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November 11, 2014
The Best of the Best: SGR's Supplier Sales Rep & CSR of the Year!
Filed under: Editorial
Hi Everyone!
Truly, one of the best parts of my job (and there are many) is the privilege of giving awards each year to the SGR Supplier Sales Reps of the Year and Customer Service Rep of the Year. Now in its fifth year, these awards are based on distributor voting what I think is the perfect way to wrap up the year.
I'm admittedly thrilled that the winners of both awards are women, who have made huge strides in the business since I joined nearly 18 years ago and now make up a decided majority of the industry. And they're getting their due for the success they bring with them, which is about time.
Our amazing Supplier Rep of the Year, whose nominations from distributors were downright effusive, is Julie Strob (at left), the key accounts manager for Counselor Top 40 supplier Hit Promotional Products. Let me end the suspense: She's the real deal. With an increase in sales of 40% over 2013, Julie's sales strategy is clearly paying off. But don't take it from me; I invite you to contemplate the words of Danny Rosin, president of the Raleigh-based distributor BrandFuel, one of the distributors who nominated Julie:
"She's someone our team counts on to help us with those complex opportunities by educating us on options, going to bat for us with her management team and being incredibly responsive – for someone on the road so often, we really appreciate that," says Rosin. "She's also taken the time to understand who our clients are so that we can be mutually successful. The best part? She's someone we trust – and she is honest."
Then there's this year's Customer Service Rep of the Year. I confess, I'm been on the receiving end of such horrific customer service (and blogged about it with such acidic venom I'm sure certain airlines, cable companies and phone service providers have me on their own personal "eff with" list) that when I experience good customer service, my loyalty for that company becomes downright evangelical. I'd even go so far to say that I believe customer service is the most important department – yep, even more than sales – of any company. Why? Salespeople get the clients, but it's the customer service reps who keep them coming back and have the power to turn them into word-of-mouth advocates.
And hoo boy, does this year's winner of the SGR CSR of the Year – PCNA's Cally Neal (lower right) – have those traits in spades. "Cally has always been extremely supportive of our initiatives and her follow through is first rate," says Cathy Cummings, supplier relations manager at Counselor Top 40 distributor AIA Corp. "I can always depend on Cally to provide product suggestions and sales assistance."
Jennifer McNab, manager of vendor relations and product development for Counselor Top 40 distributor Accolade Promotions Group, concurs. "Over the last three years Cally has helped us become more sophisticated with the approach we have for product placement in our programs and catalogues," McNab says. "She has provided us with industry insight specific to our various markets as well as insight into what companies in the same industries as our clients are having success with. Her professionalism has evolved and she has truly taken the 'let me help you' approach to managing our business. Her perceptiveness, expertise and commitment to helping our business grow is an asset, attributes that we wish more of our suppliers brought to the table."
So here's to Julie and Cally, who truly exemplify the best this industry has to offer!
July 31, 2014
Meet Lion Circle, the Supplier Family Business of the Year!
Filed under: ASI Shows, Editorial, Fun, Interviews, Travel
Hi Everyone!
In my last blog post, I shared with you the full version of the article I wrote on Brown & Bigelow's Cindy Jorgenson, this year's Counselor Woman of Distinction. Well, this time around, I'm sharing the full article on this year's Supplier Family Business, Lion Circle. The Chicago-based company is owned by the Carollo family, and Rich, of course, is the second-generation sibling you all know. Hands up: Is there anyone in the industry who doesn't love hanging out with the gregarious Mr. Carollo? I tell him he's like my brother from another mother (to which he retorts that I'm his "sister from another mister"), despite the fact that we only met two years ago at the SAAC Show. But oh, what a meeting it was. I had e-mailed him to ask if we could get together so I could interview him for a Counselor article… What followed was an impromptu mini bar tour bender, which was an epic meeting of the minds second only to when Janis Joplin encountered Jim Morrison for the first time. When those two Dionysian heathens met, Janis threw a bottle of bourbon at the Lizard King for being a degenerate disgrace. In our case, Rich ended the night by saying goodbye to me in his own special way — hurling a green wax apple at my head. I've adored him ever since…
The company that Rich and his family run is truly one of the best in the business, not the least of which is because every year for the last seven it's dominated the "Fan" product category in the Counselor Distributor Choice Awards and its products are Made in the USA. Love that, and love the gracious Carollo clan even more.
Cheers to the Carollos for deservedly winning this year's Counselor Supplier Family Business of the Year award, and read on for the unabridged article I wrote about them in August's Counselor.
It's the classic tale of the American Dream, which is fitting, knowing that Lion Circle is one of the few suppliers in the industry whose products are manufactured in the U.S.
In 1963, straight from the U.S. Army, Phil Carollo started out in the shipping department of Lion Match Corporation of America. He understood early on in the job that it was more cost effective to ship to multiple drop points along the way, saving the company money and becoming more efficient for clients. This basic shipping philosophy would make him the top salesperson for the company in less than three years, even though he wasn't in the sales department. When the owner was ready to sell the business and retire in 1975, Phil was reluctant to purchase the business. He had four small children all under the age of eight at home and no spare funds to buy into a business of this magnitude. But the owner loved Phil's tenacity and assisted in finding a partner to help shoulder the debt.
