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I thought about entitling this post "A wilful refusal to respect the consumer", since that is what appears to lie at the heart of the organic industry's problems. The UK organic market has shrunk by 20% over the last four recorded years, whilst most international markets have been experiencing growth, despite the economic downturn affecting European and North American markets, as here. The disparity with other markets is put down to factors such as a lack of government and retailer support in the UK.
The arguments given for the UK's poor organic market performance are, in all honesty, rather lame. For instance, retailers will readily respond to increased consumer demand, developed by effectively targeted and executed campaigns, particularly when that shift in demand is from a cheaper to a premium product. One has only to look at the stunning success of Fairtrade to see the results of a single-minded campaign: in 2001 the organic market was 14 times larger than Fairtrade sales; in 2011 Fairtrade was 4% larger than organic at £1.7bn and has continued to grow during the recession. In addition, unlike organic, Fairtrade does not have the advantage of a direct tangible benefit to the consumer, other than a feeling of having made a difference to others.
There are many examples of highly successful organic brands in the UK, such as Yeo Valley, Green & Black's, Organix and Rachel's, which have adopted appropriate marketing strategies to develop their markets and grow their brand franchises. Developing the market for a generic product requires different strategies, tools and techniques, however. Above all, it needs the ability to really listen to what the consumer is saying and to provide what she or he is asking for; for some, exercising this level of humility appears a little difficult.
A willingness to understand the consumer
At a recent Soil Association trade briefing the results of a round of qualitative consumer research were presented. The key findings to this audience member were fascinating, not because they revealed anything particularly new, but reconfirmed all the key insights that OMSCo (Organic Milk Suppliers Cooperative) discovered from its research over ten years previously. A key revelation is that most consumers have very little clue what organic is, and what makes it different. As the presenter said "there is a void of understanding", yet the consumer positively wants to know more. Another major finding is that price is a red herring – if consumers cannot understand what makes the product different they are unable to complete the value equation. Thirdly, it is clear that health is the primary (but not the only) motivator for purchasing organic.
The solution for the UK organic market is as clear today as it was to OMSCo in 2001: give the consumer the facts to enable them to make an informed decision. So why is this not happening? The simple reason is that the organic industry, with a number of honourable exceptions (such as the brands cited above), is dominated by producer-led thinking. This includes the inability to see things from the point-of-view of consumers (or often even to conduct research to find out those views) and a disregard of one of the basic techniques of strategic marketing – that of segmentation.
Removing the blinkers
Many in the world of organics are so steeped in the benefits of the production system that they seem unable to see that consumers will simply turn away if presented with a confusion of reasons to switch their purchasing habits. Consumers are also unthinkingly all thrown into one undifferentiated mass (the Soil Association talks of targeting "everyone"), rather than understood as the separate market segments that they are. For a good example of a comprehensive – but practically focused – segmentation study, the recently released Regeneration Roadmap research report entitled 'Re: Thinking Consumption – Consumers & The Future of Sustainability' is an excellent example. Segmentation does not have to be quite as sophisticated as this, but the right thought process is critical: blind belief in one's own infallible understanding of the market will simply not cut the mustard. Nor will a mistaken belief that retailers will do the job for you.
This refusal to really understand, and engage with, the consumer was made clear to me by a senior figure in the industry many years ago who said "there's no need to do market research". I was also told by this same person that the proposition for organic milk should be "All milk is good – organic milk is even better". This, frankly, rather vacuous observation betrays a viewpoint not based upon facts, but a rather condescending attitude in its refusal to accept what the consumer is thinking and saying. The task is not to communicate that an entire product category is good (which the consumer largely believes already) and that your product is a bit better in some ill-defined way; it is to give a compelling reason as to why your product is sufficiently superior to command a price premium that is worth paying.
Transparency not fudge
The biggest problem has been the decision by many in the industry to place the fear of upsetting conventional farmers above the need for consumers to be told the truth about what happens on non-organic farms, including some of the worst practices. This lack of transparency, in clarifying the real differences between the farming systems, is often explained away by the observation that some conventional farmers' practices are nearly as good as (or sometimes better than) those of organic farmers. This may be so, but it is irrelevant. How is the consumer supposed to be able to tell the difference between a product from a non-organic 'good' farm and a 'bad' one? This rather contemptuous attitude towards the consumer ignores how we all rely on brands (in this case 'organic') to give us a short-cut to making informed choices. It would be inconceivable for a normal brand to omit to tell its potential customers how exactly it was a better choice because of the drawbacks of its competitors. Once given the facts – the plain truth, not a vanilla fudge which helps to protect intensive farming – consumers can draw their own conclusions about the implications for their health and that of their families.
