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EMBROIDERY – \em-broi'-de-re\ The act of sewing an image onto a fabric with needles and thread.
Before embroidery can take place, there are a few steps that must be completed.
First, your logo has to be created in some sort of art format. Once the custom logo is designed, the crisp image is ready to be digitized.
Digitizing simply means re-drawing your logo in stitches. This can sometimes be a difficult and time consuming task. The more detail there is in your logo, the tougher it may be to create in a stitches format.
Once it is digitized, the thread colors can be selected. After color selection is made, it is time to load your garment onto the machine. The graphic is then stitched to the apparel.
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Keith BrownAssociate ProfessorSaint Joseph's University
Keith Brown is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University. His research and teaching interests include fair trade, ethical consumption, globalization, culture, morality in markets, and ethnographic methods. He recently finished a book entitled Buying into Fair Trade: Culture, Morality and Consumption (NYU Press, 2013). The book examines what it means to be an ethical consumer, how individuals became a part of the fair trade movement, and how consumers make sense of the contradictions involved in the search for status while shopping for a cause. Buying into Fair Trade also discusses the limits and possibilities involved in trying to change the world through shopping.
Keith's research and writings have appeared in Sociological Forum, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, Social Forces, Contemporary Sociology, the Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and the Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. He has also been quoted in the New York Times and appeared multiple times on NPR to speak about fair trade and factory fires in Bangladesh.
At Saint Joseph's University, Keith is teaching Introduction to Sociology, Media and Popular Culture, Ethical Consumption, and a fair trade study tour course to Nicaragua. He also supervises the internship program within the Sociology and Criminal Justice department. He currently lives in Mt. Airy with his wife and daughters. ((https://www.sju.edu/about-sju/faculty-staff/dr-keith-brown)


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Louis Tomlinson has responded to the naming of the new Royal Baby, after it transpired that he's now got a rather regal namesake.
Following his birth on Monday, the Duke and Duchess today announced that their third child is named Louis Arthur Charles – prompting understandable excitement among One Direction fans.
Now, Tomlinson has responded himself – and he's offered to be an unlikely mentor to the Royal Tot.
"Young Louis welcome to the world. I'll take you under my wing lad. The Adidas tracksuit is in the post!", Tomlinson wrote on Twitter.
One fan responded: "Welcome to the world, Young Louis", alongside a mocked-up photo showing the singer alongside the royal couple.
welcome to the world, Young Louis! 🤓 pic.twitter.com/RTYv63MybT
— Louies for Louis (@louiesforlouis) April 27, 2018
"Little Prince Louis is waiting for the album too", said another.
Although that album is yet to materialise, Louis last year admitted that Arctic Monkeys were one of his primary influences in the creation of the record.
"My whole mission with this album is to not write these Hollywood-esque songs that talk about some unfathomable crazy love story, I'm so bored of that", he told BBC News.
"Because I'm from up north, I grew up loving the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and Oasis. And the way they tell stories is such an effortless thing. It's real, it's honest and it's to the point, you know?
"Now, any of the Arctic Monkeys would be devastated to hear me talking like this, but there is a way of incorporating that conversational honesty into pop."


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The time has come! You are ready with your mobile app development project and now searching for the right resource to manage the same. The choice of the company could be the game changer for the successful management of your project. And, as a project owner, you will not want your project to become a victim of poor management. Well, the success mantra lies in choosing dedicated support from a trusted mobile app development company.
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There is a huge emphasis on the collaborative method of project management by app development companies today. The approach benefits the project owners in a manner that they are given the chance to choose a dedicated group of mobile app experts to work specifically on their projects. And, when your project has got a dedicated support, you are sure to gain extended profits from the services.
As per the specification of the project owners and the prerequisite of the projects, the following aspects are decided:
- Selection of specialists.
- Choice of the process.
- Preference of project management tool, and.
- The control methods utilized.
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Being the project owner, you have got all the rights to choose a dedicated team of developers from the list of the best mobile app development companies. It, of course, needs your efforts to find out the right resource. However, there is a smart way available for you. And, it concludes browsing through the list of companies registered with marketplaces that deal specifically with mobile app development companies.
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One such platform that could help you exceptionally well in this approach is Appdexa. The marketplace has proved to be a boon for all such requirements for a number of companies, and, you can also gain the fair share of benefit from the same. Here is a glance of the benefits that you would have from this globally renowned marketplace:
- Extended list of companies to choose from.
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Why is Dedicated Support Important for Your Mobile App Development Project?
You gain quite a lot when working with a dedicated team of developers. Here are the important offerings:
- You save the time and the money as you don't need to go through the profile of every single company.
- Your project gets dedicated support, meaning the company is fully immersed into the same.
- This united team of developers uses its support and previous experience in providing the best support to your project.
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How to Facilitate the Exchange of Information with Your Mobile App Development Project?
It is always the best approach to remain on the safer side. And, for the same choosing, a company through the services of renowned marketplaces like Appdexa is not sufficient. You also need to exchange the information in the best possible way.
As you may get the assistance from a remotely established organization, you won't get the chance to visit their office and figure out the reasons for the delay in the services. Thus, pay attention to the following suggestions:
- At the initial stage, set the time limit for accessing the benefits of collaboration with the mobile app development team. In case, the services are not up to the mark, do not hesitate to part your ways.
- Find out if they are using innovative methods to take your project to another level.
- Choose a mode of communication that could leverage 24*7 connectivity with the chosen team. It will help you to connect to the team at any time of the day.
- Ask them to design exceptional marketing campaign as well as functional app development strategy. Inform them about your next investment plan so that they could work in accordance with the same.
- Do consider a discussion with the chosen mobile app development company for using specific tools such as "Jira" for bugs management system, "Worksnaps" for time tracking information, and "Confluence" for project documentation and management.
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The support of a dedicated mobile app development company could take your project to an entirely new level. And, when the services are just a few miles away, why not make the most out of these services. On the one hand, hiring such services is quite easy, it is important, on the other hand, to keep an eye on the approach the team is taking for your project management.