Cut to 1984 when Phil – now the company's sole owner – changed its name to Lion Circle, and saw he first of his four children, Philip Jr. (Jay) come aboard full time. Like his father, Jay also started in the shipping department, learning the business from the ground up. They were focused on becoming more efficient and decided to invest in some paper lamination equipment to provide a different type of matchbook to their customers. Jack was the next to join in the shipping department full time – an area he now oversees, with Jo-Ann and Rich coming to work during the school breaks over the summers, between high school and college.
But by 1988, the match business was declining, due to anti-smoking campaigns. Almost by divine intervention, Phil had gone to Mass and noticed the old church fans in the pews. At the end of the service, he had a new plan of what he could do with his existing equipment. In a stroke of perfect timing, the Wall Street Journal ran an article on the reintroduction of church fans as an advertising vehicle just a few weeks later.
Today, Rich – the gregarious Carollo sibling everyone knows in the industry and who was on Counselor's Hot List in 2012 – leads the day to day operations within the organization with oversight from Phil. Jo-Ann now spearheads the company's internal operations, human resources and financial responsibilities. Currently, all four of Phil Carollo's adult children are working in the family business full time.
"The best part of the business is having all my children working with me," says Phil, the patriarch. "I've watched them all grow in different directions, but each of them has something to contribute to the business that's been such a significant part of my life." And the toughest part? "Having all my children working with me," he laughs. "Sometimes it's hard to get us all focused on the same page. Also, we spend a lot of time together during work and after hours. Our spouses and kids became sick of hearing about all the work issues when we are all together, so have an unwritten rule not to talk about work during the weekends or dinners unless absolutely necessary."
With the second generation fully engaged, Lion Circle continues to grow and thrive as a family business, experiencing 10% growth for the last four years, with YTD sales stronger than those in 2013. The company has won the Counselor Distributor Choice Award in the Fan category for the past five years, and its new growth is coming from acquisitions as well as new business development. The HaPi Line was integrated in 2007, adding more paper products and promotional head wear; Sam Line was purchased in 2012, adding magnets and plastic substrates.
The third generation of Carollos — seven grandchildren, ages 10 to 18 – is following their parents' lead in the company. "Most of them have been in to help at one point or another," says Jo-Ann. "When we were kids we used to glue matchbooks in catalogs for samples over summer and holidays – getting paid 5 cents per catalog – and sweep the floors and make buttons. Our kids do the same – cleaning, sweeping, paper shredding, gluing sticks to fans, adding tassels and light assembly work."
Rich points out that as the second generation is "still relatively young," they'll continue the commitment to make Lion Circle a successful family business for generations to come. "My dad will continue to direct the business and tell us all the crazy new products we should be developing based on a TV show he saw or an idea he had while walking on the beach in Florida. And because our kids will be graduating college in 10 years, I would think a few of them might choose to join us."
July 22, 2014
Meet Cindy Jorgenson, Counselor's 2014 Woman of Distinction
Filed under: ASI Shows, Editorial, Interviews, Personal, Travel
Hi Everyone!
I'm just back from Chicago, where I spent a week at the ASI Show, the Counselor Best Places to Work conference and squatting at my BFF Sharon Biernat's house, an oasis of cool in the middle of the city that I never want to leave. Sharon, a distributor sales rep with Skokie-based Creative Promos, and her fabulous husband Bob (All Hail Bob!) open their home to me and the parade of industry crazies I invite over every year and they do it with grace, hospitality and style. Sharon's house is the best unofficial B&B in Chicago and I thank her for letting me treat it as my home-base — with limitless gourmet snacks and never a pesky "last call" with which to contend.
One of the highlights for me last week was the privilege of presenting Brown & Bigelow's Cindy Jorgenson with the 2014 Counselor Woman of Distinction Award. And hoo boy, does she deserve it. Read below for the full text of what I wrote about Cindy for the upcoming issue of Counselor. And I'd just like to add that in addition to being one of the most talented people in the industry, Cindy proves one thing: For those who say that nothing good ever happens at God-awful Shenanigans (yeah, it's a hellhole, but it's OUR hellhole…), know that Cindy and I first met there 13 years ago have been each other's industry girl crush ever since.
And now, without further delay, the many reasons why Miss Cindy Jorgenson is this year's Woman of Distinction…
You would think — considering that she's climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, swam with whales, cage-dived with great white sharks and repelled through cavernous waterfalls – Cindy Jorgenson, what with her penchant for putting herself in precarious positions, is a charter member of the Justice League. In fact, as an 18-year industry vet and the current vice president of sales for Counselor Top 40 distributor Brown & Bigelow, she's intent on tackling a Herculean challenge closer to home – completely upending the industry's reputation as one of an old boy's club.
"If you look at the management teams and boards of directors across the industry they're still very male dominated," Jorgenson says. "But on the sales side it's very female dominated. In general, women don't take as many risks and can lack assertiveness … We tend to play it safe. However, our attention to detail, ability to multitask and to emotionally connect with people give us an edge that can't be ignored. My goal is to continue to motivate women into this industry and once here, help them move beyond support positions into sales and management."
Bill Smith Jr., president of Brown & Bigelow and Jorgenson's boss, concurs. "Cindy has been a role model for many people at Brown & Bigelow, especially women. She has mentored sales assistants in their transition into sales, new sales people learning our industry as well as experienced sales people making the transition to selling national accounts. Credibility is her greatest strength. Sales people respect her because she's actually done what she recommends."