Non-organic farmers should, in any case, surely be encouraged to convert. This will be best accomplished by building a healthy and growing organic market, to give confidence to more conventional farmers to switch their production system, particularly those who already farm in more enlightened ways. But having converted, and taken on board the consequential additional costs, producers cannot expect consumers to pay the price, required to produce a sufficient return, without fully explaining the basis for the product's superiority.
The mantra from the Soil Association appears to be one of just "telling positive stories" to the consumer, which includes explaining what organic systems involve and what they avoid – but not the reality of the alternative, that most people buy most of the time. The Soil Association website provides some good background material on pertinent issues, such as how the use of farm antibiotics is affecting human health but much of the information is not made available in a consumer-friendly form that an audience can readily understand and act upon. Compare this to the way that Fairtrade makes clear the issues surrounding the sourcing of bananas.
This coyness does not, almost certainly, reflect the arguments that those in the industry would use face-to-face to try to persuade an enquirer as to why a switch to organic makes sense. Fairtrade is booming in significant part because consumers have been made aware of what conditions can be like for small-scale farmers and workers in the developing world. The majority of eggs purchased in the UK now are free-range (at a premium of up to 30%), because consumers have been made aware of the conditions that battery hens suffer. The unwillingness to convey a sufficiently explained and compelling message also opens up the organic movement to competition from weaker propositions, such as Bill Oddy's White & Wild milk or the new 'free-range' initiative.
Focusing on the key issue
Another key problem that has dogged the development of the organic market is an unwillingness to communicate a simple, focused, message that will cut through the noise, as all the best brand campaigns do. That message should clearly be related to health, as all the research that has ever been carried out with consumers in the UK on organics show. The qualitative research recently conducted by the SA confirmed it, as does the quantitative research referenced in the 2012 Organic market report, which cites health-related issues as the top three reasons for buying organic by consumers.
So why does so much organic communication continue to deploy a confusion of messages, particularly in advertising? Just about the first thing that advertising practitioners, and the clients who use advertising, are taught is that you should concentrate on one key message in a campaign. One of the reasons for the confusion of messages appears to be the inability of organic practitioners to see that the viewpoint of most consumers is very different from their own. Whereas for many working in organics environmental and animal welfare factors (quite admirably) are seen as the biggest single reasons for switching, for instance, the health of themselves and their families is, as already stated, the biggest motivator for most consumers.
Another reason given for not talking about health-related issues is the regulatory difficulties in making claims and comparisons. There is no question that this can be demanding, but it is not impossible (as the OMSCo campaign showed), and is simply an obstacle to be overcome: using it as a reason to talk about something else as the key message, such as animal welfare, is absurd when health is clearly the key motivator for potential new switchers. It is argued that we cannot claim that "organic is healthier": this is correct, even though we may all believe that the statement is true, but we don't have to claim it as such. However, give the consumer the facts about the massive use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers on intensive farms, for instance, and they will draw the obvious conclusions.
A failure of strategy and execution
The Organic Trade Board's generic campaign for organic – with match-funded EU money, giving a pot of £2m – completely failed at its first attempt ('Why I Love Organic'). An objective was set in 2008 to double the value of the organic market by 2013, whereas it has actually shrunk by 20% so far, as previously stated.
There initially appeared to be no attempt at appropriate market segmentation or targeting: comment around the time of the launch talked about "focussing on broadening the customer base rather than encouraging already committed shoppers". This appeared to demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the market, which obeys the classic 80:20 Pareto principle – i.e. 80% of sales are accounted for by only 20% of purchasers (the figures have hovered around this ratio for over 10 years). With household penetration of organic food at around 80%, there is no point in increasing penetration ("broadening the customer base"), or, of course, in focusing on the heavy purchasers at the other end of the market. The key target market is clearly the occasional organic buyers (or sub-segments of this large group), who account for around 80% of all purchasers.
Executionally, the campaign took a disastrous approach for the first year. Breaking the cardinal rule of advertising already alluded to, the advertising used a perplexing range of bland reasons, attributed to convinced organic users. As the 2011 Organic Market Report stated: "Its main messages focus on four key benefits – organic farming is better for nature and for animal welfare, and it delivers great-tasting, more natural food". The use of the word "focus" creates an oxymoron in conjunction with no less than four key messages, and the single-minded message related to health, needed to attract attention and achieve cut-through, was nowhere to be seen.
Unsurprisingly, a new campaign was launched in May 2012, using the strapline 'Organic. Naturally different'. The execution is definitely more attention-grabbing and incisive, is more focused on health-related issues and is more prepared to allude to differences with non-organic production. It also is correctly being targeted at occasional organic purchasers. However, a poster campaign can never begin to explain what is being timidly intimated at. In addition, there would still appear to be some belief that it is necessary to be targeted "at everyone".