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Today, I have made an epic decision. Despite the modern age we live in, this world is too unfair so I am running away to join Starfleet. My application has been accepted and I passed the interview tests. I have been assigned to the USS Drakonia and we leave space dock in 10-14 days, once our maintenance work is complete. Bye-bye Earth.
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Dear Friends,
My name is Jenny Terran...
My name is Jenny Terran and I can't tell you when I was born because I don't know. I was found as a baby by a Starfleet officer on board an abandoned alien vessel of unknown origin in an uncharted region of space. No one knows how I got there or who my parents were. I was called Jenny, after the officer that found me and Terran because that is my species.
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Olean General Hospital Launches Second Year of St. Bonaventure University Clinical Experience Program
Posted on: 09/22/2009
Olean General Hospital recently welcomed the second wave of St. Bonaventure University pre-medical students to its one-of-a-kind Clinical Experience in Medicine Program.
The Experience in Clinical Medicine will provide 18 students of the SBU pre-med program exposure to a wide scope of medical and surgical services at the Hospital during the academic year. The program provides pre-medical students an opportunity to experience, first hand, a clinical environment and to explore issues surrounding the practice of medicine which are not covered in traditional pre-medical courses. Students are better able to understand the different specialties of medicine and to interact with both practicing physicians and physicians-in-training.
The program features weekly three-hour sessions in 12 different hospital departments such as surgery, emergency medicine, cardiology, pathology and psychiatry. Plus, weekly classroom lectures at OGH. It is open to sophomore, junior and senior students.
"This program in partnership with St. Bonaventure University, is truly unique and exposes students to a variety of clinical areas at an early stage in their education," said William Mills, M.D., Vice President of Medical Affairs. "By volunteering three hours in various rotations over the course of the school year, these students will not only have a tremendous differentiator to use on their medical school applications, but they will have a greater understanding of the broad scope of medicine in a hospital setting, and that may help guide their decision-making as they pursue a clinical specialty down the road."
Olean General Hospital's commitment to medical education and training is also evident in other collaborative agreements. Olean General recently signed an affiliation agreement with the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) in Erie, Pennsylvania as a clinical site for their college's medical students. Additionally, the State University of New York at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Research sponsors the only rural track family medicine post-secondary residency training program in New York State at Olean General.Back to archive
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S: 1935 Mercedes-Benz 540K True Roadster
FC: 540K Mercedes Benz
2: The 540K's were beautiful, elegant, and exclusive models often outfitted with voluptuous coachwork and sold to wealthy clientele.
4: I started building models as a young boy, model planes to start then on to aircraft carriers and ships. As I got older more detailed models of sailing ships with rigging and sails.
5: How I got into the large very detailed antique cars was Betty. She collects model cars from the Franklin and Danbury Mint. She also has made small metal models. I bought the first large model in 1989 for her to build and she said no way to complicated. So I built it for her. Since then I have completed three more and the Mercedes 540k is number four. It takes an average of 300 hours to build paint and detail. The most challenging was the wire wheels on the Rolls Royce. The cases are custom made of different exotic woods by myself. The plastic dust covers are made by TAP plastic to fit the wood base. This book was made for me by my friends Deneen and Peter of pdsfotoart to show the process of construction and intricate details not seen by just looking at the completed model. I hope you enjoy the model I built for Betty's collection. I enjoy building them. Skip
6: 1935 Mercedes-Benz 540K Production Figures 540K Production (1934-1940) 406 Specifications Engine Location Front Drive Type Rear Wheel Body / Chassis Steel body on steel frame Production Years for Series 1934 - 1940 Weight 7496 lbs | 3400.128 kg
8: Engine Configuration 8 Cylinders Inline
10: Standard Transmission Gears 5 Transmission Manual synchronized (except first gear)
12: Featuring a sensational world first, double wishbone front axle .
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16: Displacement 5400 cc 329.5 cu in. / 5.4 L.
17: Kompressor horsepower 180 @ 3400 RPM Torque 319 Ft-Lbs @ 2200 RPM
20: Mated Drive Train
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Windows Azure development
- November 02, 2010
02 Nov'10
At PDC: Microsoft's Muglia talks about Azure Platform as a Service advances
Windows Azure as platform for applications gained attention at Microsoft's PDC in Redmond, Wash. Platform as a Service [PaaS] is where the future of the cloud computing resides, said Bob Muglia, President of Server and Tools Business for Microsoft.
- October 19, 2010
19 Oct'10
Ray Ozzie out as Microsoft CSA - pursuing entertainment projects
Microsoft announced today that Ray Ozzie plans to step down from his position as Chief Software Architect for the company.
- March 30, 2010
30 Mar'10
Windows Azure's hidden compute costs
Many developers have voiced frustration with Microsoft Windows Azure's compute costs, which charges them regardless of CPU usage. The pricing structure seems more reasonable to enterprises, who stand to reduce administrative and infrastructural ...
- January 28, 2010
28 Jan'10
Early Azure adopters porting over .NET apps for more scalability
Microsoft Azure's first adopters are porting over existing applications more than they seem to be building all new ones. While a developer proficient in Visual Studio can write apps for behind the firewall or Azure's cloud computing platform, ...
- January 12, 2010
12 Jan'10
Early Azure adopter sees financial benefits of cloud computing
When Advanced Telemetry, an energy consumption monitoring and management provider, realized they could not accommodate their rapid growth with on-site infrastructure, they looked at cloud computing options to expand their computing resources.
- December 22, 2009
22 Dec'09
Developer advantages and challenges of Microsoft's Azure
Roger Jennings discusses which organizations and types of applications are likely to take the best advantage of Microsoft's new cloud computing service, Azure Services Platform.
- December 21, 2009
21 Dec'09
Windows Azure cloud computing services, part one
Roger Jennings, principal consultant at Oakleaf Systems and the author of a new book on Windows Azure, discusses the impending release of Windows Azure, its current state, and which organizations and types of apps are likely to take the best ...
- December 09, 2009
09 Dec'09
Q&A: Exploring Microsoft Azure, cloud and Silverlight futures
Software veteran Andrew Brust deals out new insights into the present scene and futurescape of Microsoft Azure, Silverlight and cloud computing. In particular, Brust -- chief of new technology at twentysix New York -- analyzes where Azure is now, ...
- November 13, 2009
13 Nov'09
Build and unit test Windows Azure projects from TFS Team Build
Windows Azure Storage a fast, scalable, and reliable storage solution for your Windows Azure applications. With the Windows Azure SDK, you get a version of Azure's cloud server and cloud storage that run on your desktop – DevFabric.exe and ...
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02 Nov'09
Microsoft lightens up to Eclipse for PHP, Azure related application building
Microsoft is working with open source companies Tasktop Technologies and Soyatec on interoperability projects focused on using the Eclipse platform to take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and improve Java and ...
- September 02, 2009
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Getting started with Microsoft Azure for developers
This is a four-part series from contributor Patrick Meader for developers to get started with Microsoft Azure.


