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It's impossible to place Trent Harmon neatly into a box, and that's what makes him magic. Harmon's new album You Got 'Em All, released May 18, is an eclectic combination of country, soul, pop and jazzy blues that creates an earful of delightful sounds. Combined with Harmon's signature strong-but-reedy voice and the emotional, heartfelt lyrics, this album provides a hit for every kind of audience.
The title track (read our review of it here) leads the album off on a sentimental note, with its airy but poignant single piano key strike.
"Her" serves as the emotional rollercoaster track of the album, starting out slow and moody with woozy keys that immediately set a 70s-soul tone. By the end, it's a full-on jam, and chances are he'll kick it up ten notches for a live performance. He laments a lost love, saying that even if a new girl is fine and sweet, she'll never be "her." Between the vocals and the jazzy, poppy vibes, this song would be a good pick for Justin Timberlake fans.
"First Five Minutes" is a super-fun, upbeat summer anthem with radio-friendly beats. The only downside to this song is that it's only 2:46, so it's cut a bit short. Key lyrics: "I could've told you I loved you and I would've meant it in the first five minutes."
Trent's vocal talent especially soars on songs like "Chandelier," "Hold On," and "On Paper" – the latter of which is classic Harmon. It's upbeat and poppy, and has a great message: "You can't live on paper, can't love on paper, can't sum up the two of us on paper, don't make sense on paper, stories end on paper, so how 'bout we take that piece of paper and set it on fire?" Harmon's voice really shines best in this song, especially against the backdrop of a clear ringing acoustic guitar and picky banjo.
"Falling" provides an unexpected twist in the album – it's a flirty, sultry song that will likely be an album favorite. The addition of a brass section adds an intriguing layer and branches into new territory for Harmon.
You Got 'Em All plays through like a long love letter, but replaces sappiness with true heart and authenticity. The overall feeling is sweet, upbeat and encouraging, and Harmon has a way of singing that makes you feel like he's singing just to you. Influences of artists like Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake are evident while he keeps some roots in country. Harmon flexes his creative muscles and tries out new sounds with You Got 'Em All, but remains true to the things he does best.


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Coinbase App Downloads Drop, Crypto Hype Fading Quick
The bear market for Bitcoin (BTC) and all other cryptocurrency has dragged down Coinbase, the US's most popular cryptocurrency exchange. Prices continue to plunge moving into Q3 of 2018, and the exchange's download ranking for its Coinbase app has suffered because of this.
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The Coinbase app has fallen to the download level it experienced in April of last year. In December, Coinbase soared to the very top of the US finance apps, in terms of downloads, as Bitcoin (BTC) hit its all-time record high. Since then, Bitcoin has lost around two-thirds of its value. …
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Holy Names student snags Schulich scholarship
Holy Names student snags Schulich scholarship
Math comes easy to Jack Wawrow and that's a good thing since he'll have to keep tally of the hefty $100,000 scholarship he earned to study space engineering at York University.
Wawrow became the first Holy Names' student and second student within the Windsor-Essex County District School Board to snag a prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship.
I've always wanted to do something in the space field
Catholic Central's Jomanah Chahrour received an $80,000 Schulich award last year for her plans to pursue a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) program. Chahrour planned to study astrophysics at McMaster University.
The Schulich Leaders program awards 50 scholarships annually in Canada, 25 at $100,000 each for those pursuing engineering and 25 at $80,000 each for those pursuing a STEM program.
According to the scholarship website, 350,000 teenagers graduate high school in Canada each year and of those, 1,400 were allowed to apply for a Schulich scholarship this year.
Philanthropist Seymour Schulich established a $100 million scholarship fund in 2012 "to encourage our best and brightest students to become the next pioneers of global scientific research and innovation."
Wawrow hopes to be one of those pioneers "designing rockets or satellites 10 years from now."
Of the Grade 12 courses he took this year, Wawrow finished with a 96 per cent average. He accumulated almost 140 hours of community service during his four years at Holy Names and he held lead positions on the school's robotics team.
"I've always wanted to do something in the space field," the 17-year-old said. "Robotics is the main thing that solidified engineering for me."
Each year, Lisa Polidori sifts through her list of high achievers as the head of guidance at Holy Names, looking for potential scholarship applicants.
"And each year I always get a plaque that says thank you to our nominee," Polidori said. "We've never had a winner until now. They're all great kids, the competition is just ridiculous."
Polidori says Wawrow is "a well-rounded student" with a high level of maturity.
"It can't just be about marks, I'm guessing his level of maturity must have shined through in his essay and in the other questions they asked," she said.
Each summer, Wawrow has looked for an educational opportunity to explore. There was an engineering program at Michigan Tech and last year he spent a month at Memorial University in Newfoundland in a summer enrichment program known as SHAD.
He along with 55 other students from across Canada took in lectures, workshops, field trips and had to solve a real-world problem. His team worked on reducing the country's energy footprint.
Wawrow always had the space engineering program at York in mind after high school.
"Winning this award takes the entire financial burden off of me now," he said.
Thirteen other students from across Essex County were among the 1,400 nominees. All 2018 nominees can be found at schulichleaders.com.


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I park above the band's rehearsal space, feeling unusually fantastic. Generally by the time I pull up outside the dank, cramped room beneath Euston Road I am ready to pass out after a(nother) restless night, a full day teaching, and the emancipatory drive from the burbs to the centre of London. Last time the band met to practise, I fell asleep in the car for 45 minutes the second I'd turned off the engine. Tonight, though, I am buoyed by the week's work – I have been preparing for tonight's session and the upcoming album launch gig that we have in two weeks' time, with renewed enthusiasm. I brought extra bags, even after consolidating. I cheerfully make two heavily-laden trips down the stairs to the stinky, humid chamber, a spring in my step. It's been a marvellous week so far, and I'm encouraged by the fact it's Thursday so there's precious little time left for the positive trend to alter significantly before the weekend. As I left the house almost an hour earlier, it seemed that the baby might be about to demonstrate her commitment to a new vomiting bug – her second in as many week – so I am glad to be underground for a few hours with no mobile phone reception; not that I don't want to be able to help, and to mop up a good deal more vom today, but to rehearse with no distractions like this is a luxury I loathe to contrive, so separation being forced on me is welcome. I put my phone on Airplane (Apple means "aeroplane") Mode, so that I cannot receive a distressed SMS about our ailing child and then have to face the mutual frustration and anguish of not being able to reply to a message that my wife has seen I've received.