And it's this kind of commitment to mentorship that Jorgenson, who's a past president of UPMAPP, is quite familiar. "I worked for a small distributor prior to joining B&B," she recalls. "I started, at age 21, as an assistant to the owner who was also the largest producing salesperson. I held this position for 18 months before moving into sales, and I now know – without question – that first 18 months is why I'm in management today. Not only could I see the sales process, but I had the opportunity to view and come to respect the management side of the business as well. The owner/salesperson I worked for in the beginning told me that when I become successful, I must reach back and take someone's hand, just as he took mine. Serving on the UMAPP board allowed me to do that; my position at Brown & Bigelow now allows me to do that every day by coaching sales partners on prospecting, time management, generating leads and proving a return on investment."
"Talk about a go-getter – if you can keep up with Cindy, good luck," says Rena Ashfeld, national sales manager for MN-based supplier Advance Corporation. "I've had the privilege of being on UMAPP Board with her, being one of her suppliers and her best friend … to see her at work is amazing. She mentors and cares deeply about this industry. This girl can multitask during the day for her clients, spin around like Wonder Woman and network at night like a rock star. She's truly a force to be reckoned with."
Jorgenson advises that the best course of action for younger sales professionals is to start on the inside. "The learning curve is enormous in this industry," she cautions. "My advice would be to learn on the company's dime. Collect a salary, learn the business, make mistakes and get some product knowledge under your belt. When you have that, then transition into sales. You'll go with more confidence and less costly mistakes."
Speaking of those, Jorgenson points to a doozy of a faux pas she made early on in her career: "I took too long to realize the importance of the supplier-distributor relationship," she admits. "That first distributor I worked for had the mentality of 'we are the suppliers' customer and they must do what we say.' That couldn't be more wrong. Our suppliers are just as important, if not more so, than our clients. Without them, we have nothing to sell, and without their processes, procedures and quality control measures nothing would ever get delivered. If you're still beating up your suppliers stop and start partnering with them – I promise your business will grow."
For Jorgenson, the woman who never met a goal or challenge she didn't like – all while wearing heels as high as carjacks – her love of the industry remains constant. "It's the products, the people, the independence, the fact that salespeople define their own lives and income, the creativeness, the constant change you must make in yourself to stay competitive, the crazy, chaotic deadlines, the pull-your-hair-out, must-have-a-freaking-cocktail-right-now pressure," she says. "I love it all."
May 19, 2014
Asia's Spring Shows: Can a Quarter Million People Be Wrong?
Filed under: Asia, Editorial, Travel
Well, hey there friends, cohorts, revelers and raconteurs!
Am I the only one beside myself with giddiness that summer is almost here after a dark, dismal, Game of Thrones-esque (all hail the Kingslayer!) long winter?
One marker I always use for the start of summer is my return from Asia's premier spring shows – the Canton Fair and the Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Show – which are the largest promo showcases in the world.
In the past, I have – and I don't think this is too strong a word – eviscerated the Canton Show as The. Worst. Show. EVER. (in case I was vague) and the city in which it's held, Guangzhou, as the 10th Circle of Hell. Except Hell isn't as hot, smells better and has nicer architecture. Well, I'm here to say that in the two years since I've been, the show and the city have gotten noticeably better. Let's call it hell-ish. In China – unencumbered by construction permits, pesky public protests and journalistic oversight – buildings and transportation infrastructure are created at a rapid pace – what would take 10 years to build in the States is done in six months in China. Consequently, the landscape of Guangzhou, for example, is constantly undergoing growth and upgrade. And yes, it's better – prettier, more hopeful and optimistic; not so gray and oppressive.
The Canton Show, now in its 115th session, is still an awful show from an organizational standpoint (should you need help from a member of the show staff, don't hold your breath – they are sparse and barely speak English) but it, too, is getting better. Consider that at this session alone, held from April 23rd-27th, 188,119 buyers from 214 countries and regions attended; at the immeasurably better and more enjoyable Hong Kong Gift & Premium Fair, 65,000 buyers from 151 countries and regions attended from April 27th-May 1st. If you want to experience truly international events, these are the places to be. Suppliers from our North American promo industry flock to these events each year to purchase the latest and greatest items from Asian vendors, many of which distributors will see in their lines within the next six months. Is it worth the torturous 16-hour-each-way flights, the circadian-rhythm shocking jetlag and the skeezy food (read: pigeon hot dogs and fish-eye soup)? Yes. Because if you want the opportunity to witness, first-hand, product trends being born and to build a robust web of global business contacts, this is where you want to be. Even if I did throw a toddler-like temper tantrum during the exhausting and laborious process of crossing the border from China into Hong Kong. (Customs officer: "Do you have anything to declare?" Me: "Yeah. Guangzhou sucks." As Rich Fairfield, ASI's chief revenue officer and publisher, rolled his eyes and attempted to pull me along.)
Read on for some fun photos and a glimpse into what ASI's Powers That Be – President/CEO Tim Andrews and Rich Fairfield – really talk about when they're together. Hint: It made me COL (Cackle Out Loud).
February 24, 2014
PPPC's Show is Bang On!
Filed under: Editorial, Fun, Travel
Well, hey there, Everyone!
Lest you think I'm way too sassy and salacious for a Monday morning with that headline, understand that my Canadian friends tell me the phrase "Bang On" means "spot on" or, in the case of this year's PPPC National Convention, just perfect.
With events like its first-ever industry hockey game and networking event that raised nearly over $9,000 for Operation Santa Claus, which supports Canadian troops deployed overseas, a packed awards ceremony and steady show floor traffic throughout its three days, PPPC's 58th annual national trade show and convention – the eighth largest trade show in Canada – lived up to its reputation as the premier event for the Canadian promotional products industry.