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The crypto market has its ups and downs (especially right now) but for today, let's take our attention away from that volatility and focus on something positive. NEO (NEO) is in the midst of some major developments. Hence a bullish run for the promising company is on the way. Not only is the great news for investors but excellent for new exchanges such as Kelvin.
What's the secret behind NEO's market cap increase? One reason is related to Red Pulse (RPS). This is the first NEP5 token listed on the NEO platform. Furthermore, NEO got a nice bump from being listed on the Cobinhood exchange. However, the real meat of this market cap increase has to do with Restart Energy. The company's CEO and advisors set out on a tour of Europe to meet with investors and potential partners. Furthermore, they attended the Conference Blockchain on Smart Economy hosted by Restart Energy. There, NEO came to a new revelation that will "democratize the energy industry."
Restart Energy Democracy, which is funded by Restart Energy has over 27,000 households on its growing list of customers. Furthermore, there are also 3,000 corporate clients. Hence, this will provide a great opportunity to NEO now that they are partnering with Restart. Restart wants to use NEO as their entryway into China. China is very much invested in clean energy these days and with NEO acting as the middleman, this could mean great profits for the company and all parties involved.
At the time of writing this, NEO is trading at around $46 dollars. It's come a long way down from it's previous high but since the whole market is in a bearish run right now, that's to be expected. However, the top crypto experts see a bullish run coming in 2018 that will take NEO to $120. As a result, this is great news for all the up and coming projects in 2018 like Kelvin. As the market sheds some of those worthless altcoins, truly innovative projects can shine and make cryptocurrency more legitimate for all.


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Adhesive floor marking tape / aisle marking tape
manufactured from PVC with high tack adhesive. Our floor marking tapes / lane marking / and hazard warning tape is available in a range of plain colours or striped hazard chevrons. It is ideal for various applications including marking out areas in factories, gyms etc. This is an area we specialise in, we are the UK and Europe's leader in the design, manufacture and supply of printed tape, barrier tape, pipe marking tape, laminated and perforated tape.
Floor marking tape and hazard marking self-adhesive tapes are available in the following widths : 50mm, 75mm, 100mm & 150mm • Supplied in boxes of 24 • High grade vinyl • Aggressive adhesion for long life. • Manufactured to BS3887 and Defstan 75.7/1 Available Colours
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The Perfect Bodysuit.
Is anyone else's pet peeve about wearing tight tanktops and tees the fact that they constantly ride up at the waist area? I, personally, hate it when fitted tops bunch up where your natural curves are, creating unsightly silhouettes as you obliviously carry on about your day (with more important things to worry about than the fact that your top is riding up, again). This is where Tobi's bodysuits come to break the chains and free you of all your hideous-bunching-misery. This bodysuit of theirs, in particular, called the "Jen Halter Ribbed Bodysuit" (this one is in the Nude colorway), has the perfect cut and silhouette in my opinion. The thin spaghetti straps make it light and flattering, and the halter neckline is jussst low enough to make it feel sexy while still remaining classy. The lace-up back makes it adjustable while the ribbed polyester/cotton/spandex blend makes it feel high quality and elastic enough to hug most body types. Never worry about excessive bunching or annoying untucking again. Pair this bodysuit with literally any bottom and you're set for the day. Casual enough to wear during the day and elegant enough to transition into evening wear under your favorite skirt or slacks. I loved this bodysuit so much I had to get it in two different colorways.
I paired mine with simple white denim shorts, a sheer white coverup, and my Saddle Tan Narrow belt from Tanner Goods with a gold buckle. I topped the look off with gold accent jewelry to bring out the warm tones. Dainty Rose Gypsy chokers around my neck, stacked with our Same Matter "Circle of Life" Medallion. Timeless gold hoops on my ears, a classic Fossil watch with tan leather strap and gold-rimmed face, and a simple gold bracelet with matching anklet, all by Rose Gypsy as well. Sunglasses from ZeroUV, sandals from Alias Mae.25 awesome people like this post


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Sue has reminded me that we have talked about having a scorpion session tomorrow; and I have not reminded anyone or promoted it - so who's going to be there (please reply and let us all know)?
I think the original plan was to mix us up a bit and get our better pairs to help our less experienced sailors. We can of course do anything we choose based on who turns up...
Monday evenings is also proving to be a good Scorpion night, with half the fleet competing being Scorpions and I would suggest that it is an excellent evening to come down and sail and get tips from each other. Not only that, but Jock is out in a RIB and giving some on-water advice to those that want it - he got us pointing higher and sailing faster upwind and confirmed we had the spinnaker set ok downwind last week!


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Gayesco – WIKA
Gayesco, now part of the WIKA group of wholly owned subsidiaries, is a world renowned leading provider of quality solutions to the complex temperature measurement needs found in the refining, petrochemical, and process industries including fired heaters, SRU tubular reactors, and other unit types. In many applications, the solution-based designs of Gayesco brand multipoints have become the industry standard—accepted and approved by major licensors and end users. Founded in 1946, WIKA is dedicated to making advances in pressure, temperature, level, flow and calibration technologies. We offer a broad portfolio of measurement instruments — from engineered solutions to standard products. And, we provide services to support your design, installation, repair and calibration needs. With more than 8,500 employees and more than 40 locations around the world, WIKA provides the expertise, flexibility and delivery performance required from a global partner. Wherever you are in the world, you can depend on WIKA.