I take half an hour to set up – there's a lot to plug in, especially for a luddite tub thumper who has so doggedly and deliberately pursued a career playing a gloriously cumbersome but feedback-free and bug-averse acoustic instrument. But I am chatty and excited, although confused by the passive DI box not also directly outputting (kind of the only reason I brought it with me) the sounds of my trigger pads. I am also enlivened by my new noise-cancelling headphones. My previous set of cans, that I have used for three-and-half years, always made me hot, sticky, and generally feel pretty oppressed. They squeezed my head, pushing my glasses painfully against my ears and skull, and giving me headaches. I really have no idea why I sought no alternatives in the whole time I had them before they broke. The new set – Metrophones Studio Kans – feel like someone is cuddling my head and playing sweet music (albeit an abrasive cowbell click track) into my caressed, contented ears. They more generously accommodate my shell-likes, and have gel padding that works beautifully to preclude the need for the vice-like pressure of the old phones. I am completely ready to play darkly assertive electro swing pop noir.
The rehearsal is probably our best to date. I drum well, and the effect is clear on the others, who are all grins. At the last rehearsal I managed to fuck up a song we'd played thirty times in succession for a video recording two days before, and the bassist rightly got pretty annoyed. Tonight, though, I am on a roll – musical, dynamic, effortlessly in time with the click, and loving the process. In the zone! Hugh thinks this is all on account of the new headphones, which I'd let him try on because I was evangelising about them. A few cool things have happened this week, though.
On Tuesday I wrote the proposal for a research project that's been brewing for a year, and then turned the proposal into a blog article that I submitted to a colleague's semi-cool website about music and academia. I finished another blog post, about ups and downs of life in London. I finished the review of the Mr Big gig from the previous Friday at Koko, and sent that to the editor of the drum magazine who commissioned it. I conducted a handful of interviews for a book chapter I'm writing. On Wednesday I sorted out the complications around maybe popping to Malaysia in the middle of the panto run at Christmas and meeting simultaneous contractual obligations in two other cities. I obtained consent from the band members and producer on the panto to conduct some ethnographic research during the production. I finished a bunch of admin for the Moodle at my college, and planned a day's teaching. I went running. I worked out. I put new laces in my shoes. I did the washing up, two piles of laundry, and took the week's mugs and wine glasses out of my office. I caught up with correspondence for a book I'm co-editing with a colleague. I received (and promptly tweeted about) the news that another book I've been planning for ten months was accepted by the publisher. I finally got around to testing, trouble-shooting and re-booting the live setup I use with Sweet Tooth. I bought new cables, DI boxes, and a mixer. I tested, recorded, emailed and discussed different drum and sample sounds vaguely imitating Native American Indian instruments. I bought a djembe stand. I purchased ear defenders for my daughter, an analogue synth, and a ticket to the London Drum Show.
Today was positive too – I taught research seminars half the day, and was on top of my admin by mid-afternoon. I got a "very good" (one down from "outstanding") overall in my annual performance appraisal, which is decent enough since I am probably misconstrued in my place of work and trying desperately to leave there anyway. All this, plus the bottle of 2012 Pillastro I opened last night to help calm me down was especially robust and fruity. Can it only be downhill from here?


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Ever Wondered What It's Like Being Polyamorous? Ask These People
Would you try this type of relationship?
Have you ever considered a polyamorous relationship?
People might stray away from the idea for religious reasons, or as a matter of personal preference. Maybe sometimes they just don't really understand what polyamory means or involves.
Well, for those interested in learning about this type of "untraditional" relationship, let's start with the definition:
Those who practice polyamory are adamant about differentiating themselves from cheaters or polygamists, because polyamory is not about betrayal or religion.
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Plate XXXVII: Ornithorhynchus anatinus "Male markedly larger than female; fur of two kinds, the longer crisp, shining, and sometimes curly and the under-fur short, soft and woolly. Length of head and body of male about 18 inches; of tail 6 inches; the head and body of the female being about 4, and the tail 2 inches shorter. It will be generally found in the description of the Duck-bill, Duck-Mole, or Water-Mole, as the animal is indifferently called, that the covering of the beak is stated to be of a horny or leathery nature....However, that is not the case with the living animal, in which the muzzle is covered with a soft skin, comparable to that investing the nose of a Dog, and richly supplied with tactile nerves. Distribution.- Queensland to the south of latitude 18 deg., New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. History and habits.- The Duck-Bill was originally described under the name Platypus anitinus, which was Anglicised into Duck-billed Platypus, but since the generic name had been previously employed for another group of animals, it had, by the rules of zoological nomenclature, to give place to the later Ornithorhynchus."


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Despite thousands of articles being published every day, it always seems difficult to get your article published. Co-authors bicker. Journals seem to be picky, and peer-reviewers…well, peer-reviewers just seem to be out to get you. (I know. I'm one of them.) Now, there are dozens of guides that offer advice on how to be more successful at publishing. Here, I am going to talk about a new publication guide that just came out. How is this one different? Because I'm going to summarize the whole thing for you.
(Note: There is a conflict of interest here. I'm an author on a few of the chapters in this guide. Sadly, I don't receive any royalties. Just your admiration.)
Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide to the Perplexed was published online a few weeks ago. I'll go over the major themes of the book shortly, but first, I want to point on two huge benefits of this book. First, it's free! Yup, free. Yes, for those that want a paper version, a print copy can be purchased through Amazon, but I won't even link to the page because it is unnecessary. Download the entire edition by clicking HERE. Second, despite its title, the lessons of this book are entirely generic. Every field is not identical and the requirements for publication may differ, but the process of publication is largely identical across disciplines, with the exception of physics and mathematics who often publish non-peer reviewed articles on arXiv.com, but even they are required to publish in peer-reviewed journals eventually.
Now, on to those themes. Well, more like lessons really, which can be succinctly summarized as plan, discuss, and be wary.
It has taken months, if not years, but you have finally completed your study. The last subject was enrolled, the data has been collected and cleaned, and you are able to answer your research question. Because you think your study is important and will make a valuable contribution to society, you decide to have it published in a peer-reviewed journal, which is an excellent decision by the way. Once you have made this decision, the best way forward is to plan out the entire process ahead of time. Before the paper is outlined, before the first word hits the page, ideally before the analysis is even completed, plan.
First, you need to determine where you are going to submit the manuscript. For better or worse, I take a two-step, hope for the best/prepare for the worse, approach. I search for a journal that I consider a "reach" journal. A reach journal is a peer-reviewed journal that has a high impact factor and is considered one of the pre-eminent journals in your field. Since I often conduct public health or addiction research, the American Journal of Public Health or Addiction may be reach journals for me. JAMA or the New England Journal of Medicine may be reach journals for someone else. I don't expect the paper to be accepted by the reach journal, but it is worth the extra effort if publication does occur. After selecting a reach journal, I always have a back-up. Or 2 back-ups because I know the risk of rejection is almost absolute. A back-up journal doesn't mean some unknown journal that isn't indexed anywhere or an open-access journal that doesn't even qualify as peer-reviewed. A back-up journal simply means a well-known, second-tier journal that doesn't have quite the aura of the reach journals.
Selecting the right journal, especially when you are new to publishing, takes time and effort. Journals should be researched regarding what topics they have published in the past and what topics they publish now. Rejection rates, if known, and impact factors, should be consulted as well but not taken as rules. Selecting your journal early allows you to plan how to write the manuscript. Each journal has a unique way of organizing and presenting research articles. Some journals require certain tenses to be used (e.g. present v. past) and certain person-voices to be used (e.g. 1st v. 3rd person). Others focus on the use of active or passive voice, and I can rant for hours about the differences in reference formatting. Knowing this information allows you to plan how you will write your article.
Before you write though, you need to identify who your co-authors are, if any. Who contributed to the project? Who can be counted on to contribute to actually writing the manuscript? Who will be responsible for what parts of the manuscript? These are only some of the questions to consider when deciding on the authorship list.
Hand-in-hand with planning is discussion. The most important discussion you need to have is with your co-authors because the first task after deciding on where to publish is who should be included as a co-author on the paper. Deciding on co-authorship is a classic "easier said than done" issue. It seems really straightforward. Whoever worked on the project should be included as a co-author. But does that include the research assistants who collected the data but may not have the training to integrate the results into a cohesive argument? Does it include the investigator who obtained the funding to conduct the study even if they had no part in the planning, analysis, or writing of the paper? Did anyone who was thought to be a co-author simply not do enough work to merit inclusion?
These can be tricky questions to answer and require open discussion between all parties to avoid awkward, and potentially, angry confrontations. As lead author, it may also require making tough decisions. I was talking with a junior investigator for a very large international research project about publications a few years ago. Hundreds of papers have been produced from this project, and she was working under the supervision of the overall principle investigator. She followed the project's protocol for retrieving data and proceeded to conduct a unique analysis of the data and write a manuscript meant for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Her and her fellow co-authors had reviewed the draft and were ready to submit to a journal; however, her supervisor, the overall PI of this massive international research project, never got back to her. There was no indication he had made any edits to the paper or was even reviewing the paper. So, she took the PI's name off the authorship list and submitted the paper without him. Even if a research is one of the greats in the field, they do not deserve authorship credit unless they have actually contributed to the paper.
Be Wary
Finally, Publishing Addiction Science asks the reader to make a mental note of the funding source of articles that are read and to be wary of who funds an investigator's research. We tend to assume that research is unbiased. That a $1 million project funded by NIH will produce the same results if funded by an industry group if the same methods are employed. Sadly, that is not the case. For a not unsurprising reason, studies funded by for-profit industries typically produce results that are favorable to that industry. Studies funded by government or non-profit organizations typically produce results that are favorable to individual or population-wide health. These two notions, industry and health, are often at odds with each other.
A classic example of this is tobacco, and there are countless examples of the tobacco industry funding research studies that were deemed favorable to industry interests. But I'll highlight a more recent example. Energy drinks and alcohol do not go well together. People who drink alcohol mixed with energy drinks suffer from significantly higher levels of negative alcohol-related consequences compared to people who just drink alcohol. There are numerous articles and systematic reviews that support this position with the exception of articles funded by the alcohol or energy drinks industries. These studies, funded by for-profit interests, conclude that energy drinks have no effect on alcohol consumption or are even beneficial to the user!
Be wary. Be cautious. Be alert. If you are seeking funding, know who the funder is and what the expectations are. Research must be performed independent from interference of those who may not like some of the results, yet some funders require just the opposite.
The take home message: If you have decided to publish your research in a peer-reviewed journal, plan each step advance, facilitate open discussions with potential co-authors to determine authorship order and division of labor, and be wary of stipulations and requirements some funders may put on grants, fellowships, and other funding mechanisms. And if you don't believe me, read PAS. It will literally cost you nothing.


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Maximuscle Promax Lean Bar Review
Each Maximuscle Promax Lean Bar contains 206 calories and contains a superb 2000mg of L-Carnitine per bar along with green tea, caffeine, 23g of protein, high fibre to keep hunger at bay. This bar has a very good nutritional breakdown for a post workout meal. Low fats and 10g sugar.