PR and online activity are, in any case, far more effective vehicles than advertising for conveying factual stories with some key details to absorb. Unfortunately, even here, the campaign appeared to fail, on at least one occasion. Advertising can work extremely well for building rapid awareness for brands (e.g. Yeo Valley), and then reinforcing and sustaining loyalty; it is a poor vehicle for communicating a variety of messages for a generic category (or categories), however. Advertising is more fun, however, and creates a higher trade profile, whereas PR and online require ongoing and sustained hard work and attention to detail.
One of the Tube cross-track poster executions, in the new campaign, deploys two apples discussing the use of "treatments" by one of them. The sort of killer information that would be more likely to result in a change in consumer behaviour, which is what one would presume everyone in the organic industry wants, is contained in a Soil Association statement quoted in Marketing magazine on 12 August 2009, however. It stated that "consumers should be worried that the average industrially produced apple may have been sprayed up to 16 times with 30 different chemicals". This is precisely the kind of information that PR and online activity is far better suited to communicating, and also far more hard-hitting. With a much higher communications budget, there could be a useful complementary role for advertising as well, but that really is not the case here.
Learning from success
It is not as though the successful template did not already exist, in OMSCo's strategy from 2001-2006. The 5-year PR campaign, that flowed from the strategy, single-mindedly concentrated on health-related issues, using facts about organic versus conventional production and the growing scientific evidence of nutritional benefits (e.g. higher omega 3 levels). The key proposition was that it's worth paying more for organic milk because it's better for you. Other benefits were not ignored, but they played a minor role in the campaign. The result of this strategy was that annual sales growth for total UK organic milk sales never dipped below 21% over the period and went as high as 44% (liquid milk annual sales increases went up as high as 65% per year). Household penetration of organic milk meanwhile went from 8% to 24%. (For full details on this very successful case study refer to the post "Cows eat grass, so how can milk be organic?").
A critical lesson from the OMSCo experience was one that confirmed a key conclusion drawn from the research alluded to early on in this piece. The retail price premium for organic milk over ordinary milk at point-of-sale was 50% in 2001, dropping to a minimum of 23%, and rising again to 40% in 2006, at the same time as we were seeing huge increases in consumer uptake. Yet many in the industry routinely bang on now, as then, about the "need to compete on price". It is another instance of an apparent obliviousness to the fundamentals of strategic marketing, in this case the role of pricing in supporting premium products, examples of which exist in vast abundance. A price premium only becomes an issue when there is a complete failure to communicate effectively the benefits of organic products. The consumer viewpoint is "if it's that much better, I expect to pay more for it; if it costs the same, or thereabouts, it can't be as good as you say it is."
Until the organic movement is prepared to adopt the basic principles of good strategic marketing, such as understanding your consumer, segmenting the market appropriately, careful targeting, establishing the optimum positioning, using the most effective media and telling a consistent single-minded message backed up by the plain facts, the market will continue to stumble. This learning can be applied to the building of all markets for sustainable products, however. Using the most persuasive message, whatever it is, is more likely to result in the achievement of all the sustainability objectives and eventually reach 'everyone' in the market. Let go of the producer-led thinking and, using consumer insight and professional marketing expertise as a guide, realise the potential that exists for the bold.


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Details on new names in ECW tonight
On Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:49 PM EST
Tonight's edition of ECW on Sci Fi featured the debuts of four new wrestlers on the roster. This included Yoshitatsu, Abraham Washington, Sheamus and FCW Champion Tylder Reks.
Yoshitatsu (Naofumi Yamamoto) has been under a WWE developmental deal since September 2008 and had worked in New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Abraham Washington (Brian Jossie) has been in FCW under the manager name Abraham Saddam (later Abraham Obama) Washington.
Sheamus (Sheamus O'Shaunessy) is an irish talent who has been in FCW for some time under a developmental deal. He has been working WWE events recently including house shows and dark matches at TV tapings.
FCW Champion Tyler Reks (Gabrielle Tuft) debuted in a backstage vignette as a dreadlocked California surfer type and was signed to a WWE develompental deal in February 2008. He has been at the top of the cards in FCW recently.
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Though I love luxury beauty products, I can't believe that I've never tried Lancome. I've had a few perfume samples before, but never have I tried the company's cosmetics. I was excited to finally try the Teint Idole Ultra Wear foundation when I got a sample over the summer in a Sephora order.
Initially, I was concerned about the shade. I received shade 500, which I suspect it would be a little too light for me. Based on the beauty vloggers I've seen on YouTube, I suspected that I probably wore a 510 or 520. But 500 was the closest shade to my complexion, so I decided to try it. I got it when I still had a bit of my summer tan, so I figured it might be a little too light. To my surprise, it was a perfect match then, and still a pretty great match now.