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"Have you ever felt as if you just didn't want to live anymore? Everything seemed to go wrong and you felt sort of mistreated and abused. Good luck just wasn't meant for you. Well that's the time to take a walk. It is amazing what walking can do to a depressed spirit. You just walk it away so slowly, ever so slowly. You don't realize it is disappearing until finally you discover it is gone. Yes, gone, and oh, life is so wonderful." --Vera Aleith Galbreath
In the mail on Friday we received a program from the memorial service for Vera Aleith Galbreath. I knew as soon as I saw the envelope what it was, and I was grateful. Grateful that someone had taken the time to let us know of Vera's passing. (Or, more likely, that Vera had arranged for this.)
Vera wasn't a relative. Not really a friend. Or a neighbor exactly. But she was a presence in our lives ever since we bought our first house.
It was a small house, just off of a busy street, about a mile or so from an urban lake. Both my husband and I would run down and around the lake a few times a week. Right past Vera's house.
One day my husband saw her working outside and asked if she needed any help. As it turned out, she needed someone to make a dump run for her, and so we did. And that was the beginning. My husband gave her his number and told her to give him a call whenever she needed help.
She didn't call very often, but when she did we'd head over and lift or haul or move whatever needed lifting or hauling or moving.
After I had my first baby she would cut out interesting articles for me about parenting and send them in the mail, or hand them to me if we ran into each other on the street, as we often did.
When we moved from the neighborhood we kept in touch mostly by Christmas card and she called upon us for help less and less often over the years.
Eventually we stopped sending Christmas cards (not just to her, but pretty much at all) and the time between our contacts became longer and longer.
Every once in awhile though we'd receive a letter or - even more rarely - a call just to check in. And sometimes we'd see her, out walking, as we drove through the old neighborhood.
Walking and walking and walking.
She walked everyday. She walked everywhere. She walked all the time.
Once we saw her at eleven o'clock at night walking back from the lake over the freeway overpass. It startled us. She was far too old to be out all alone walking at night we thought. So we stopped to ask her if she wanted a ride, but she just kept on walking. Now I know why.
Here's another quote from her essay on the benefits of walking: "As you walk [at night] don't think of fearful and frightening things. Have a sense that nothing wrong could exist in such a peaceful atmosphere and that no harm can ever touch you, for there is no such thing."
It doesn't surprise me that Vera knew this, knowing her, but it does surprise me a bit that she knew it as a young woman and that she lived it all her life. She didn't let age or darkness or distance scare her or keep her from doing what she wanted to do, what she knew she needed to do to be happy.
Goodbye Vera. We'll miss knowing that you are out there somewhere. Walking.


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An original icon of the Harley-Davidson® Dark Custom style. It sets the standard for the raw, stripped-down, blacked-out look.
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text: In the early days of snowboarding back in 1984, when the new sport only slowly gained foothold in Europe, the VIRUS team had already started to professionally manufacture snowboards in Germany and they have held their own ever since. But why "VIRUS"? This question becomes obsolete after the first descent with a VIRUS board and since quite some time now also VIRUS skis. Once you have been infected, you know: these boards are addictive!!


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Thursday, December 22, 2016
Real Madrid To Make Big Money Bid For Messi – Graham Hunter
Madrid will be able to buy new players next summer, after their transfer ban was reduced on Tuesday, by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) .
On the same day, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu, made it clear they were willing to make Messi the best-paid footballer in the world.
But Hunter, writing in the Daily Record, says Madrid have tried to lure Messi from the Nou Camp since he was just 13.
He wrote: "Whether you consider that Florentino will succeed … or be laughed out of court, the Real Madrid President almost has no option but to try one last shot at tempting Messi to cross the divide.
"My firm opinion is that not only will Messi refuse to contemplate betraying a club about whom he's always said "I owe everything to", it's still by far the most likely outcome that he commits to another four year deal at the Camp Nou before heading back to play for Newells Old Boys.
"But it'll be a shock if, over the coming months, it doesn't emerge that Florentino's has had one last roll of the Messi dice."
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I have long been passionate about getting across the message that great communication is a skill and as such can be learned and developed. However the great You Tube video of the toddler twins having their conversation has reminded me that impactful dynamic communication is such instinctive behaviour that it is with us from a very early age.
If we ignore the twins words, since despite some great suggestions we really don't know what they are saying, and instead focus on their physical and vocal techniques, we get some powerful insights into what makes communication work.
Notice for example how they are physically focussed on each other, whereas how many times do we see what should be important conversations delivered over a shoulder, with the result that the impact generated is way below what is needed. Look at the instinctive mirroring of the twins bodies and the resulting rapport that is so apparent.
They are impossible to ignore such is the projection of their voices, and part of the fun we have in watching them stems from their enormous energy and the enthusiasm they have for their task. How comfortable they are with the silences between each of their "statements"
If great communication is so instinctive and so simple and we all had it, where did it start to go wrong? Well that depends when our own negativity, paranoia and personal hang-ups started to kick in!