Nutritional Breakdown
- Total Calories: 206
- Protein: 23g
- Total Carbohydrates: 18.8g
- -Sugars: 10.9g
- Fat: 4.6g
- -Saturates: 2.1g
- Fibre: 4g
- Sodium: 0.1g
- Vitamin B5: 9.1mg
- L-Carnitine: 2g
- Caffeine: 127mg
- Green Tea Extract: 25mg
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Steamed tilapia with green chilli & coconut chutney
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal418
- fat15g
- saturates10g
- carbs42g
- sugars2g
- fibre2g
- protein32g
- salt0.28g
- 100g basmati rice
- 2 large tilapia fillets
- 2 tsp butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 150g pot fat-free yogurt, to serve
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- 2 small naan bread, to serve
For the chutney
- handful coriander, roughly chopped
- ½ green chilli, deseeded
- 25g desiccated coconut
- 1 lemon ½ juiced, ½ cut into wedges
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- 1 tsp chopped ginger
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- ½ tsp ground cumin
To make the chutney, put the coriander, chilli, coconut, lemon juice, ginger and cumin in a food processor. Add good pinches of salt and sugar, then pulse until it has a rough salsa-like consistency.
Rinse the rice and place in a deep frying pan with 225ml water. Bring to the boil, then turn down low – it will take about 8 mins to cook.
After about 3 mins, place the fish fillets on top of the rice, then dot a tsp of butter on each and spread the fresh chutney over in a thick layer. Cover with a lid and cook over a low heat for about 5 mins until the fish and rice are cooked through.
Serve the fish and rice with the yogurt, warmed naan breads and the lemon wedges.


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LAS VEGAS — Organizers of the upcoming Agent Summit have announced that Tom O'Neil, founder of O'Neil Financial Services Agency Inc., has agreed to present a session dedicated to "Competitive Targets" at this year's event, which will be held May 20–23 at the Venetian & Palazzo Resort Hotel Casinos in Las Vegas.
Inspired by O'Neil's 30 years' experience fighting for auto dealer F&I business, the content is designed to help attendees identify competitive targets in every facet of agency business — from product providers to manufacturers and finance partners — including how to get paid on competitors' F&I products.
In a highly competitive market, if agents aren't paranoid, "you ought to be," O'Neil said. "I know that each day will bring another round of emails, phone calls and questions about some angle my competitors are using to knock on my client's door. This session is dedicated to making you more confident, more prepared, and more motivated to keep fighting the good fight — and winning!"
O'Neil's presentation will begin at 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22, part of an afternoon schedule that also includes sessions dedicated to F&I coaching and recruitment and retention.
"Without a doubt, the messaging contained in this announcement is so provocative that flames should be shooting out of your monitor right now!" said Randy Crisorio, president and CEO of United Development Systems (UDS) and chair of the Agent Summit advisory board. "Tom O'Neil is an authentic and enthusiastic F&I industry statesman that presents with tremendous conviction. We anticipate a 'standing room-only' crowd for this session. It will deliver all that you might expect and a lot more. Come feel the energy and grab the ideas that can make your revenue soar."


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The Minimum Wage Debate: Tripped Up on Small Business
"The restaurant industry is dominated by small businesses," National Restaurant Association member Melvin Sickler said when he testified before Congress in March. "More than seven in 10 eating and drinking establishments are single-unit operations." Sickler, who owns several Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Cinnabon franchises, was testifying before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in regard to a proposed piece of legislation that would have increased the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour.
The minimum wage issue has moved back into the spotlight recently, arguably thrust there in February, when President Obama advocated raising the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour and indexing it to inflation in his State of the Union address.
"Even with the tax relief we put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line," Obama said. "That's wrong."
Continuing, he said: "This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families. It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank; rent or eviction; scraping by or finally getting ahead. For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets."
While the president paints a rosy picture of a U.S. economy made healthier by a higher minimum wage, his position is hotly contested by business owners, members of the GOP, and the National Restaurant Association. Critics of the increased minimum wage argue that such a move would actually have a net negative impact on the economy because many minimum wage employers — like those in the restaurant business — operate on thin margins. Increasing the minimum wage would therefore force layoffs and salary reductions, curb business growth, and possibly lead to higher prices for consumers, critics argue.
"Food and labor costs are the two most significant line items for a restaurant," Sickler said. "With average pre-tax margins of roughly 4 to 6 percent, increases in food and labor costs can have a dramatic impact on a restaurant's bottom line. Only a small minority of restaurants will be able to handle a 39 percent minimum wage increase without taking actions that will harm workers."
But that small minority of restaurants would include the largest employers, such as McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM), and Wendy's (NYSE:WEN). Outside the restaurant industry, other major minimum-wage employers that could arguably absorb the cost of a wage increase include Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT).
In May, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report titled "The Low-Wage Drag on our Economy: Wal-Mart's low wages and their effect on taxpayers and economic growth." The report's thesis is spelled out in the title, and it's important to note that the report was prepared by the Democratic staff of the committee. The detail, stamped on the report's cover, bears some significance because of the fairly clear divide on minimum- and low-wage policy between the two major parties.
Demos, a research and policy center focused on economic stability, defines low-wage work as "a job paying $12 an hour or less, equivalent to an annual income of about $24,000 for a full-time worker. Nationwide, a family of four trying to subsist on $24,000 a year hovers near the poverty level. Even a single worker with no dependents would find no room in a basic budget for health coverage, a retirement nest egg, or building emergency savings."
Using this definition, employment figures from a National Employment Law Project report, and estimates of the share of low-wage workers at each business, Demos calculated that McDonald's and Wal-Mart employ a combined 1.48 million people at a wage too low to support a family, afford health care, or save for retirement. Demos places the companies in a bucket of corporations "aiming for the highest possible profit at the lowest possible cost."
