons which we have embarked upon, we decided that we would review each category at a time. We believed initially that this would help us review the add-ons faster because we are just focusing on one type and it would also enable us to create well-informed comparison reviews more easily. What we found though is not only did we struggled to stay focused and motivated to just discuss one topic all the time – our readers didn't want to read it either.
So we changed our ways and decided to start focusing on the top 5 or 6 add-ons in one category per week so we can share what we have learned and pass on the information that our readers want faster. We determine the top 5 or 6 add-ons per category, not just from the Add-On Marketplace, but also Google page ranking, user forums and our own research from our students and followers. We are well aware that there may be great add-ons we miss initially in our reviews – but we are confident that the great solutions will be introduced to us either way, just by starting the conversation about the top add-ons in a category.
It's important for us to be creating great content that our readers really want to learn. Here are our top tips on crafting useful content your readers want to read…
Top 3 Tips on Creating Great Content Your Subscribers Want To Read
Focus on communicating why AND how
So many people these days are so good at communicating why but not the how. The internet is full of why you need to manage your cash flow better but not many REALLY tell you how. If you focus on sharing with people why they need to do something then provide PRACTICAL, DO-ABLE, BITE-SIZE, ACTIONABLE tasks to achieve the results they are looking for. If you are marketing an add-on, tell your readers how your add-on is going to help them. Focus on the features and how to use them. Don't just list what it is that you do – explain how, exactly how. This not only empowers your potential customers, it helps train your existing customers with bite-size training too.
Write to your BCE ("Best Customer Ever") not everyone
Have you ever heard the saying "when you are marketing to everyone, you are marketing to no-one"? Whilst writing this article, I am thinking about a founder or key marketing person in an add-on company reading this article – no-one else. I am aware that anyone can read it and its content could be applicable to many businesses, but each time I stray from writing exactly to my Best Customer Ever – an ad-don in this case – I pull myself back to stay on topic.
Writing to your BCE (or maybe you have heard of Eben Pagan's Ideal Customer Avatar (ICA)), ensures that you are focused on sharing one message clearly to a targeted audience. The message remains clear and concise. Even if you are a very specific add-on that can solve problems in many types of industries, spend your marketing energy writing content just for a particular target market today, say, builders. That marketing message could be almost exactly the same tomorrow, but for accountants.
You get a reader who feels like you are writing just to him and you get the SEO from sharing your marketing message in lots of different ways whilst consistently sharing useful content that helps people know why and how they can use your add-on product.
Be consistent – almost predictable
Humans love predictability, but they don't like boring. I believe the fine line between predictable and boring is creative consistency. Now creative is something I'm comfortable with, consistency is certainly something I struggle with. I have always said my Dad has entrepreneurial ADD – maybe I have that. Ha.
What I do know is that when I have been consistent in my business, growth has always followed, significant growth. Having the right tools to help you stay consistent certainly makes all the difference. I've already shared my favourite consistency tool for social media management, Buffer, and in the coming weeks, I will continue to share my lessons on how to remain consistent in business as we share how WhichAddOn.com continues to grow even with 1000 fewer page views.
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Our Pre-Primary to year 5 students have been thoroughly enjoying the Edu-dance lessons so far, and from all reports their routines are coming along nicely. It is such a great program for our students – exercise, rhythm, balance, coordination and of course – fun!
Our Edu-dance concerts (one for the .1 classes, and one for the .2 classes) are scheduled for Tuesday 19th September (week 10) from 1.30pm. The finer details will be communicated once confirmed.
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Usborne Children's Book Fair At Baptist Hospital
Event date: 3/5/2020 to 3/6/2008
Location: Nashville
Usborne Books, publishers of award-winning children's books and educational materials will be hosting a Book Fair at Baptist Hospital, 2000 Church Street, in Nashville, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the March of Dimes. The Fair will be held in the GSO Education Center, Room "A" (21st Avenue side of the Hospital) on March 5, 2008 from 3 pm to 8 pm and March 6, 2008 from 7 am to 8 pm. Usborne Books expands a child's world through education and imagination, engaging all types and ages of learners. Rediscover the delight of reading with your child today. For information call Volunteer Services, Baptist Hospital @ 284-6185
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The Doclopedia #1,044
Ten Things You Didn't Know About…: Magical Girls
1: All Magical Girls are cute, even the naughty ones.
2: Their familiars can be anything from cats to rabbits to talking dolls to ambulatory shrubs.
3: Magical Girls always dress in the same three color combination, with each Magical Girl having different colors.
4: Magical Girls just love cookies and cute boys.
5: Unless they are REALLY naughty, Magical Girls hate evil things.
6: All Magical Girls wield very powerful magic, but…
7: …not all of them have great control of it.
8: Magical Girls sometimes become dangerously nervous in the presence of really cute boys.