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My sister and nieces were going to visit some of those state emporiums, looking for new clothes for a family wedding. Shopping, especially of clothes, means looking at tens or even hundreds of things, discussing about the colours, textures and other details, comparing them with hundred of similar things you saw in the previous store, and in the end telling the sales-person, "Yes, we like these, keep them separately for us, so that we can go to the next store and repeat the whole thing once again and at the end, we may come back here to buy these!"
I am not very fond of shopping. I told my sister that while they did their shopping, I would prefer to find some good place to sit and read on my ebook reader.
Soon I found myself looking around for a place to sit. I saw many other persons sitting around, some even trying to sleep. Finally, I took the underground passage and walked to the Hanuman temple across the road.
On the stairs that went towards the temple, I brought out my camera from the bag, to click a picture of the temple. An old woman was sitting there with a yellow chunni wrapped around her head. That parapet looked like the right height for my legs, for sitting down and holding my ebook reader. So I decided to sit there, in front of the woman. As I went closer, the old lady raised up her hand to ask for alms. I smiled at her and sat on the other side, putting my bag between my legs. The woman smiled back at me and nodded, accepting my right to sit there.
I had yet not taken out my ebook reader and was looking around, when two men arrived near us, holding between them a big vessel. In a few seconds, a queue formed in front of them. The men queueing were unshaven with hollow cheeks, wearing dirty clothes, some of them in tattered clothes. The two men were distributing food for the poor - puris and aloo bhaji.
"Lo baba!" (Take it grandfather), I suddenly found two puris with the potato mix heaped on them, thrust in my hand. Before I could recover from my surprise, the man had already turned towards the old lady.
I was shocked - Those men had thought that I was some homeless beggar waiting for alms like the woman sitting across me?
I tried to look at myself through their eyes - a well fed man with a mop of white hair and white beard, wearing jeans and a kurta. I don't think that I was looking dirty or poor, but probably they had not stopped to look at me properly. May be all the persons sitting there were supposed to be homeless and poor?
People from middle class homes facing bad times, or those living on meagre pensions or those who were turned out by their children, could have been like me - ashamed to acknowledge that they were homeless and hungry, but forced by the circumstances to come out and sit there! Like the woman sitting across from me.
No one took any notice of me. I watched her eating puris and suddenly I felt like crying.
As the food finished, the two men walked away with the empty vessel and the hollow-cheeked men in dirty clothes disappeared as quickly as they had appeared.
As I sat there with those puris in my hand, life went on without any pause. A woman came, rolled out a durrie in front of us and sat down there. People going to the temple, left their shoes and sandals on her durrie and when they came out, they gave her some coins.
Another woman was sitting on the ground on one side, asking for alms from the visitors. A dog came cautiously near her. The woman smiled slowly and gave part of her puris to the dog. He gulped it down and then settled near her, his tail touching her legs.
On one side, some disabled persons were sitting there, their crutches and deformed limbs on exhibition. Some were with signs of leprosy, they were sitting a little away from the rest of the group.
Every now and then, some persons arrived with food or prasad for distribution, and those dirty looking men with hollow cheeks and tattered clothes, came out from where ever they had been hiding and quickly formed the queues.
Finally tired of sitting there, I walked around, stopping to give my puris to the woman with the dog.
Going up the stairs behind the group of disabled persons, there was another square with a few trees. Part of this area was occupied by some persons, mainly women, with low tables and chairs - these were temporary shops for getting henna-tattoo designs on hands and forearms.
After some time, I sat down on a low wall near those henna and tattoo artists.
Three palm-readers had their tables and chairs in front of another temple in the left corner. One of them wore the saffron colours of a sadhu. Behind them, on one side a shop advertised horoscopes and future predictions made with a computer. While the palm readers had an occasional client, the computer horoscope shop seemed to have more work.
There were many more persons in that space, most of them simply sitting around. Some were next to me on the low wall, others were sitting under the trees. Slowly the evening fell and the lights came on. It became colder. A chaiwala sitting down on the ground and making tea on a stove, was doing brisk business, continuously surrounded by clients.
Suddenly a fight broke out between one of the woman henna-tattoo designers and a young guy. Apparently, the woman was a veteran, while the young guy had just set up his henna-tattoo business. The woman had glasses with bright blue and yellow frame, she started shouting, spewing out violent cuss-words, usually used by men. Then she brought out a blade and slashed the guy's shop signboard, cutting it to pieces. The guy sat there cowering with fright, unable to say anything. After some time, the woman went back to her own table and the crowd that had gathered to watch the fight dispersed.
It was as if different parts of that open space were different ecological zones, each with its group of regulars and visitors, each controlled by its own laws. Around them moved the homeless persons, of which I had become a part, persons waiting for something, persons passing time. Finally I got up, feeling old, tired and cold.
As I walked back towards the emporiums, in the underground passage, an evening school had started. Two persons, a guy and a woman, were sitting on stools, with a group of street children in front of them. I sat down at the top of the stairs, watching their class for some time, till the cellphone in my pocket started vibrating. My sister had finished her shopping.
Finally it was time to go home.
I did not take many pictures that day. Looking at them, brings a node to my throat, and I feel old, tired and cold.