"PPPC's 2014 Annual Convention and Trade Show was an outstanding success from Day 1 on January 27 right through to the well-attended 'Client Day' on Friday, January 31," said Ed Ahad, PPPC's president & CEO. "Members came in from across the country to play in the inaugural NPPHL Charity hockey tournament and networking event, to celebrate success and creativity in the Awards Show, and to showcase new products and effective marketing solutions on the show floor to distributors and their clients. It was great to see the activity on the show floor with members working together throughout the three days of PPPC's flagship event. We were especially proud to introduce the new PPPC-owned IT solution and state-of-the-art search engine, 'Promocan, Powered by PPPC,' to the membership. It will prove to be an invaluable tool for members for many years to come."
Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Center, the show draws exhibitors and attendees from areas throughout Canada, in addition to some participants from the U.S., who continue to eye Canada's $3+ billion promotional market as one full of opportunity, particularly in the areas of finance and energy.
"I have never been a 'product' person at this show," said Michelle Merrifield, vice president of operations at McCabe Promotional Products. "It's more about connecting face to face with supplier partners and distributors. This year's PPPC national show was filled with optimism — what a great venue to connect and build stronger relationships with old and new colleagues alike."
Danny Braunstein, vice president of sales & marketing for Talbot Marketing, agreed. "The PPPC National Convention and Tradeshow is a week I look forward to every year," he said "The event is more than just an opportunity to catch up on the latest and greatest product offerings, it is a time to celebrate camaraderie, creative achievement and our unique Canadian industry. This year was particularly special for our organization as our President Steve Levschuk was inducted into the PPPC Hall of Fame."
At the association's 34th annual Image Awards ceremony, hosted by Spector & Co.'s vice president of sales & marketing, Marc Giroux, Levschuk was welcomed on stage by a congratulatory video from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, a friend of Levschuk's — one of the evening's many highlights. During the ceremony, Leed's received the Gold Award for Supplier of the Year and Shippam & Associates were named the National Distributor of the year. Click here for a full list of Image Award winners.
Founded in 1956, Promotional Product Professionals of Canada is the national grouping of suppliers and distributors of promotional products for business gifts, rewards, incentives, premiums and specialty advertising products. Its mission is to lead, inspire and advance the $3.5 billion industry through the strength of more than 7,222 companies involved in the business and their 24,000 people across Canada. PPPC's 2015 national convention and trade show will be held from January 26-30. For more information go to www.pppc.ca.
Finally, a personal thanks to Carol Phillips, PPPC's editor & director of publications, for being such a warm, gracious and hospitable host. Fred Oesen may be the Canadian promo industry's Prime Minister, but you are the Ambassador. ; )
And now, a (rogue's) gallery of some of my favorite industry legends, characters, tipsy gypsies and hurricane-force hell raisers. Love. Them. All.
January 17, 2014
Danke Schoen, Dusseldorf!
Filed under: Editorial, Fun, PSI Shows, Travel
Happy New Year, Everyone!
As we're deep into show season, I just returned from the fabulous PSI Show in Dusseldorf, Germany, held from January 8-10. Now in its 52nd year, attendance at the PSI Show grew 18% from last year's event, due primarily to the event staff giving distributors free access to attend. With a total of 16,228 trade visitors (up from 13,772 in 2013), the largest ad specialty show in Europe was both re-energized and revitalized. Yes, some of the largest European suppliers (PFConcept, MidOcean, Senator) have stopped exhibiting at the event, but with a total of 852 exhibitors (down from 962 in 2013) from 33 countries, the latest global trends and innovations in promotional products were fully on display.
"Yes, the show is smaller from an exhibitor standpoint, but I've been exhibiting at this show for many years and this is one of the most successful," said Rene Adda, owner of the Paris-based supplier Lexon. "Because some of my larger competitors aren't here, I'm getting much greater traffic."
Albert van der Veen, CEO of Xindao, one of PSI's largest exhibitors, noted that the number of catalogs sold (in Europe it's common for suppliers to charge for their catalogs and samples at trade shows) to attendees on the first day of the show doubled over last year.
"After two challenging years in the international markets, characterized by sometimes severe drops particularly in Western Europe, this year's trade fair was buoyed by a renewed, forward-looking sense of optimism. That was the basic tenor heard at PSI 2014," said Michael Freter, PSI's managing director.
Interestingly, more than half of PSI's visitors came from outside of Germany, with a tenth of those from outside Europe. "This partially results from the enhanced international marketing activities we engaged in collaboratively with our partners ASI and Sourcing City in the PromoAlliance," Freter said.
The 53rd annual PSI Show will be held from January 7-9, 2015. For more information, go to www.psi-network.de or e-mail me directly – it's an AWESOME show, and I'll be there next year for sure!
Now, enjoy the gallery of photos from the event and my escapades abroad!
Cheers, and more in two weeks from the PPPC Show in Toronto,
December 12, 2013
Dogs & Beer Floats & Big Wheels… Oh My!
Filed under: Editorial, Fun, Travel
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
As today is ASI's annual holiday party, spearheaded by the wildly clever and imaginative Stephanie Cohn-Schaeffer who each year comes up with a different fun theme, during which ASI's owners and management recognize and laud the accomplishments and contributions of the company's 500+ employees, I was reminded of the first-ever Counselor Best Places to Work conference, held last month in Santa Barbara.