The National Employment Law Project showed that while low-wage occupations accounted for 21 percent of recession-era job losses, they accounted for 58 percent of recovery job gains. And while mid-wage occupations accounted for 60 percent of recession losses, they accounted for just 22 percent of recovery growth.
Don't Miss: President Obama's Speech at Amazon.


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Designing Your E-Commerce Site to Your Target Audience
E-commerce is now the way that companies by and large do business. It is believed that the size of e-commerce will reach $4 trillion a year by 2020. If you're not selling your products or services online, you will likely be left in the dust by your competition.
How to launch a successful e-commerce site
However, launching a successful e-commerce site isn't exactly easy. If you aren't careful, you could make significant mistakes resulting in your product never reaching its intended target audience.
With that in mind, below are some strategies and tips you can use to design your e-commerce site in a way that it does reach the consumers you are targeting.
You May Also Like: How to make sense of China's e-commerce growth
Define Your Target Audience
Before you launch strategies to reach your target audience, you first need to determine exactly who that target audience is. This is very important. If you choose the wrong target demographic, your product may fail to catch on.
This requires significant market research. You must determine people of what age, ethnic background, income level and more could be interested in your product.
The answers may surprise you. You may discover seniors, for example, are more interested in the product you designed with teens in mind. This knowledge will help guide your web design, SEO, and marketing.
Effective Ad Placement
One of the most effective tools for reaching a target audience is through the use of online advertisements.
However, how those ads are placed on the net will determine their overall impact. If you choose a more direct advertising strategy where you create relationships with specific websites, make sure it's with websites that draw in visitors that are in your target market.
Make sure that your ads send potential customers to a relevant landing page. For example, the vaping company Halocigs uses certain ads to route users the halo cigs vape starter kit page, while other ads lead the user to the homepage.
You can create relevant landing pages based on keyword research. If you're using an ad placement service based on keywords like Google AdSense, make sure the keywords chosen are the ones that are most relevant to your target audience.
Leverage Social Media
The number one way people now interact with the internet is through the use of social media. Facebook has nearly 1.8 billion active users each month. If you want to reach a certain market with your e-commerce website, implementing social media is key.
It can help you to quickly build an entire network of users that you can then use to do things like instantly market new promotions and obtain product feedback. Best of all, signing up and using social media accounts for business purposes can be done for free.
Implement an SEO Strategy
Search engine optimization is also crucial to marketing an e-commerce website. Without proper SEO, internet users will find the websites of competitors. Your website, on the other hand, may be buried on page nine of a Google search to never be found by consumers.
Do some research to determine what keywords your target audience uses to find websites in your product category. Center your SEO on those keywords. Also, make sure your SEO is done professionally. If you are too amateurish about it, you may make big mistakes.
Big mistakes with SEO can lead to your site being punished by Google and Bing and being delisted from their search results entirely.
Provide Quality Content
One of the best ways to reach a specific market is to provide content that target audience can enjoy that informs them of the products you sell.
For example, if you sell computer parts, running a blog about tech topics can help direct customers to your e-commerce website.
However, the content should be high quality. If it comes off as spammy or too much like an ad, most internet users won't even bother with it. Instead, provide articles, videos, games or whatever else that can stand on their own and provide value to users.
Without a market, you can't sell a product. Finding a market niche and then successfully marketing products to those consumers isn't always easy. However, you must make the effort if you want your e-commerce website to be successful.
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THE future looks bleak for Premier Division sides Henley-in-Arden and Tanworth-in-Arden as both sides have failed to record a single win so far this season.
Tomorrow in the John Shepherd Cotswold Hills league Henley have a daunting trip to second-place Bretforton who have only lost two out ten games so far.
Last week they were trounced by league leaders Exhall & Wixford after been reduced for an abysmal 33.
Tanworth-in-Arden host mid-table Overbury and will be low on confidence after missing the chance to claim a win last week at Wellesbourne.
The hosts were dismissed for 160 which left Tanworth-in-Arden with half a chance but they could only find 115 runs in reply.
Earlswood pulled off a major shock by beating high-flying Kineton on their own patch last week and entertain Shipston-on-Stour tomorrow.
The hosts hammered 166-9 but Earlswood hit back with 114-3 to claim a seven-wicket victory.
In the First Division Catherine-de-Barnes suffered a second successive loss but managed to maintain their position at the top of the table on batting and bowling points scored.
Carl Lewis (37) and ever-green James Mason (40) were the only batsmen to show any resistance but their total of 118 was not enough as Alcester & Ragley claimed a one-wicket win.
Second Division leaders Rowington are preparing themselves for a mouth-watering away tie with second-placed Chipping
Last week they managed to tighten their grip on the title with a six-wicket win away at Ashorne.
Andy Shaw (3-15) was the pick of the bowlers as the hosts were dismissed for 95.
Rowington comfortably reached their target, and lost only four wickets in the process with Eike Gilbert top-scoring on an unbeaten 34.
Dorridge & Hockley Heath's Fourth Division tie with Harvington was abandoned half way through as the rain continued to pour down at a wet Anchor Lane.
The visitors had posted a solid 251-7 but the match was ended with Harvington on 106-2.
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I've read lots of reports on how bicycling is a highly recommended exercise for people with fibromyalgia. I've been looking for more resources, but have yet to find a comprehensive book on bicycling and fibromyalgia. (Let me know if you find one!)
However, I did find two blogs of interest. One is of a woman, Paula Werme, who attempted a ride across the United States. (She knew when her limits were – AND she made 3,360 miles. Impressive progress). Her site is rather "old school," so you have to scroll down to read newer entries.
Some interesting points:
All of the above said, the biking is getting better. We're averaging more miles per day, although the totals are creeping up slowly. We didn't have ANY 45 day miles at the beginning, and now I can do one that includes a major climb. We've done 60, but it was tough. Coming into Missoula was the first day we've had on the trip with the prevailing winds, the terrain, and the weather all in our favor, and we sailed into town with an average speed well above our other days – over 11 mph. Compared to our first few days where the averages were 5 – 6 mph getting used to the hills, that's pretty good.