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January 5-7th
The weather was quite warm, almost balmy, for early January with temps in the mid-60's. The forecast was for partly cloudy skies on Saturday with temps again in the 60's. Much too warm for a bunch of Polar Bears!!
We started our hike up to the Catfish Fire Tower around 10 am on Saturday. It was about 1-1/2 miles with about a 300-400 ft elevation gain from the Mohican Outdoor Center (MOC) and our large, very comfortable "in-da-den" cabin. There were about 8 of us that hiked, spread out into two groups. The bottom portion of the trail was water-sogged due to recent rains and we navigated from rock stepping stone to the next for 200 yds or so. Before long we were at the top of the ridge overlooking the valley to the east. We were with Glen, NK1N, who was periodically videotaping this trip and later would produce a DVD of this Polar Bear outing.
We hiked north for another mile to the Catfish Firetower. It's at a grand location with views east and west and 360-deg vistas from the cabin of the firetower located about 60' above ground. I quickly assembled the W7EL FD two-element 20m phased beam made of ladderline amidst a lot of discussion among other Polar Bears. It's a gain antenna, transforming my 5 watts to a radiated power pointing west of about 30 watts (8 dbi of gain). One end was tied to the tower at 50' and the other to a distant tree at 30'. The wind was increasing so the climb up the tower was "invigorating" to say the least. The weather was improving with temps nearing the high 60's. If you were out of the westerly wind, it was almost hot!
There were about four radio operations so everyone spread out along the ridge so as to not interfere with each other. At the Catfish site, there was a throng of day hikers constantly asking "what's going on?" It's always fun to talk about "Morse code and small radios" and generally people are always amazed and somewhat enthusiastic but it always takes away from actual operating time. However, I made a number of contacts with the best being AZ, CA, and Oregon. I even had a long QSO with an acquaintance in Oregon and it was fun to bring him up to date with my east coast activities. I broke from the activities and gave Glen a chance to plug in his KX1 and have some fun with the phased array.
We had planned to hike down the ridge before the 4:30 sunset for safety reasons so I started disassembling the phased array about 3 pm. In 30 minutes I was packed up and ready to go. We were to pickup John, NU3E, on the way back since he was operating south of us a quarter-mile or so. But John was nowhere to be seen as we hiked thru that area. The consensus was that "he must have started down the hill." Later, we would find out that we left him up there when John walked out about 45 minutes later.
All in all, it was like a warm Spring day, not anything like a "normal" January outing! And a good time was had by all the Camp-Run-a-MOC attendees!
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Our favorite town was Kanab. We were treated so well in Kanab by Ken Gotzen-Berg. He personally made sure our hotel the restaurants,and the adventure tours were perfect. He met us when we arrived in Kanab with a welcome gift and let us know he was there if we needed him. The trip to the Pink Sand Dunes and Peek-a-Boo Canyon were beautiful. Our best meal was at the Sego Restaurant in Kanab. The food was excellent and the chef personally came to our table to great us.
The best attraction was Arches National Park and the light and sound boating on the Colorado river. After leaving Page, the last stop on the sweepstakes tour, we headed to the Grand Canyon. We stopped along the way to eat at a place call Cliff Dwellers on 89. Baya from Shash Glamping recommended it to us and it was very good.
We would recommend adding the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We stayed an extra two nights in Kanab to visit the North Rim and were so glad we did.
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Colombian senator cites Xenu, 'the Hole,' in wild televised hearing about Scientology scandal - 2018-08-22
Our man in Bogotá, a local Colombian journalist who prefers that we not name him, sent us this wild dispatch about what happened yesterday in that country's Congress regarding the swirling scandal involving the Church of Scientology. We can only dream that something like this was happening in the halls of power up here…
Yesterday the Colombian Senate's Second Commission, focused on defense and national security, called the recently appointed Minister of Defense, Guillermo Botero, and the commanders of the nation's armed forces to answer questions about their relationship with Scientology.
It's the first hearing faced by the new Colombian government of President Iván Duque, who took office on August 7, and it's a consequence of the scandal that has been keeping the attention of the country since photos of retired national police General Carlos Ramiro Mena in Barbados pinning a medal on Scientology leader David Miscavige became a national news story. In the last three weeks, more photos and videos have been dug up by newspapers, TV networks, and radio stations, showing how Scientology front groups Youth for Human Rights and The Way to Happiness have been promoted inside the military.
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Las Vegas…The Palms….trashy Chinese food….some of my favorite people talking about Learning systems and displaying their latest collection of "ts, ts" cards collected during their walking the strip.
Neil Lasher is talking to me about some of the ideas that he's had after reading my book and the conversation is going deep. Mike Hruska from Problem Solutions joins the conversation and we're all drinking the same Kool Aid when Mike says the one thing that really drives home what the future revolution in learning is going to be. Its this:
To date we have used technology to amplify the reach of the teacher so that the teacher's message gets to as many students as possible. The change required is to amplify the reach of the student so that there are more teacher messages per student. In other words, our focus has been increasing the ratio of students per teacher and what we need to do is build systems that increase the ration of teachers per student.
Think about it for a bit. Everything we do, including the latest "revolution" the MOOC is all about using technology to increase the distribution of 'educational materials' to reach more students. What if we worked with technology that makes it easier, more effective and more efficient to allow students to reach more educational materials. What would our systems do?
My guess is that we would be building better curation systems, intelligent tutoring systems that draw on a network of expertise and systems that have the 'student' role as the service center.
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Its Net profit grew by 11 percent to Rs 315 crore from Rs 284 crore.
On a consolidated level, the company reported a profit of Rs 315 crore on the net sales of Rs 3,285 crore. While Indian Operations' clocked a revenue growth of 6 percent in the first quarter of the current fiscal, as compared to the same period last fiscal, European Operations' revenue grew 10 percent.
Commenting on the results, Onkar S Kanwar, Chairman, Apollo Tyres said, "Despite the challenges posed by the Chinese imports, we have seen increased demand for our products from both OEs and the replacement market across product categories in India."
He further added, "Our newly-launched two-wheeler tyres have also been very well accepted by the customers. With the increased truck-bus radial capacity kicking-in the next 2-3 months, we are well poised to a higher volume growth in the fiscal. With the SAP issues resolved successfully in the past quarter, the European Operations has also grown in the past quarter."
The financial year, of the company, began with the announcement of the construction of the Greenfield facility in Hungary. The company expects rolling out the first tyres from the Hungarian plant by early 2017.
In line with its strategy to increase visibility in key markets, it rolled out the much-talked about campaign – Rock the Road. It is the biggest online campaign in the more than 100-year history of its European brand Vredestein. The campaign is aimed at increasing the brand's visibility and highlighting its premium offerings and superior performance.
The company is also focusing to expand its reach in the Key European markets with the acquisition of the Germany-based reifencom GmbH. The acquisition is likely to give strong online presence in many countries including Austria, Switzerland and France and will further support the growth of the retail network in Europe.
Apollo Tyres also entered in the Indian two-wheeler tyres market.
The company aims to be amongst the top 3 players in tyres segment with a clear strategy laid out for the next two years including the necessary marketing, advertising and R&D push. It is also doubling its capacity in Truck bus radial segment to further consolidate its leadership position. It includes
It also thinks that the economic revival that is underway in India is an opportunity for to benefit from all the past investments.