Staged at the beautiful Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara, the event drew attendees and speakers from the list of winners on this year's Counselor Best Places to Work contest, many of whom use creative and innovative strategies such as in-office dogs, Friday beer parties, visiting masseuses and cocktail cruises around the Statue of Liberty to motivate their valued staffers.
It was a testament to how savvy theses owners are that they recognize that it just makes smart business sense to continually find ingenious, unique ways to recruit, retain and reward employees. Why? Because study after study shows that businesses that do just that are more successful and have higher profits.
At ASI's event, Glenna Fulks, our intrepid and uber-efficient event planner, trotted in a dog to hang out with attendees, arranged for a beer tasting of brews local to Southern California, had Big Wheels shipping in for fun CEO-style races. Between those events and the TED Conference-like, rapid-fire 20 minute Q&A sessions with execs from companies on the Best Places to Work list, the agenda was chock-full of valuable information (so attendees told me) to use as employee motivation tools. ASI believes in the concept so much, that they're doing the event again next year, in Chicago on July 18th, right after the ASI Show.
See below for lots of fun photos from the event, and more in the next few weeks from the Activate! national sales meeting on Amelia Island and the PSI Dusseldorf Show, both in the beginning of January.
Cheers and Merry Christmas!
September 27, 2013
ASI's 2013 Power Summit: Rocky Mountain High
Filed under: Editorial, Fun, Travel
Hi Everyone!
Hope you're all doing well and reveling in the awesome Fall colors!
Recently, ASI hosted its 7th annual Power Summit, in stunningly picturesque Park City, Utah. Having been to all seven Power Summits, this one was something special… From the amazing panelists and speakers, to the networking activities, to the locale, it was quite the experience. You know, each year, Park City is overrun by A, B and C-list Hollywood celebrities for Robert Redford's famed Sundance Film Festival. I would dare say that our group had its own fair share of industry luminaries who made an appearance for the event, as you'll see from the photos and short videos below.
A few notable shout-outs: A big thank you and super-huge kudos to the four distributor contestants — Kaspo Inc.'s Matt Kaspari, Bob Lilly Promotional Products' Tommy Lewis, Tagsource's Tonia Allen Gould and P.O.P Solutions' Nicole McNamee — who agreed to participate in this year's Marketing Smackdown panel, and to HALO's SVP of Marketing, Terry McGuire (hoo boy, do I LOVE Terry… Nobody, but nobody, in the industry sends me e-mails that make me LOL like he does…), who moderated the session. These gutsy folks were given a marketing scenario one hour before taking the stage to do a presentation in front of the 200 industry pros in attendance, and then were judged — through text voting — by the audience. They weren't allowed to rely on help from their home offices, and had to pull a comprehensive promo products-based presentation together, keeping in mind budgets, target audiences and social media add-ons. It is a wildly stressful thing to do, and they all did it with panache, talent and style.
Finally, I always like to give my own personal award at fun industry events to the industry celeb who was the King or Queen of the Party — the one who kept all the wackiness and merriment going. At the Power Summit, I give a special nod to The Fabulous Hersh Boys — Brett and Glen from Admints/Zagabor — who had the party to end all parties in their suite. What I love about them (other than Glen's heavy Grey Goose pour) is that their graciousness knows no bounds and they are deeply decent guys — they invite clients, colleagues, competitors, everyone to their party, living by the motto, "The more the merrier." They are just The Best.
More soon and enjoy the photos and videos!


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Brussels, 13 October 2011
Background information on Communications "Agenda for Change" in EU development policy and EU budget support
Why does EU development policy need to be changed?
Europe and the world are facing far-reaching political shifts; the world is going through economically uncertain times. At the same time, the challenges we face are becoming ever more complex and not enough progress is being made towards eliminating poverty. To make sure that EU policy has the greatest possible long-lasting impact on reducing poverty, it must refocus its efforts.
The context of development cooperation is changing. New actors are become increasingly involved in development cooperation, including the private sector; large emerging countries are becoming active as donors and some of them establishing their own cooperation agencies. Finally, the EU has undergone institutional changes with, among other things, the establishment of the European External Action Service.
With the Arab Spring, movements for reform and democracy have swept an entire region. One of the lessons for the EU from these recent events is that greater weight needs to be given to good governance, human rights, democracy and the rule of law in deciding what instruments and methods of aid delivery are used in specific countries.
Some of the EU's partner countries have embarked on development paths of sustained growth with their own resources at their disposal (e.g. effective tax systems). Development cooperation needs to reflect this: future aid should be allocated in a way which better addresses the distinct needs, capacities, commitments and performance of partner countries.
Recent developments in food and commodity prices show that the exposure of developing countries to shocks arising from climate change and volatile food and energy prices needs to be better addressed, for example with investments in areas such as agriculture and energy.
Studies have shown that billions of Euros could be saved if donors coordinated their work better. The EU and international donors have already made considerable efforts in recent years to harmonise their activities, in order to avoid duplication and increase the impact of their work. But more work is needed in coordinating and making sure that labour is divided sensibly among the different actors.
How can the EU ensure more transparency in its aid?
The European Commission is already one of the most transparent aid bodies in the world. Such transparency is in itself an important tool in ensuring effective value for money.
This has also been recognised by the UK organisation "Publish what you Fund" which ranked the European Commission in 4th position (out of 30) in it is first aid transparency assessment of donors in February this year.