Both sides of my face with the foundation applied
You can see for yourself how flattering the finish is. I love this foundation. It felt light on the face and, while I use a primer underneath it, I didn't use powder over it, so I got to see just how the foundation performed without any products topping it. I got a little oily throughout the day, but that's fairly standard for me with any foundation. I didn't feel that this formulation made my skin any oilier than normal. just a dad was enough to give me a good medium coverage. I experimented with it on a different day and I found that it's very buildable: this coverage could easily go from medium to full without weighing the face down. I don't have many facial lines, but I also found that this foundation doesn't exaggerate the lines that I have. Win!
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I'm so excited to have another foundation in my arsenal! This foundaton performs just as well as I would expect it to, since it retails for $47. I'm going to experiment with a few other shades in the Teint Idole Ultra Wear line just to see if there's a better match than this one, but if I can't find anything that matches more perfectly, this will be just fine. I love it and can't wait to try more!
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan used units like this more for combat security or military police than the role they were designed for. Finally, the 151st is getting back to its main role — landing 100-pound rounds on conventional enemy targets, up to 15 miles away.
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As the Coalition prepares to unveil its new Freedom Bill, many of those employed in the UK's massive Child Protection Industry fear that their jobs may be at risk as they watch the child protection gravy train gradually slip off the rails.
The government will announce that the controversial Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) will be scrapped and replaced with a more limited scheme whilst Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks will also be significantly scaled back.
The coalition states that its intention is to bring "some common sense" to the issue in an attempt to end the fear that many adults have of working with children.
The proposals will also cover those working with vulnerable adults.
Meanwhile, soon to be out of work child protection 'experts' and grim sounding policemen have been popping up all over the airwaves claiming that every child will now be at risk. TheOpinionSite.org is not surprised at this.
Well, they would say that wouldn't they? Yes, they would …and they have.
There are currently about 2 million people working in child protection in the UK, a country with a population of just over 60 million. Or to put it another way, we have more child protection 'professionals' per head of population than any other country in Europe and more than any other country in the world…with the exception of America , which is where the British got their ideas from in the first place.
Governments have used child protection and sex offenders to win votes, charities have made a fortune and want more, crusaders have received far too much publicity. Meanwhile, children believe that all adult men who smile at them must be paedophiles (so does everyone else!) and adults have become terrified of children, often seeing them as a curse that should be avoided at all costs.
And still the child protection lobby claim that they are right.
If that us true, then Britain really is a nation of perverts – of both sexes – and the best idea would be for all children to be locked up out of harms way; which, thanks to the fear that the 'experts' have created, is largely how they are treated nowadays anyway.
Yet the irony – and this is something that the child protection zealots, politicians, policemen and others with vested interests are terrified of admitting – is that most abuse takes place within the home and is not committed by those from whom these 'professionals' claim to be protecting our children.
The facts show that there is actually very little 'stranger danger' and that CRB checks and all the other mechanisms directed towards strangers abusing children is not only too expensive but also socially corrosive.
TheOpinionSite.org, together with very many others, believes that the perceived threat to children from strangers is a myth that is perpetuated by those who make their comfortable living from an industry created from and driven by paranoia and fear.
Policemen, who should know better, together with child charities claim that all sex offenders re offend. However, the facts show that they do not. The 'protectors', including outfits like CEOP, claim that there should be no limit to the amount of money that they can spend on making the lives of ordinary people an absolute misery. They claim that all children are potentially at risk. They are not and never have been. Parents are not that stupid and neither are most children, even the very young.
Money that should be spent on educating children is instead being wasted on their imagined protection.
All the child protection measures currently costing so much money only target those who have already been convicted. Yet the most obvious truth is that they are not the potential threat. It is the rest of us; those who have not been caught.
In order to really protect children, every member of every family would need to be checked – including all children. Believe it or not, 33% of those convicted of sexual offences are children themselves. Such is the madness to which this country has finally come.
The scaling back of CRB checks and the scrapping of the VBS do not represent a threat to children. However, the measures are a threat to some unscrupulous employers who ask for CRB checks even when they are unnecessary. The proposals are therefore to be welcomed.
Those 'professionals' and 'protectors' about to lose their jobs – and there seems to be little sympathy for them – should thank themselves fortunate that they have had it so good for so long. They have had their time and must now move over for a more realistic and pragmatic approach.
TheOpinionSite.org can already hear the outcries and terrifying warnings of danger from the NSPCC (already heavily funded by government by the way), Childline, Kidscape, and all the other multitudinous money grabbing leeches that started with good intentions and instead turned into a multi-million pound industry that everyone in power seems afraid to criticise. We suggest that they all keep quiet, move over and let common sense and reason take their place.


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Master of the House
An enjoyable and entertaining film that is involved in a complex discussion about its progressiveness. I liked it on its own merits, and also enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about the issues involved.