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We humans are good at quitting. Sometimes we start quitting before we even start trying. We begin to talk about work-life balance before we even attempt career trajectory. Before beginning a new eating lifestyle, we emphasize the importance of regular indulgences, desserts, snacks and treats. Our age, genetic limitations or health history are the header on an announcement that we have begun an exercise program. We cite discrimination prior to embarking on the fifty interviews it may well take to get that new job. We throw in the towel at understanding people who might disagree with us BEFORE they even open their mouths. We have such an emotional commitment to these oppression narratives that we feel indignation at the mere suggestion that they are lies, excuses or exaggerations. So, instead, let's take those narratives for granted. Let's say, "yes, this is real; the cards are stacked against me; but my obsession with that limiting factor is counterproductive." Acknowledge our disempowerment, our barriers to success, our universal constraints. Then, let's move on. Let's cultivate a thought process which emphasizes opportunity-seizing, resourcefulness, positivity, empowerment, and efficacy. Let us become better at not-quitting, at overcoming, at grit, at perseverance.
The Quitter's Spell
Every effort to focus on "can't" is an ingredient in the Quitter's Spell. The repetition of "I can't" is the strongest drug on the planet. It's tempting. It's addictive. And it's available everywhere for everyone at every moment in endless supply. We use this tincture in the Quitter's Potion; and we proceed to cast the Quitter's Spell. In a trance, our minds can only see failure. Like a shamanistic ritual, we enter a vision-state. We are out of our bodies, reacting to a past we never had, a present which isn't ours and a future which may never come. In spurts of sobriety, we catch glimpses of our real lives. But it does little more than reinforce the need for more of that Quitter's Spell. We yearn for the feeling, the sensation, the escape to an alternative universe where we can forever be the helpless victim, the disenfranchised enabler, or the righteous persecutor.
There is a way out. It's easier than we may think. But it is going to be one day at a time; and there will be withdrawals. We must give up the addictive high that comes from drowning in a sea of our sorrows. We must acknowledge our powerful desire to take on the role of victim. All the while we can develop our success narrative.
First, let us take a moment to examine how we cast this enchanting Spell.
1.) Ingredient #1 of Quitter's Spell is a heightened obsession over external circumstances: genetics; identity; age; health history; the Fates; the Universe. We get affected by external circumstances. We do. But when our dialogue is fixated on those things, only disempowerment will be found. We like to feel the rush of a pity party. We have legitimate gripes. But then there's this thing called pragmatism and practicality: how's playing the victim actually providing benefit? You see, looking for lack of opportunity is a skill. Looking for opportunity is a skill. Which one are we honing? This first stage spikes 8-12 weeks before we quit, which in some cases precedes our "attempt" at success.
2.) Ingredient #2 of Quitter's Spell is refusal to accept any reality check. Friends and family offer advice. Mentors offers direction. We say, "no one seems to understand that my plight is hopeless and there's nothing I can do but await the magical change in the winds of Fortune." No matter how bad we actually have it, someone else has done more with less. There were real martyrs. There were revolutionaries. There were foreigners with nothing, the wrong skin, the wrong language, the wrong background, who overcame oppression and succeeded by every standard we can imagine. There are paraplegics, quadriplegics and amputees who make dreams happen. As we enter the Quitter's Trance, we can't even hear that reality. Instead, we are going to move from victim to persecutor:
"What could YOU know? You aren't a [fill in the blank with some identifier that the other person doesn't have]! Shame on YOU! People like YOU are part of the problem!"
First off: great work – other people always appreciate the attempt to negate all of their life experiences, their humanity, and their thinking based on the simple fact that they don't share the exact same background as us. Second: we are right – they can't know exactly what it's like to travel another person's journey, in the same way that we can't understand the challenges they've faced and currently face. However, third: this is a red herring logical fallacy; there is nothing about who we are or who they are that proves impossibility. We are taking probability and assigning to it possibility. Nobody said it was going to be easy. But difficult is not impossible. This second stage of spellcasting occurs 4-8 weeks before quitting; and, again, this may actually precede our attempt at the endeavor we're about to quit. At this point, recognizing the error in our thinking can turn it all around; because more often than not some opportunities are coming to light.
3.) Ingredient #3 of the Quitter's Spell and the end-of-the-line is actively and overtly throwing away good/new opportunities. The magical winds of Fortune turn around and external circumstances are now working in our favor. However, even as new opportunities crop up, the entranced will scoff. We have moved from persecutor to enabler. It's not enough to state our errant belief and refuse perspective; we are going to push all the chips in and work hard at reinforcing that belief. We say, "it's too little too late; this just won't help; I am doomed to fail no matter what." A salesperson will get a new account or hot lead. A trainer will realize she hasn't been following up or managing contacts or spending any time on outreach. A client will recognize he's been shooting himself in the foot every millisecond outside of session time. But it just won't matter. We have devoted so much time, energy and resource to prove our victimhood, we would invalidate and devalue our self-sabotaging efforts by not quitting. We are invested and fully vested in the Quitter's Spell. We have obligated ourselves to quit to keep the ego intact.
And that's the coup de gras in the Quitter's Spell. We may announce our quit today or up to 28 days from today. But it won't be a minute longer. We're due. We sense the need to hurry up before another positive opportunity presents itself. We have to prove we are at the mercy of the planetary alignment, the zodiac, the hatred of strangers, big pharma, the left wingers, the right wingers, the man, the feminists, the elites, Karma, the fill-in-the-blank-with-red-herring-here. We say, "see, I knew I couldn't do it." It's an ironic moment, since we have just controlled an outcome to prove that we can't control outcomes.
The heart of the quitter is in us all. It's unsophisticated and always shouting the same message: you are powerless because of your external circumstances; no one can talk you out of it; nothing will work. I've been there. We all have. If you can just acknowledge that fact alone, your chances of success invert.
More proactively, seek perspective. Don't avoid it. Don't turn away from underdog stories. Don't pull the old "yeah, yeah, I've heard this before." Good. Hear it again. Bathe yourself in constant reminders of the very real and seemingly insurmountable difficulties other people face every day. I notice that people will cite statistics for indignation. But what happened to inspiration? Yeah, it sucks that 1 billion children live in poverty around the world. Yep, the multinational conglomerates are evil, yada yada. But how about the fact that if I make only 25 thousand dollars a year I'm in the top 10 percent wealthiest people in human history worldwide AND if I just spare 8 bucks a week I can make a profound difference in one of those impoverished kids' lives.
Personally, I collect incredible stories of elderly athletes, injured people who rise up, marginalized members of society who overcome our expectations. I do this for my own reality check to stave off the Quitter's Spell. I am consumed with these stories because they confound every excuse, legitimate or illegitimate. My favorite retort to clients who are beginning to throw the Grand Masquerade of Pity is, "at least you weren't born in a ditch in Calcutta." Sure. It seems heartless. But guess what: there are people actually born in ditches in Calcutta; and they aren't throwing pity parties. They're too busy actually making ends meet with hard labor. If they even had the opportunity to become literate, they don't have the leisure time to be disheartened by reading a news story at odds with their sensibilities. There are people getting raped right this instant merely because they are vulnerable in route to find potable water. In the time it took you to read the preceding paragraphs, two to three children died as a consequence of no access to clean water or bathrooms. But I get it: it's hard to face the day with so many unique and overwhelming challenges in your life. Like, how can you soldier on when Starbucks was out of your favorite coconut creamer? How do you press forward when your company just got restructured? When you got in your vehicle this morning, hydrated, nourished, and knowing full-well that you could sleep last night without assuredly dying from stray bullets or mortar fire, how o how did you summon the will – nay – the courage to turn the key in your car's ignition?
Check Your But
Confronted with reality and perspective, we like to fight it and fixate on buts. We like to go to war about how bad we have it; or we like to say, "true, but…" For the bellicose reader, there's nothing I can say today. However, for everyone else, I want to extend a challenge to you to check your buts. Every time you are cultivating your perspective, check your buts. You'll say, "great for so-and-so, but I could never do that." Stop. Check your but. You'll hear about the people in Calcutta and say, "I know, but I can't live that simply." Stop. Check your but. Perspective isn't going to come from your but. So quit pretending. Reality isn't found in your but. Nobody cares about your but. You can quit quitting if you just give up your buts. When you do, you'll no longer cast the spell of a quitter.
Author, Jonathan Watters, Owner Elev8 Wellness, www.elev8wellness.com