9: Every Magical Girl has a distinct weakness.
10: Magical Girls usually don't get along well with Science Girls.
The Doclopedia #1,045
Ten Things You Didn't Know About…: The Towers Of Mars
1: The tallest rises up 10 kilometers.
2: The shortest rises up 7.5 kilometers.
3: There are 30 of them equally spaced around the Martian equator.
4: The Chinese exploratory mission got halfway up the Shortest tower before contact was lost with them.
5: Every 21 days, all of the towers emit a short burst of static electricity.
6: Although they are all made of the same white material, each one is covered in a different design.
7: Of the 5 missions to explore the towers, only the second US/Canadian team got back alive. All of the rest were lost without recovery.
8: Once a year, all of the towers hum for a full hours. No measurable effect has ever been found before, during or after the humming.
9: The only examples of life on Mars, the black grass ecosystem, are found circling the base of each tower out to 300 meters.
10: It has been found that the towers extend at least 3 kilometers below the Martian surface.


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Edition: Paperback – Borrowed
Published by: Candlewick Press, 22nd July 2014
Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Rating: 4 stars
A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies.
Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive.
How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?
As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?
From multi-award-winning Patrick Ness comes one of the most provocative and moving novels of our time.
I feel like whatever I say in this review will be a spoiler. It is best to read this book knowing nothing, apart from the basic summary. I'll try and keep this review brief and not reveal too much (hopefully). Continue reading "Review: More Than This by Patrick Ness"


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By John Orrell, Contributing Writer
Shrewsbury – High school football played in the month of December can mean only one thing – state championship matchups hosted at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.
Shrewsbury High School is one of those teams making the trip to the home of the NFL's New England Patriots Saturday, Dec. 3, where the Mid-Wachusett A, Central Mass. and Sectional Division 2 champion Colonials will lock horns with South champion Duxbury High School.
Shrewsbury enters this matchup with a huge dose of confidence having crushed Westfield High, 42-12, in state semifinal action Nov. 19. That victory followed convincing wins over St. John's High, 34-28, and Algonquin Regional, 21-14, in the CMass championship Nov. 12. The Colonials also knocked off Thanksgiving Day rival Wachusett Regional, 14-7, in last week's holiday contest.
"Going to play in Gillette is just awesome. It's the season we all dreamed about from the beginning of the season," said senior co-captain Jared Godek. "We wanted to make this so bad and it's finally here. I can't believe it because we aren't there yet but it's awesome."
"I'm just so proud of our kids. Our seniors have been awesome leaders all year," said head coach John Aloisi. "We faced a lot of adversity in the last couple of years. They stuck to the plan. I'm so happy for them."
Shrewsbury's 2016 season opened on a somewhat pedestrian note with losses to Nashoba Regional, St. John's and Algonquin Regional. As late as Oct. 28, the team's record was a modest 3-3 with the squad needing a spark to ignite players that everyone knew possessed an abundance of talent. That jumpstart occurred with a 27-7 win over St. Peter-Marian and followed with a 14-6 victory over Leominster. Those victories would set the stage for the playoff run that was about to unfold.
Saturday's contest will likely see more of the continued success the team has demonstrated in all game phases. The offense is on a torrid streak with a season-high six touchdowns in the Westfield pounding with sophomore quarterback Drew Campanale (1,491 yards, 20 TDs on the season) keeping opponents off balance with a lethal aerial attack mixed in with an effective ground game.
Look for receivers Chris Campbell, Brian Moura and Connor McAulay along with tight end Godek to be open downfield and the recipients of Campanale's mostly pinpoint accurate throws. Running back A.J. Laramee has been dominant down the stretch and is expected to receive the bulk of the carries along with other Colonials who will also contribute to the ground game.
The offensive line has been a force protecting Campanale and opening holes for Laramee and others. Grayson Lee, Noah Bortle, Nick Digirolamo, Kevin Phan, Mike Mulvena and Addison Ferrari will be upfront for the Colonials looking to slow down Duxbury defenders.
The defense will be anchored by Digirolamo and McAulay at the ends while Lee and Godek are stingy in surrendering yards to opponents and will be strong at the tackles. Mulvena, Laramee and Justice Lane will hold down the linebacker duties with defensive backs Ryan Trocki, Aidan Brown, Matt Mulcahy and Campbell roaming in the secondary.
Kicker Phil Smyrnios is blessed with an ultra-strong leg and is steady on PATs and a threat for field goals at long distances. Godek will continue to handle punt duties.
Look for Aloisi to shuffle in a number of players other than those listed throughout the game to maintain a balanced attack both offensively and defensively.
"This is probably going to be my last football game ever because I don't think I'm going to play in college," said Trocki, a senior co-captain. "It's awesome that it's going to be under the lights at Gillette. There's no better way to go out. I'm so proud of all my teammates for getting us to this point. Time to take care of Duxbury."