This is a perfectly lovely domestic comedy, one that provides a view into the life of a 1920s lower-middle-class Danish family.
Its director, Carl Theodore Dreyer, does a great job of creating a lived-in feeling for the world that his characters inhabit. I enjoyed the film, with its straightforward narrative of an out-of-work and tyrannical husband, being taught to appreciate all the hard work his wife does to keep their family afloat.
I've spent much of my time since watching it though, pondering a narrative that I've seen widely reported; that this film should be considered a landmark early work of Feminism.
The film is a work of admirable restraint and it's almost totally lacking in histrionics. Dreyer does a marvelous job of crafting the feel for the film, which takes place almost entirely within the cramped confines of the family's apartment. He had working appliances installed, and filled up all the drawers, even those which were never intended to be opened.
Dreyer believed that this attention to detail would make his actors feel more comfortable on set, and thus get better performances out of them. While I don't have any proof that this technique worked, this is certainly a refreshingly honest film.
The acting in particular is remarkably naturalistic, and, importantly for a story of this type, the husband it much more sarcastically rude than he is barbaric.
As for the politics, we have a tendency to view the past as though it was completely divorced from our clearly much more "modern" ideas. Anything we find that counteracts this notion is treated as though it's a making a statement, rather than simply reflecting what were common positive attitudes of the time. So, from our perspective, the husbands of 1925 were all monsters, and it's only now that they're enlightened.
That this is patently false is clear on both fronts; the men of the 20s were not all cavemen, and not all modern men are anything like fully enlightened. If anything, I'd say this film might make more of a political statement now, in our current world of culture wars and regressive notions of things, than it did in its own time.
The idea that "women's work" had value was not a novel one in 1925, and there are many contemporary films that feature the narrative of men taking their wives for granted. From what I've read, only the most absurd Neanderthals of this time would have been offended, or shocked, by this premise. That this film comes off as more progressive than some seems more tied to Dreyer's staunch belief in realism as an art form.
So many films from this period were slapstick farce, and thus less impressive as any kind of statement. This film lacks any of that stagey overacting and demonstrativeness, and therefore has a much more serious feel to it, even as it's a fairly innocuous story at its core.
I've gone back and forth as to whether I feel this film is particularly progressive. I think it's a mixed bag. For one thing it's still extremely gendered; the wife and daughter are responsible for doing basically all of the chores, while the son plays outside and the husband is out of the house. For another, when the wife finally does take a break from her family, in order to teach her husband his lesson, she essentially falls apart. She's unable to cope with not doing the domestic chores she's used to.
While the husband does eventually begin to help around the house, it's treated more as a temporary situation to learn to respect his wife, rather than any kind of statement about changing things in the future.
Maybe it's not all that groundbreaking in its presentation of these issues, and maybe it's been over hailed as some sort of larger statement. That's perfectly fine with me, as it's still a refreshingly humane story. And I was as surprised as anyone to see this relatively positive treatment of women, and enjoyed the ensuing education about this era.
But, mostly, after watching films like Safety Last!, where I had to ignore racist stereotypes to enjoy myself, it's nice to watch a film from this era where we can even have this debate. Certainly this is a nice narrative about the importance of understanding and respecting the work that so many women do.
And while that may not have been a terribly revolutionary message for its time, it was still extremely enjoyable to watch, and definitely worthwhile, even if it's not "important."


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On Saturday we travelled down to Melaka for a couple of nights. Our hotel looked over KG Morten which is a typical Malaysian village. We did a cruise on this river - was a bit smelly!
Whilst in Malaysia there was a big Indian festival. This decoration done with rice was in the hotel foyer.
On Sunday we decided to use the trishaw as a means of transport - we actually needed 2 as the seats were rather small - or were our seats rather large???
Wayne in front of me - the trishaws were hired to take us to the ferry but the men came back and collected us and took us around for the rest of the day. Much easier than walking in the heat and they went fast enough to create a bit of breeze - not an easy way to earn a living!
We visited the King's Palace which is now a museum.
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As July 4th approaches, our thoughts turn to parties and bar-be-ques. We celebrate our freedom and rightfully so. Freedom is a wonderful thing. Our thoughts also go to the people who fought, some who even gave their lives so we could be free. There was a huge price paid so the rest of us can be free. My thoughts turned to another scene where blood was shed to purchase freedom. Our dear Lord Jesus suffered and he too paid the ultimate price to give us freedom. Freedom from sin and death. The Bible says, "If the Son sets you free, you are truly free. At this time of year, let's be thankful for those who suffered and served to give freedom but let's also take a moment to say Thank You to the one who really set us free.