However, in order to make its work even more transparent, the European Commission has signed up to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Readily-available information about aid will help development stakeholders to better track what aid is being used for and what it is achieving – from the taxpayers in donor countries who provide the money, to those in developing countries who benefit from aid spending.
By providing a common international standard for the publication of aid information, IATI will make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand.
What is budget support?
Budget support involves financial transfers to the national treasury of the partner country, combined with intense policy dialogue. It includes performance assessment of the partner country's policies and capacity-building measures and is based on the principle that the EU and the recipient country work as partners and are mutually accountable. Budget support should not be seen as an end in itself, but as a means of delivering better aid and achieving sustainable development objectives by fostering partner countries' ownership of development policies and reforms. It addresses the source, not just the symptoms, of under-development, and provides the strongest platform that we have to engage in a broad policy dialogue with our partner countries on key development issues.
The Commission does not provide budget support to all developing countries. Governments in the developing world need to satisfy eligibility criteria covering macroeconomic stability and public financial management, and to implement agreed national or sectoral policies in order to qualify for budget support.
Why does the EU use Budget support modality to deliver aid?
Budget support is one of a number of aid instruments used by the Commission alongside projects and pooling of funds with other donors. It intends to overcome weaknesses of the traditional project approach, such as (a) financing specific projects for a short period of time without ensuring sustainability or consistency, (b) high transaction costs for partner countries and (c) the setting-up of parallel systems for implementing aid. Budget support improves the predictability of aid and is used as a means of fostering partner countries' ownership of development policies and reform processes. Since the governments are accountable to their own institutions for the spending of the budget, this form of support strengthens national accountability bodies, such as Parliament, Supreme Audit Institutions and also civil society.
What are the main elements of today's proposal?
Budget support will continue to be an important instrument of EU development cooperation, but the Communication also aims at modernising the budget support approach in order to improve its quality, value for money and impact. Budget support will strengthen the contractual partnerships with developing countries in order to build and consolidate democracies, pursue sustainable economic growth and eradicate poverty.
Budget support will be provided as a driver for change to address five key development challenges and objectives:
To support these objectives, the European Commission will provide three different categories of budget support programmes:
Budget support will focus more on strengthening core government systems; partner countries should be committed to inform the EU of allegations of possible fraud or corruption. The Commission will also place more emphasis on accountability and budget transparency of a partner country with a new eligibility criterion. In addition, the Commission will strengthen its approach to assessing and managing risks and give stronger emphasis to domestic resource mobilisation (e.g. fair and transparent tax systems and natural resources), so that partner countries are able to reduce aid dependency and finally finance their own development.
Budget support can help fragile states to ensure vital state functions, to support the transition towards development, to promote governance, human rights and democracy and to deliver basic services to the population. The decision to provide EU budget support should be taken case by case, based on an assessment of the expected benefits and potential risks.
The Commission also proposes to strengthen the coordination with EU Member States and to work towards a single "EU Good Governance and Development Contract". The EU coordinated approach aims at increasing the effectiveness of budget support in contributing to development and reform policies, and providing coherent and consistent responses to challenges encountered.
How is the use of budget support controlled?
Budget support is only disbursed when eligibility criteria and additional agreed conditions on results are met. Therefore, it is subject to strict and rigorous systems of control to regularly monitor progress towards clearly defined targets. Should serious concerns be raised on the use of Budget Support during a given programme, the Commission can freeze disbursements and has done so in the past. In Malawi, for instance, the Commission withheld its payments in the second half of 2009 pending the resolution of issues relating to macroeconomic performance and budget management. The Commission concluded that the disbursements could be resumed in March 2010 following the approval of the IMF programme review and improvements in budget management.
Figures on EU budget support
Over the period 2003-2009, the European Commission made budget support commitments totalling over €13 billion (about 25 % of all commitments in this period). About 56% of commitments were made in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, 24% in neighbourhood countries, 8% in Asia, 6% in Latin America and 5% in South Africa. In 2010, overall budget support commitments of the Commission amounted to €1.96 billion.
Examples of successful use of budget support
This programme has endorsed Rwanda's Strategy agricultural transformation (2009-2012) and supports in particular decentralization of the agricultural sector, food security and environmental sustainability. There has been remarkable progress (exceeding the original targets) in crop intensification, increasing the production of key food security crops, and soil conservation. Various measures have been taken to successfully tackle the serious problem of land erosion in Rwanda.
For more information
The full text of the Communications can be found at …
Consultation on the future of development policy
Consultation on the instrument of budget support:
Website of EuropeAid:
Website of the European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs
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In this episode, Cassell's Corner podcast host Tommy Cassell talks with three seniors from the undefeated Natick girls soccer team and their coach, James Blackwell.
Senior captains Hannah Lederman and Taylor Brown, and fellow senior Rachel Jasinski shared their experience playing together and the bond that they have formed as teammates. Natick is currently 16-0 and will hold the No. 1 seed in the Division 1 South sectional playoffs.
"They are a special group," third-year coach Blackwell told Cassell. "They are mature beyond their years. They are invested."
Blackwell talked with Cassell and his players about what each contributes to the team as well as what makes this group of seniors unique.
Blackwell, who won a state title with the Weston girls soccer team before joining Natick, also coaches for the FC Stars, a club soccer team out of Acton. He is hoping to coach the Natick team to a state final this year.
Last season, the Redhawks went 16-1 in the regular season and didn't allow a goal in the postseason but ended up losing 1-0 in penalty kicks in the Div. 1 South sectional final to Whitman-Hanson.