Dateline, August 11. Still in Missoula, after a car trip 600+ round trip miles to Yellowstone. We head out tomorrow for Great Falls, where Ric and Hannah leave and I continue on by myself.
It doesn't take a whole lot of miles in a car to remember that you have Fibromyalgia! I was a bit creaky on the trip, and still am somewhat, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that walking around Yellowstone was much easier now that I've got some leg muscles – so it does pay to exercise….
I get the idea that if I can get comfortable on a seat, I can easily pick up 10 miles a day just from that! The wheat free/dairy free diet is simply not working – can't consistently get supplies, and my appetite has been for a fair amount of food – also I'm sick to death of hash browns.
Paula Werme's story has some very interesting insights into bike seats, in fact. I have a feeling that's something I'm really going to have to look into.
Another interesting blog is by a woman with fibromyalgia who does triathalons. I haven't read all of her entries, but you can check them out for yourself on the Living *WELL* with Fibromyalgia blog (aka "tri beyond limits").
Has anyone else explored bicycling with fibromyalgia? I'd love to hear about your experiences, or any resources you may have found.
It so often seems that the key to Fibromyalgia is balance: balance in eating, in finding the right amount of quality sleep, and perhaps most importantly finding a balance in movement. This has been documented in numerous studies and several blog posts I've written.
We know exercise is good for us. The media likes to remind us all the time, and people as influential as First Lady Michelle Obama are putting healthy movement (and healthy eating) at the forefront.
I find that one of the trickiest parts for me is finding the right amount and intensity of exercise. Under-doing exercise leads to weakened muscles, increased pain, and even poor mood. Over-doing exercise often leads to pain flares.
One has to gradually work up to doing greater and greater amounts of exercise. This is true of anyone trying a new exercise routine. If an able-bodied person tries lifting 50 lb weights with no previous experience, they're going to hurt themselves. When I've done very mild weight lifting, my physical therapist has started me off with no weights or even soup cans (a handy 1 lb. h ousehold weight).
The problem is that I want to do things. I was so excited and proud last week because I was wearing my pedometer and I walked almost 10,000 steps – the golden number that everyone says one should aim for. My steps generally vary from 2,000 (on very sedentary days) to 7,500 (on very active days). So this was a Big Deal. (Tip for anyone trying to increase their steps while using a pedometer: lose something. You will walk around a lot trying to find it. Also, go shopping. There's a lot of walking involved and you hardly notice it.)
Anyway, midway through the day I decided I'd do a little work in the garden. I have some table-top container gardening that I can do that doesn't over-stretch my back. Did I work on those? Noooo, I decided to re-pot some (terribly potbound) things on the ground. I wasn't super-careful about how I was lifting things.
The following day was pain. Lots and lots of pain.
It would be easy to let experiences like these scare me off from exercising. Exercise is pain, right? Well, no – too much exercise is pain. Somewhere out there is a magic amount of exercise that is "just right," a la Goldilocks and the Three Bears. To make it more interesting, the number moves based on how I'm feeling on a particular day and how much exercise I've been doing lately.
I know I'm going to make mistakes and overdo it sometimes. There are just days when I seize the moment, and the moment happens to be a little too much. I know there are going to be days when I can't seem to motivate myself to move out of bed, much less exercise. I can have compassion for myself on these days instead of beating myself up over what I "should" have done.
In between the paradox of too much and too little, I walk.
Hopefully for 10,000 steps.
People always talk about finding positive coping mechanisms, and I always find they're hardest to remember when you're not feeling well. It's helpful to have some sort of plan, as discussed in one of Health Skills' blog entries on coping strategies.
Perhaps you could say this post is more for my own reference, but here are a few "healthy" coping mechnanisms that I try to keep in my knapsack:
- Going for a walk
- Go swimming
- Creating something – a physical craft, a work of writing, a batch of vegan cookies…you name it
- Petting my dog. He can always use more belly rubs.
- Sitting in the garden or some other place outside
- Light gardening
- Reading one of my "comfort books" (Pride and Prejudice springs to mind)
- Meditating
- Stretching/doing yoga
- Making a point of eating breakfast and other healthy foods
- Buying a bouquet of cut flowers, especially if it's winter and there are none in the garden
- Planning potential vacations for when I feel better (even if I never actually go, the thought of going to the Caribbean always perks up my mood)
- Bird-watching
- Listening to music or a stand-up comedy tape
- Lighting a candle
- Talking to friends and others in my support system
Recently life was difficult because life circumstances made it very difficult to utilize a lot of my coping mechanisms. (It's hard to go for a walk when your foot hurts if you put any weight on it.) That's when it's hardest to use those healthy skills, rather than fall back on things like eating lots and lots of chocolate. It's still a work in progress for me. I'm hoping having a record of this will help with future flare-ups.
I spent some time outside in the 74 degree weather Thursday (that's roughly 23 celcius). It's amazing. The birds are out calling to each other, some chickadees are inspecting our bird house, we're cleaning up the garden after the big snowstorms.
It's amazing how much the weather affects my mood. It's just so wonderful to be outside.
I got my hands in the dirt today, as I worked a bit to clear some space for a new vegetable garden. Mostly I was putting old leaves in brown paper bags, and then spreading a bit of compost. I'm trying to work within my body's limits, but also stretch those boundaries a little bit. I have a feeling my arms may be feeling it tomorrow, even though I did some stretching. It's a constant quest for balance.