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God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades elicits an immediate and visible emotional response from any red-blooded Christian or Muslim who thinks they're halfway familiar with their religion's heritage, and that's just the title. Award-winning author and sociologist Rodney Stark humbly goes to war against the many politically correct myths surrounding the history of the Crusades in this well-researched and easy-to-read academic masterpiece. His blunt and unapologetic "it is what it is" style strips Muslim culture of any noble romanticism and traces its conquering and oppressive roots back to Muhammad. Stark proves himself once again as a historical myth-buster.
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About the Author: Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, and began his career as a newspaper reporter. Following a tour of duty in the U.S. Army, he received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he held appointments as a research sociologist at the Survey Research Center and at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He left Berkeley to become Professor of Sociology and of Comparative Religion at the University of Washington. In 2004 he joined the faculty of Baylor University. He has published 38 books and more than 160 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome. However, the greater part of his work has been on religion. He is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. He also has won a number of national and international awards for distinguished scholarship. Many of his books and articles have been translated and published in foreign languages, including Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish.


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The "GO TEX SHOW – International Trade Fair for Textile Products" received, on 28 October, the president of CCCT – China Chamber of Commerce of Import and Export of Textiles Hui Jiang , which opened the program of the " Textile Forum on China-Brazil" with the presentation "Current Panorama of Chinese Textile Industry and the Way for Brazilian companies reach the world's largest market ".
The executive provided important data on the largest producer of textiles and clothing world, which reaches an annual turnover of $ 300 billion. According to the executive, only from January to August 2014, the textile market and Chinese clothing handled more than $ 210 billion, and has been exported a total of US $ 193 billion in goods and imported $ 17.6 billion.
The largest consumer market for Chinese products is the European Union, which, from January to August this year, bought $ 40.16 billion in goods from China. The US ranks second place with $ 29.16 billion. The countries of Asia, excluding Japan, occupy the third position with $ 22.73 billion in goods purchased from China, while Japan is alone in fourth place with $ 15.4 billion and bought the first eight months the year in textiles and clothing from China.
According to Hui, Brazil in 2013 bought US $ 4.11 billion in textile and clothing products from Chinese manufacturers, and 34.5% of imports are fabrics. But the main Brazilian products purchased by Chinese companies is cotton.
For Brazilian companies wishing to enter the Chinese market, Hui reveals that CCCT has an exhibition center in the city of Shanghai, where events with the participation of many foreign companies are carried out, including conditions differentiated to encourage the participation of Brazilian companies.
According to the executive, Brazil and China can complement each other, as there are still markets where Chinese enterprises need to improve. To reach the Chinese market, Brazilian companies need to focus on quality, product differentiation adding Brazilian securities that the Chinese appreciate. "Brazilian football, for example, is famous in China; A Brazilian company develops a product that is related to a great Brazilian player, this product is sure to be a success in China, "he says.
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Today is Wednesday July 26, 2017.
Just when everyone thought that Mother Nature was going to calm down a bit, she threw us another curve, this time with the wind.
Yesterday ended up being a blow off day just when the off-shore bite was really coming into its own.
It's strange how the close to shore bite was mainly on either meat rigs or some type of flasher/fly combination and yet the off-shore bite has been mainly on spoons.
Today will be everyone back in the search mode, trying to figure out where they went and what to use.
The LOC Summer Derby wraps up this Sunday, July 30th, so there's still time to enter and claim your portion of that big pile of cash that's up for grabs.
August is always a busy month on Lake Ontario, especially in Orleans County, with the Orleans County Rotary Fishing derby taking place from August 5th to the 20th this year.
The Fall LOC Derby follows which runs from August 18th through September 4th.
And let's not forget the Greater Niagara Fish Odyssey running from August 19th to the 27th this year.
Throw in the 3rd leg of the King of the Oak Derby on August19th and you have a very busy month.
On Lake Alice muddy water is finally starting to clear which should start improving the catches.
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Čuguns Ceļotājs Cast Iron Traveler
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Vice President for Student Affairs
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Stockton encourages a campus culture that values and understands respectful interaction, and supports that through numerous programs, activities, offices and other resources. We strive to reinforce the values of a decent and honorable community by elevating the civil, respectful behavior and personal responsibility of every Stockton community member. You – our valued Stockton students—are our first priority and our most important partner.