Brown has missed the entire season with a torn meniscus and ACL, which she injured in the playoffs last year. She talked to Cassell about how she has worked to stay close to the team and to contribute her senior year despite being unable to take the field.
Lederman and Jasinski are both Bay State Conference All-Stars this season.
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So I've been pretty quiet on here for awhile, and there's definitely a reason for that. I've been going through quite possibly the hardest point in my life financially.
Several months ago, I was living with two roommates, one of whom was amazing and the best friend you could possibly have, and I'll always feel like I've let him down in some ways. Our third roommate just disappeared one day, leaving me and Danzer to pay for a 3 bedroom apartment 2 ways. At the same time, work at my freelance gig slowed down, so much so that I wasn't able to make any of my 4 credit card payments. I was barely able to pay my original rent that was split 3 ways, so Danzer unfortunately had to cover for me on that, which I still owe him for. So that was the first month, already owing money to friends and credit cards.
The next month Danzer got an amazing job offer back in Colorado and had to move away. I'm hoping he's doing well, he deserves to have something good happen in his life, as much time and energy he's put into helping other people. So this just left me in the 3 bedroom until move out, with almost no money. I knew I was going to have to get another job on top of my regular freelance gig.
Let's back up a bit. This wasn't the first time I knew I was going to have to get a second job, I had been trying for several months before this. I went to an interview at one company, a hiring event, and if I didn't go to that hiring event, I'd have to wait another month for the next one. I needed the job as soon as I could, except the day of the hiring event, I had a massive migraine. Nausea, piercing headache, everything. During the interview, I could feel the nausea welling up. In the middle of the interview, I knew I had to use the restroom, cause I could feel it. The interviewer escorted me to the restroom, but it was too late. In front of the interviewer, I vomited. Probably the most embarrassing thing to happen to me in a professional environment. Then I had another interview, another job that I really needed and thought I had it in the bag. Turns out, I didn't get that job either.
So with my move out date approaching, I needed something. I didn't have the money to move in somewhere else, and I decided maybe I should spend a month or two back in Dallas with my family to build back up some funds, and I really didn't want to do that. At this point, I have 4 credit cards each 3 months late on any payments. It was around this time that I got accepted for a job at IKEA. It didn't pay much, and was only seasonal, but it was something. What it also meant, was I needed to find a way to stay in Austin.
Here was my situation, I needed to get a storage unit to store all my stuff, I needed to find a couch to surf on with a friend, and I needed to find someone to look after Jade, my cat. Each of these was a tiny struggle, but I found something, except all of them, obviously, were temporary.
Let's go back a couple months here as well. Around the time all this was happening, my car's transmission started acting up. The car has always had transmission problems, but this was worse. I avoided driving it as much as possible, but I still needed to drive it for my IKEA job. After staying with my friend Noah for several weeks, I felt like I had enough saved up to move into a new place. Except with 4 credit cards now 4 months behind on payments, my credit score was so low, no apartment complex would accept me.
And then my car died.
Turns out my alternator had died and took my battery with it. This cost my over $500. I could pay it, sure, but I really needed that money. At the same time, the person looking after my cat couldn't keep her any more, so I needed to find a new place for her. She went to three different places over the course of a week. Then I went and couch surfed with a few other friends, Greg and Katie, so I wouldn't be to big of a burden on Noah.
At this point, the only thing I could afford was student housing south of the river, extremely far away from my IKEA job, but it was all I had. Unfortunately, after fees and everything, I would only have enough money to move in, and then I'd be left with nothing for two weeks waiting on more money. The student housing took forever to send me the lease, so by the time I sent it in, it was apparently past the due date, so they then inform me, two days before moving in, that they don't have a room for me. They try to have me sublease through another student trying to move out, but it would be an additional fee.I can't do that additional fee. Nontheless, I agree to meet up with the guy to look at the apartment. It's a 4 bedroom with 3 other random roommates, and this place was... a...mess... When I say it was a mess, I mean there were a few crt televisions covered in garbage bags just sitting around the living room area. The place reeked of weed. The kitchen had old food caked on almost every surface, the lid of the trash can was greasy and sticky to the touch, and the bathroom was brown in every corner and crevice. I was physically repulsed. here's the problem, this was my last chance. I ran out of couches to surf on, Jade couldn't stay where she was for long, and I needed something to survive.
And then my car died.
This time, it was my power steering.I reached the end of my rope. I had to make a decision.
I decided that I needed to leave Austin. Not permanently,I plan to move back when I can, but for now, I'm staying with my parents in Dallas, still working my freelance editing gig. I had to let IKEA know that I couldn't put my 2 weeks notice in, as I had to leave Austin that day. My parents came down to help me get all my things, at least everything that could fit in their SUV. Just the other day, I rented a car tow and my neighbor came down with her truck so we could get my car and the rest of my things. My car is still in the driveway, still broke down.
The past few months have almost been non stop stress, not just from all the big things, but there were countless other things that happened over the course of the several months that, near the end, was causing me to have a nervous break down almost every day. And don't even get me started on the situation with the Let's Play Community. I don't think I've ever cried as much or as often as I have the past couple months.
And so, now I'm in Dallas, away from all my friends I made in Austin, who have been extremely supportive of me. I'm getting better, slowly, I just need to swallow my pride a little and keep working towards getting my debts paid off (4 credit cards 5 months late each, and all my taxes from last year, which I still haven't paid any on yet). Once I get caught up, I plan to come back to Austin. Until then, I need to not stress as much as I have been the past several months.