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This is a guide for how to find writing hashtags and how to use hashtags to grow your audience. Yes, you can make up your own. Yes you can do it to be funny or ironic. However, if you're using hashtags to be discovered by people you don't already know or who don't already follow you, this approach doesn't really serve you.
Up until 2007 I only knew of # as "pound sign." Then one day, when I was living in England, I was given a gate code.
"It's 4-8-6-3-hash."
Wait, what?
Maybe it was a button called hash. I don't know, maybe it's a British thing.
The five minutes at the gate staring for the hash button was one of the longest, most awkward feeling I've had in some time. I can't remember how I got out through the gate in the end, maybe someone came over and showed me which button was hash. Sigh. Canadians, amiright!?
Fast forward and everyone knows what # means. We just don't know how to find hashtags
OK maybe my wording isn't quite right. We see hashtags everywhere but we don't know which ones to use or how to use them right. I know this because I've been to a bazillion social media events and that question comes up every time.
And I've heard all sorts of answers to the question. All sorts. No wonder everyone's so confused. When there's a cloud at the pulpit there's a fog in the pew kind of thing. Blind leading the blind. Oh, and what about hashtag strategy?
Perhaps you're getting the sense we have a lot to cover here. You would be correct. This is going to be at least a four-part series. Here's how I see it going.
- How to find hashtags
- How to use hashtags on Instagram
- How to use hashtags on Twitter
- How to create a hashtag strategy
But we could go deeper.
First, what are hashtags?
A hashtag is a word or phrase used on a social media platform preceded by a hash or pound sign (#)
That's it. And I know if you see them around and don't use them much you are thinking "why would I have to find hashtags? Anything's a hashtag. #hashtag is a hashtag.
Yes. But if you're trying to grow your audience on social media using the right hashtags in the right way can be a key strategy to growth. SO. How do you find those hashtags?
Hashtags are essential because when used properly, you gain targeted and engaged followers
125 Writing Hashtags
How to find hashtags
OK, so yes you can make up your own hashtags, but if you're looking for engagement or want others to discover you, then you should use hashtags other people in your target audience are using. And don't get me wrong, you can use your own branded hashtags but that is a whole other subject. Right now let's focus on helping people find you slash your great content by using the right hashtags.
Here are two resources to check out.
There are lots of hashtag discovery apps, but this is the one I like for finding popular hashtags around a certain word or phrase when I'm on the go. As in, I'm in the middle of posting and I need hashtags! The app is minimalist—your only option is to search for hashtags. You do this by typing in a word, pressing search, then selecting the hashtags from the list. You can copy up to 30 then paste them all at once into your post or comment on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, etc.
When I'm more organized this is a fun site to use. You can type in words to the search bar and it displays the top hashtags using fancy charts. How fun!
When you hover over the results it also displays popularity and correlation to your original search term. This is a great way to research hashtags ahead of time.
One last comment about hashtags and yes, I'm repeating myself because I've heard this push back SO MANY TIMES. Yes, you can make up your own. Yes you can do it to be funny or ironic. However, if you're using hashtags to be discovered by people you don't already know or who don't already follow you, this approach doesn't really serve you. So yes, go ahead and #makeupyourown but don't be surprised if nothing happens.
Next time, I'll outline using hashtags for Instagram because there are a lot of rules to follow and it can be confusing! By special request I'll also cover the Instagram shadowban, which some swear by and others swear is a hoax. Ooooh drama!


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There's something unusually coherent about this set of winners; together, qua winners, they have about them the feel of a viewpoint new in Australian literary prizegiving, a strong whiff of post-nationalist awareness. Drawing the Global Colour Line is, as its title suggests, global in the scope of its analysis, while The Boat has been widely praised for its cosmopolitanism and its range, containing stories set in several countries. House of Exile is a 'group biography' of author and activist Heinrich Mann, his partner Nelly Kroeger and their several overlapping circles of acquaintances and friends, including Virginia Woolf (about whom there are some beautiful and surprising stories) and Heinrich's brother Thomas Mann, who despised and looked down on Nelly as a schreckliche Trulle which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.
So congrats to the 2009 nonfiction judges Phillip Adams, Peter Rose and Joan Beaumont, and fiction judges Peter Pierce, Lyn Gallacher and John Hay, for taking the long, broad view of what, within its official brief, an Australian literary award might encompass. Especially a Prime Minister's literary award, the judging process for which one might have expected to be somehow more rah-rah but is glad it wasn't. This is not for a moment to disparage more nationally focused awards, which have an important place, but only to be pleased that there's also room for books like these to rise to the top of the pile.
I've owned all three for yonks but to my shame haven't read any of them yet, except for Nam Le's story 'Halflead Bay' for a review of Mandy Sayer's anthology The Australian Long Story. It's not quite a question of not having the time. It's more that books of this quality demand an answering quality of mind in their readers, a sharpness of focus and subtlety of attention that it can be very hard to bring to non-work reading when reading is what you do for a living. Because you need to be in a particularly alert and receptive state of mind to do any of these books proper justice as reading-for-pleasure.
'This new work took on fresh urgency with the consolidation of Nazi power in Germany in the 1930s and the pitiless application of eugenic principles and racial technologies -- many of which had been rehearsed under colonial regimes -- in the heartland of Europe, the results of which were to finally scarify the conscience of the world.'
'Keep a straight back, Mrs Sasaki says. Wipe the floor with your spirit.'
'But the party was in full swing, the atmosphere rippling with anecdotes and laughter, so much so that a button popped off the decolletage of Nelly's red velvet dress to reveal the splendid contours of her lacy bra. I like to think that the little red velvet button described a perfect arc across the table and landed right on top of Thomas Mann's Charlotte surprise.'
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by Marilyn Atkinson, PhD and Rae T. Chois, MCC
Your Mastery as a Coach – Effective coaching and transformational conversations. This second book offers skill development practice with the coaching arrow, a metaphor for clarifying and detailing an effective coaching conversation. In the same way as the diamond from Book One assisted with understanding the macro elements, the coaching arrow in Book Two assists the reader to detail and sequence the micro elements of an effective coaching conversation.