It's so nice to have something to focus on. It helps my mood – it gives me a purpose and something to work towards. Knowing that there may be a tasty payoff is an extra incentive. Planning the garden is fun, too (although it can be a little overwhelming). What I'm really looking forward to is when I can go, "Hmm, what shall we have for dinner?" and then saunter outside to grab some tomatoes and basil and maybe even some garlic and whip up a quick pasta dish. Mmm…
I suppose you could say that the garden has the potential to be a giant coping mechanism. I know it is for a lot of people. It lets me use my body, I get connected to the earth (both through cultivating it and through getting it all over my hands), it may reduce the number of trips I have to make to the grocery store, I get healthier food…not to mention being good for the environment. All in all, a win-win situation.
This post is the third in a three-part series on exercising with physical limitations.
If you went to public school in the United States in the past couple of decades (or had a child that did), you're probably familiar with the dreaded physical fitness tests administered every year. Gym teachers administer five fitness tests to determine each student's fitness level. In front of all their classmates. These tests include: "curl-ups or partial curl-ups, shuttle run, endurance run/walk ['The mile run'], pull-ups or right angle push-ups, and V-sit or sit and reach." The students who pass a certain number of tests get awards, and the others sigh in relief because another year has passed.
Those events were hellish for me, although possibly not for every child. I always had trouble with the pull-ups. Since my gym classes tended to be after lunch, the mile-long run/walk usually ended with me clutching my side while walking around the field as my classmates headed off to get drinks of water.
I am not here to talk about those tests.
The same President's Council on Fitness and Sports created some very helpful programs for adults. (Or maybe it's just better if you're an adult, it's voluntary, and you're not judged by a jury of your adolescent peers.)
These include the Presidential Champions* and Active Lifestyle programs.
The Active Lifestyle program is a really awesome program that I've participated in twice. I've found it really good motivation to continue exercising. Your goal: Exercise 30 minutes per day, 5 days per week, for 5 weeks. (You have 8 weeks total for the program, so if you end up missing a week it's okay.) "Exercise" can be anything outside your normal activity level – walking, doing housework, gardening, swimming, playing Nintendo Wii. It can be low-impact, ease-you-in kinds of exercise, or it can be high-endurance things like weight-lifting. They don't even have to be 30 consecutive minutes of exercise. Basically, the Active Lifestyle program encourages you to work at your level of fitness.
Many of the fitness resources I have state that keeping an exercise log helps motivate people to continue exercising. (I can't link them here, because they're books. Sorry for the lack of an immediate citation!) It's really satisfying to be able to look over your log and think, "Wow, when I began I could only walk for 10 minutes at a time. Now I'm walking to the park!" The program helped me increase my confidence in my ability to exercise. Even when I'm unable to exercise because of a circumstance outside my control (such as a stomach bug), I know that I can ease back into the program.
Oh, it's also nice to get a snazzy certificate at the end.
*In case you were wondering, the Presidential Champions program is a more challenging program, in that you input the kind of exercise and length of time you did it, and the program assigns a number of "points" to your total score. When you reach a certain number of points, you get the medal. There is no time limit, although they do limit the amount of points you can get in a day to encourage participants to exercise daily rather than in large bursts. (Yes, Sarah Palin was a recipient of the Gold Presidential Champions medal. That does not mean it's good or bad, and it did get some publicity about the program out there.)
This post is the second in a three-part series on exercising with physical limitations
Website, website, I've got your website right here! There's a great website about exercise and physical limitations, and it confirms a lot of what I said the other day.
It appears that muscle deconditioning occurs when people with FM neglect exercise in order to avoid pain. Deconditioned muscles use excess energy to accomplish tasks. This may contribute to more fatigue and make the muscles more susceptible to microtrauma, thus aggravating pain with only a low intensity of exertion. This cyclical process leads to atrophy (wasting) and greater effort performing various activities. Exercise can help to counteract this deconditioned state by improving oxygen delivery, increasing cellular metabolism, reducing muscle tightness, and eventually relieving pain to some degree. An important benefit during aerobic exercise is that muscle temperatures rise and this may possibly lead to greater relaxation.
This excerpt is from the National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD) website, which includes an entire section on Fibromyalgia. There's information on types of exercise, how/when to incorporate aerobic exercise/strength training/stretching, and references to books and journal articles.
The website also has sections on a number of other disabilities, ranging from "Acquired Brain Injury" to "Yoga for Individuals with Disabilities." A full list of conditions and their related sections can be found here.
NCPAD is funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and run by the University of Illinois.
Disclaimer: As with all things, consult with your medical provider or trained professional before starting a new exercise program.
This post is the first of a three-part series on exercising with physical limitations.
When I was first diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I froze. Everything hurt, and I was convinced that moving would hurt even more. (In the short term, it can.) I would "over exercise," and then end up hurting for several days. The less I exercised, the harder it became to do anything.
It didn't help that my view of exercise to that point was "something that you do to stay in shape but no one actually enjoys." In general, gyms seemed like giant fishbowls where people watched you torture yourself from the street. Gym clothes were utterly intimidating. Why would I want to do that?
I've found – with a lot of help and encouragement from professionals and some loved ones – that exercise can be fun and enjoyable. There are a wealth of reasons to exercise:
- Feeling able to exercise can boost confidence.
- Exercising is a great way of getting in touch with your body, which is essential if you're trying to get into the whole "mind-body" way of life.
- The more you exercise, the more you find you can do. It's an "upward spiral" rather than a "downward spiral."
- It can be fun to "discover" new things to do as exercise. I recently started swimming again, which is both fun and low impact.
- One day you will probably be showering and realize that you have new, sleek, firm muscles.
Notice that I'm not even getting into the weight-loss issue here. I've found that "exercising for weight loss" is the quickest way for me to lose interest. If I don't lose weight right away, then it's disappointing. However, if I'm exercising so that my body will feel better, then I'm likely to see immediate results.
The trick is to take baby steps, as with all things. If I were to try to go for a five mile run, I'd end up sore and swollen and tired and in bed for a few days.