Taming Duxbury (11-1) will not be an easy task. The Dragons pounded Beverly in their state semifinal matchup, 41-14, with standout quarterback Bobby Maimaron leading the way. The team chose for their starters not to suit up on Thanksgiving Day and consequently was crushed by Marshfield, 53-0. It remains to be seen if the controversial decision by head coach Dave Maimaron to sit out players for more rest was a prudent one.


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Class No 905- fee $420
Tutor: : Jenna Packer
History as a tool box: ways of learning from the past and applying this to your current painting practice.
I will take students through a range of painting exercises each focused on a different aspect of painting, showing how we can use examples of paintings past to invigorate and problem solve as contemporary painters.
We will be working in acrylics in order to make best use of our time and because they best approximate a whole range of paint mediums. Using historical examples, we will focus on understanding colour, tone, brushmarks, and composition – including the language of shapes.
Beginning with exercises based on the work of painters such as Giotto (14th C)) to Dubuffet, Tony Fomison or Frances Hodgkins (20th C) we will be developing a set of skills and a way of seeing how and why a painting works for us. I believe in learning from the past, and using that knowledge to create something new and authentic. To do this, and not simply imitate, we must understand what really makes up the workings of a painting. We will have time during the class to apply what we are learning and to experiment with integrating this into our own work.
I want students to come away from this class with the tools for usefully 'deconstructing' a painting, whether it be medieval narrative or contemporary abstract, and for thoughtfully 'constructing' their own work. These are "tools which I use continually, whenever I feel stuck or at a loss in my painting practice: I have picked them up over time and in many places, and I find them incredibly useful!
After graduating from Ilam School of Art in 1988 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Jenna went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts in History (First-Class Honours) at the University of Canterbury the following year. Through the 1990's she continued her art training with time spent at the Glasgow Print Workshop, Otago Polytechnic, The Slade School of Art (London) and La Rouelle Studio (France). A painter, printmaker and illustrator, Packer has been exhibiting her work since 1990 both within New Zealand and abroad. After several years living in France she returned to Waitati, coastal Otago, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her most recent work draws on concerns about the politics and impacts of climate change, as well as her interest in social history [The Water Project at www.thewaterprojectnz.org and The Art of the Deal, www.milfordgalleries.co.nz] She is represented in Dunedin and Queenstown by Milford Galleries.
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Traditional multichannel providers, such as cable, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and telcos, lost 860,640 video subscribers in the second quarter of this year, according to a new report from S&P Global Market Intelligence's Kagan arm. The data suggests that as of June 30, 2018, there were 92.2 million subscribers in the US, which accounts for 89.4 million residential customers. Of the traditional options, DBS (Satellite-based TV) saw the greatest quarter losses (478,000 customers) which the report states represents "its second largest quarterly decline on record." Although in reality, cable did not fare much better with 2018 losses (Q1 and Q2 combined) understood to be in the region of 685,790 – with the second quarter representing cable's largest "video subscriber drop since 2015."
While these figures suggest traditional providers are continuing to lose customers at a heightened rate, the bigger picture is not quite as clear-cut as that, with Kagan stating the pressure on these providers actually lessened in the second quarter. The reason being, and in spite of the customer losses through traditional TV consumption methods, the increase in the use of virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs) went a long way in offsetting against those losses – by as much as 45-percent overall. In other words, when factoring in vMVPDs, the number of multichannel subscribers in the US rose from the 92.2 million to 93.5 million. A figure which also represented a 75-percent residential multichannel penetration rate.
In the report, Kagan specifically draws on the popularity of DIRECTV NOW and Sling TV as two of the vMVPDs that have directly contributed to the lessening of losses. This is important to note, as although these two specific vMVPD options are seen as competitors to cable providers and satellite services, DIRECTV NOW is owned by a cable provider (AT&T) and and Sling TV is owned by a satellite service (DISH Network). Therefore, from the perspective of these two multichannel providers in particular, almost half of the lost subscribers overall were not lost in the traditional sense, as they had simply switched to an alternative method of consuming the same content. The switching and not declining point tallies well with another report that came through this week based on data collected by comScore.


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Mark Zuckerberg on what he thinks the primary applications of the Oculus VR headset will be:
"The reason we're excited in this space is the continued progression of people getting richer and richer ways to share what's on their mind. Ten years ago it was text. Now it's mostly visual and photos, then primarily video and we're seeing huge growth there, but that is not the end of the line. Immersive 3D content is the obvious next thing after video."
Interesting to think about how VR within Facebook might look. One application I can envision would be someone posting a virtual reality video (I'll call it a "VR") of their wedding reception and their friends can put on their own virtual reality headset and experience it. Those without a virtual reality headset will watch it more like a traditional video.