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Jamy D. Ard is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention and the Department of Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He is also co-director of the Wake Forest Baptist Health Weight Management Center, directing medical weight management programs. Following completion of his residency training, he was selected to serve as a chief resident in internal medicine at Duke. He also received formal training in clinical research as a fellow at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center. During this time, he participated in a focused research experience on lifestyle interventions for hypertension and obesity at the Duke Hypertension Center. Dr. Ard's research interests include clinical management of obesity and strategies to improve cardiometabolic risk using lifestyle modification. In particular, his work has focused on developing and testing medical strategies for the treatment of obesity in special populations, including African Americans, those with type 2 diabetes and older adults. Dr. Ard has participated in several major NIH funded multi-center trials including Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), DASH-sodium, PREMIER, and Weight Loss Maintenance Trial. He has been conducting research on lifestyle modification since 1995 and has received research funding from a variety of federal and foundation sources, including the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His work has been published in numerous scientific journals and he has been a featured presenter at several national and international conferences and workshops dealing with obesity. Dr. Ard has more than 20 years of experience in clinical nutrition and obesity. Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest in 2012, Dr. Ard spent nine years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Department of Nutrition Sciences. Dr. Ard has served on several expert panels and guideline development committees, including the Institute of Medicine Committee on Consequences of Sodium Reduction in Populations, the AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, and the American Psychological Association Obesity Guideline Development Panel. He is also serving on the editorial board for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the International Journal of Obesity. Dr. Ard received an M.D. and completed internal medicine residency training at Duke University Medical Center.
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ABC Artisan Daily Drizzler: (Mixed Blossom Honey)
Fresh with floral notes, our 'Daily Drizzler' is the result of our happy bees harvesting the freshest nectar from many different flowers on a daily basis.
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Undergraduate Research Scholars
Undergraduate Research Scholars are engaging in research all over the TTU-TTUHSC campuses, working with faculty mentors who want to make a difference. And help our Honors students make a difference as well.
Must be a member of the Honors College to apply to the URS program
Thank you for your interest in URS application !
Unfortunately, the application deadline has passed. Applications for Fall 2020 will open in March.
- Prospective Scholars must be enrolled and in good standing with the Honors College.
- Students are expected to find a faculty mentor with whom to perform research. The URS coordinator is available for help in finding a mentor.
- Students from any discipline are eligible to apply to the URS program. Any full-time TTU or TTUHSC faculty member is eligible to be a mentor.
- Scholars and faculty mentor must be on the Lubbock campuses for both the fall and spring semesters.
- URS is a two-semester, or longer, commitment. The program begins in August and culminates in the spring with a mandatory presentation in the TTU Undergraduate Research Conference.
- Scholars earn an hourly stipend of $8.00 an hour, for no more than 10 hours a week.
- Scholars may elect to receive course credit in their home departments in lieu of payment.
- Scholars may NOT simultaneously receive course credit and URS funding for the same research.
- Worker's compensation is provided in the event of a job-related injury but Scholars are not eligible for paid vacation, sick leave or other University benefits such as health insurance.
- Scholars must submit accurate timesheets to meet payroll deadlines, A timesheet is a legal document and subject to audit. Timesheets must be submitted both online and to the URS coordinator.
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The Gaussmeter Model GM1-ST measures the field of even the strongest magnet (to 20kG) down to fine resolution (0.1G). Features rapid turn-on and fast update.
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The LNA 10 oscilloscope preamp will significantly improve the small-signal performance of oscilloscopes at frequencies below 1MHz.
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Laboratory gaussmeter that reads AC/DC magnetic fields, true peak field, has an alarm and optional USB datalogging. Maximum range is 30,000 gauss.
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Proclamation Zambia appointed Andrew Muwowo as their Director of Ministry in October 2016. He has overall responsibility for developing and delivering the vision of Proclamation Institute Zambia (PIZ).
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Prior to this appointment Andrew was the board chairperson of Proclamation Zambia (UK) while working as an Area Team Leader for Friends International.
From 2000 to 2001 Andrew studied for the Cornhill Training Course while on sabbatical. At that time he was pastor of Kitwe Chapel in Zambia. Andrew then came to settle in the UK in 2003. He is married to Phebby and together they have five grown children. Andrew is also serving as an elder at his local Church, Union Chapel Bethersden.
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I'm so glad that you have found a way to my travel blog. Let's not be strangers. My name is Kristiina, a 29-year-old female traveller, who lives in Finland.
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Boat Operator Accredited Training (BOAT)
Federal boat safety regulations require all boat operators to hold a Pleasure Craft Operator card (PCO card). The Boat Operator Accredited training program (B.O.A.T) is being offered around the country to help prevent water related accidents. This course is offered to help boaters understand the general rules, regulations and standards for operating a powerboat. After completing the course and passing the exam you will receive a PCO card. Boaters who are required to possess their PCO card are:
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Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Beta 1 is out
Also, I'd like to remind you that you can comment, criticize or just say whatever you want at the Lubuntu official Facebook page.