When I first started exercising again after a long period of inactivity, I would go very gradually. Maybe I'd walk to the stop sign near my house and back (about 1 block total, if that). I'd gradually add more and more. It's the same with any exercises my physical therapist has given me.
Even now, I'm having to re-establish my exercise routine. There was a really bad cold snap, which tends to make walking outside challenging. I'm still trying to find a good "back up plan" for when the weather outside is frightful. Then I got a really bad stomach flu, and was too sick to exercise. Now it's back to exercising. The good thing is that since I've built up those muscles and health routines before, it won't take me as long to get back to where I was.
Any amount of movement is good. Slowly increasing your activity with something you enjoy is a step towards a healthier lifestyle.
Here are some sample ways to begin: walk, swim, bike, drum, do laundry, vacuum, stretch, canoe, sail, garden, hike, dance, build a table/bookshelf/etc., do yoga, shop, play fetch with your dog, spend any amount of time with a toddler…
Pick something that you enjoy. That is key.
Note: Check with your medical professional before beginning any exercise routine.


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Asian Style Pork Chop BakeFrom chefmeow 12 years ago
- 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce shopping list
- 1/2 cup orange juice shopping list
- 1/4 cup dry sherry shopping list
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger root shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic minced shopping list
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper to taste shopping list
- 1 dash ground allspice shopping list
- 6 thick pork chops shopping list
How to make it
- In a glass dish combine teriyaki sauce, orange juice, sherry, ginger root, garlic, pepper and allspice and mix well.
- Add pork chops to dish then cover and marinate in refrigerator for 6 hours turning occasionally.
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Remove chops and marinade from refrigerator.
- Remove cover and bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes.


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Raspberry Pi and Arch Linux – Install Nginx with PHP support
Any server should have its Web server ! 🙂 Aujourd'hui, We will install Nginx on our Arch Linux server !
Reminder : for those who want a comparison of different web servers, You can watch article here.
- Install the different packages
Pacman-s nginx php - fpm php - apc
- Create the directory /var/www
mkdir/var/www chown-r http:http/var/www
- Make a link to the logs (I have not found how to jump an error without making the link)
- Check the file /etc/php/PHP-fpm.conf pour changer/confirmer le user utilisé par le process et les droits sur le fichier socket
; Unix user/group of processes ; Note: The user is mandatory. If the group is not set, the default user's group ; will be used. user = http group = http
; Set permissions for unix socket, if one is used. In Linux, read/write
; permissions must be set in order to allow connections from a web server. Many
; BSD-derived systems allow connections regardless of permissions.
; Default Values: user and group are set as the running user
; mode is set to 0666
listen.owner = http
listen.Group = http
listen.mode = 0660
- Edit the file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
root /var/www; index index.php index.html index.htm; location ~ .php$ { fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/PHP-fpm/PHP-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME/var/www / $fastcgi_script_name; }
- Change the setting open_basedir in the file /etc/php/PHP.ini by adding the directory /var/www in the list
- Enable and start the servers
systemctl enable php - fpm systemctl enable nginx systemctl start systemctl start nginx php - fpm
- Create a file index.php in /var/www with the following content :
<?PHP phpinfo(); ?>
Check by going to the ip of the Raspberry that you have the picture below that appears. Details of the capture is not good, it comes from the Moebius distribution, but the principle remains the same.
For the CGI support, I crashes. I installed FastCGI Wrapper (fcgiwrap) but no way to start without an error 403 … I'll try manual compilation and you would like to know !


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The news out of Germany last week left a lot of people surprised — even shocked. Now the blogger Fr. John Boyle takes a closer look at what Canon law has to say on the subject:
It would seem to me that the burden of proof is with the ecclesiastical authorities to verify that one who has removed his/her name from the religious tax register has in fact notoriously abandoned the faith or formally defected from the Church or is by some other means in manifest grave sin.
I await with interest the comments of Dr. Edward Peters who is obviously studying the matter closely. The reported position of the German bishops is that
"This decree makes clear that one cannot partly leave the Church.It is not possible to separate the spiritual community of the Church from the institutional Church."This is obviously a fair point, but I think a lot rests on the motives for the removal of one's name from the tax register. I think it would be difficult to uphold the requirement of being on a tax register for being considered a member of the "institutional Church". But I'm sure the bishops have good Canon Lawyers involved in this and that the Vatican has guided them. We shall have to wait and see. I find it perplexing and would agree with one commentator that it sends the wrong signal.
You'll want to read it all, and the citations of Canon law that he uses.Meantime, Catholic News Service tells the German bishops' side of the story:
The German bishops' conference defended a controversial decree that said Catholics who stop paying a church membership tax cannot receive sacraments.
"There must be consequences for people who distance themselves from the church by a public act," said Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, conference president, in defending the Sept. 20 decree.
"Clearly, someone withdrawing from the church can no longer take advantage of the system like someone who remains a member," he said at a Sept. 24 news conference as the bishops began a four-day meeting in Fulda. "We are grateful Rome has given completely clear approval to our stance."
The archbishop said each departure was "painful for the church," adding that bishops feared many Catholics were unaware of the consequences and would be "open to other solutions."
"The Catholic church is committed to seeking out every lost person," said Archbishop Zollitsch, whose remarks were reported by Germany's Die Welt daily.
"At issue, however, is the credibility of the church's sacramental nature. One cannot be half a member or only partly a member. Either one belongs and commits, or one renounces this," Archbishop Zollitsch said.
UPDATE: Jimmy Akin is taking a long look at the German kerfuffle, and asks the question, "Are the German bishops just greedy?" You'll want to read his conclusion. Check it out.
Also, on Wednesday German courts sided with the Catholic Church:
Germany's top administrative court agreed with Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday that German believers who refuse to pay a special church tax could be shut out of Catholic worship.
The verdict, based on German corporate law, upheld the system by which the state collects religious taxes from registered Catholics, Protestants and Jews with their monthly returns and distributes them to the religious communities.


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