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Hmmm... I kind of like xscreensaver. Hope that at least it's kept in the repositories so i can use it. Also i won't use Firefox at all, sorry i'm a Chrome kind of guy (very faithful!). ;)I'm downloading now (sadly the torrent will take forever there's only one seed). Didn't knew about your blog but then again i'm using Lubuntu since July and loving it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 05, 2013 11:04 pm
That's the great thing of the *buntu family. Unlike Mac, you will be able to download your favourite apps or the whole desktop you want, even if they're not included by default. They let you choose.ReplyDelete
Chromium (not Chrome) and XScreensaver will be kept at the repos. So don't worry about that. Oh, and thanks. I'm glad to have a new reader :)
- AnonymousSeptember 06, 2013 7:16 pm
From my perspective Firefox is better than Chromium and i don't like and want Xscreensaver. Good move Lubuntu team!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 06, 2013 9:00 pm
Mine too (and I also found XScreensaver annoying, but this is personal). But we did because of the benchmarks. Now Firefox demonstrated higher speed and low resource huunger that Chromium. So yes, we did a good move ;)ReplyDelete
Thank you!
I'm totally convinced that you did nothing but good moves. As for Chromium I don't use it. I have the deb file of Google Chrome Beta and that's my browser of choice. I keep Firefox as a backup and Firefox is a very good browser (specially because you can configure it to use the Tor network) Unfortunately I had to uninstall Lubuntu 13.04 from my netbook after the latest updates which broke my Cairo dock (I had xcompmgr), froze the windows and other bugs. Then I've installed 12.04.3 with the same results ( this Beta crashed on the Live session). It's an old notebook Acer AOD260 (1.66 Ghz 1 Gb Ram) but I thought Lubuntu was made for these too (that processor even has OpenGL, Hyperthreading and processor scalling capabilities, yada) but so I had to move along because I need my netbook working. Lubuntu is still installed in my P4 3 Ghz/Nvidia desktop alongside Windows 7 and so far it's working well. When it stops working because of the next 13.10 or whatever, then it's a wonderful thing that we have hundreds of Linux distros out there. You all have a wonderful Linux day!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 08, 2013 9:06 pm
Maybe it's not broken. Cairo-Dock uses Mono, so every upgrade will terminate (in bad ways) any Mono running task. But I'd like to suggest you using Plank.ReplyDelete
You can add the PPA "elementary-os/daily" where Plank is, and "ppa:versable/elementary-update", and get the packages "elementary-plank-themes" and "elementary-tweaks" for changing them.
Plank has not the parabolic zoom effect, but it's compatible with some Unity features and works fine with XCompMgr (see the article in this blog to hide wrong shadows).
Thanks, buddy!
Many thanks for your reply. I didn't knew about this problem with Mono. So i'll add the PPA and the packages that you talk about to see if Plank works better (anyway Cairo is unusable as is). I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 on that netbook but sadly the login screen is now the wallpaper... yeah it froze yesterday (although you can still work with it, i don't like having that screen as "wallpaper" and scanning the web i was aware that many users are experiencing problems with their Intel graphics and, on top of that, Intel said that won't support the Mir display server but will go for Wayland instead. (you can check this new on linux.softpedia.com) So no Ubuntu for me as it is. Will try your solution and get back here later after testing. I really like Lubuntu so would like to have it working on that damn netbook! Thanks a million for your precious help buddy! Keep being awesome.ReplyDelete
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Plank is useless. No compositing, no options to configure. I like Cairo because of that. Tried elementary 0.2 live-usb and the damn desktop is dead (totally) you can't configure Plank also but i know the options are hidden and you need dConf but that's not an option to attract new Windows XP users... if it's too difficult they don't want it, so i went for Zorin 7 which has a dock that works although to add launchers you need to know where your files are... anyway i would like that Cairo could solve the bugs with the latest Ubuntu core and be back again because after trying everything else it's the only dock i like. I will test Pear OS 8 Beta 2 tonight and will drop you a line here. If you get tired of me commenting here just say so. I know that i can be annoying when it comes to computers... It's something i love but i understand that other people may not be as enthusiastic as i am ;) Anyway i'm gonna come to your blog a lot since my desktop install of Lubuntu works without bugs (Cairo works fine), having the Nvidia graphics instead of my netbook's Intel GMA 3150 and i'm gonna need advice when the 13.10 release comes out next month. You rock my friend! Best regards, KafReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 11, 2013 8:53 pm
BTW, I told you bad information, my bad. Cairo Dock does NOT use Mono, it's Docky. Anyway, the compositing you mentioned can be real (using a Composite manager) or simulated.ReplyDelete
I encourage you to use Compton, not XCompMgr (intructions here, at Tips'n'Tricks).
I'm glad you keep with Lubuntu ;)
Yes i got xcompmgr and then made it to autostart by adding @xcompmgr -n to the startup file. This works fine with Nvidia graphics but with Intel graphics doen's work anymore after some Ubuntu update. You're the second person in a blog that says i should use Compton instead (dasublogbyprashanth.blogspot.com) so i'll follow your tips & tricks tutorial and see if i can make that work in my netbook. Thanks a lot for your help.


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