To everyone that helped me out, let me stay on their couch, watched my cat, gave me advice, helped me get a job, hung out on days I needed it, gave me a hug, scolded me for being stupid, sent me money, helped me carry heavy things, or supported me in any way over the past several months, I can't thank you enough. I have the best people for friends, and I feel bad that I've left you behind in Austin, but I plan to come back. Thank you, all of you.
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It's Hard to reach for the Stars When You're Drowning
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
So I've been pretty quiet on here for awhile, and there's definitely a reason for that. I've been going through quite possibly the hardest point in my life financially.
Saturday Update! Winston Dance Party
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
Been struggling financially, trying to find a new place to live, trying to find a steady job, etc. But hey, still making content, even if it has been slow going the past couple weeks.Anyways, here's the videos this week!
Friday (Saturday) Update! Dead by Slender
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
So let's get back in the groove of posting weekly updates again, shall we. Started playing Heroes of the Storm, mostly to get the Overwatch skins, except now I'm just playing heroes and not Overwatch. That'll probably change once the anniversary event starts. Also, Lawbreakers is not a good game, imo.
Also, hey, new killer showed up in Dead by Daylight, so us at The Lone Few did a let's play in it.
We also went back in time and tried out a game mode in Gmod called Stop It Slender.
Look out for more stuff in the coming weeks!
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We did this last year and had a great turn out, and since then there's been a ton of new creators joining that channel, and many of us have been collaborating and helping each other out all year, all without ever meeting each other.
So this year at RTX, let's do it all again. I'm going to be speaking with the place to try and reserve some big seating area (we kinda just took over a whole floor last year) so we can all meet up, grab pizza, and actually talk to each other face to face instead of over discord/skype/etc.
Everyone is welcome to come by!
Friday July 7th at 8:30pm on 6th Street
Ropollo's Pizza
316 E 6th St, Austin, TX
Can't wait to see you guys there!
EDIT: We were originally gonna meet at 7pm, but most of us are gonna be at the Werewolves panel at RTX, so we'll meet after that panel at 8:30.
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The Lone Few
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
So a lot of you may have noticed that I haven't been posting videos on my channel recently. Well, there's a reason for that. I've been brought over to help make content on the channel for The Lone Few. You may know them from their awesome GTA machinimations and Straight Outta RT from a while back. You may also know them from being in pretty much all my multicam videos for the past few months. With them already showing up in all my content, we figured why not move stuff over to their channel. 11,000 subscibers compared to my 188.
So does this mean I'm abandoning my channel? In a way, kinda? The vast majority of my stuff will now be over on The Lone Few, but if there's ever something that may not fit their formats, I may still decide to do it and put it on my channel, but still.
So yeah, go on over to the Lone Few's channel and hit that subscribe button!
Now let's play catch up on videos since I haven't posted here in a hot minute.
I even did some voice work for one of our GTA machinimations:
Featured User! Let me introduce myself
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
Oh hey, featured user! Thanks! I should probably introduce myself. My name is Phoenix, I've been a part of the AH Community/Let's Play Community making videos and appearing in videos since November 2015. I also create stuff on my own YouTube channel where I make let's plays of my own. In my past, I used to direct short films and webseries of my own creation, of which I will occasionally share stories about here. I try to post once a week with all the content I've been in. I live in Austin, so if there's any Austin community members, remember that the RT Austin group has weekly meetups at Torchy's where I try to always show up to. (You may even be able to see me in the background of some early Million Dollars But episodes)
I think this may be my first time as featured user. This profile was started in 2010, but I have another profile that I had long forgotten the password of that I made in 2005, you can even mind it online with all my shitty, horrible, high school annoyances on (amon_knives). I was what the kids now call and edgelord. So yeah, it's awesome to get featured user!
So, sharing a few highlights of what I do, check them out. And even though the channel is on hiatus, go subscribe to the Let's Play Community and help us raise community interest in bringing the channel back!
From the Dust
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
This was a fun project I worked on quite a few years ago. Still one of my favorites too, since these shoots were as bare bones as you can get.
I didn't write this webseries, that was my good friend, Kenneth Trombley, who had this as his baby. He co-directed and produced this, while I acted as director/cinematographer/editor. In the second arc, we even had Skyler McIntosh, an amazing actress who has gone on to be a voice actress with Funimation, recently voicing the lead role in Izetta The Last Witch.
Most of the time, the only crew we had were the actors, myself, kenneth, and a sound person. Some days we may have had more, but for the most part, we were filming extremely simply.
We never finished season 1, in fact, we filmed the first 3 episodes, then a year and a half later filmed the next three episodes, and that's all there is. We intended to have two more three part arcs. The next one was going to see them find an underground bunker and find an insane guy killing off survivors. I was gonna go for a very "Alien" type vibe. Then the finale arc was gonna have a character very similar to King Ezekiel from Walking Dead, and then tease some things for a season 2, including answering some questions about Shepard's wife, whose memory has been haunting Shepard throughout all the episodes.
So yeah, this is likely all there will be of From the Dust, so enjoy:
On the Sale of Swords
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
I posted one of my previous short films here awhile ago, and thought I'd share another one.
A lot of people don't know I used to do a lot of work making my own short films and webseries stuff. I since stopped, mostly because of a lack of funds. I just don't have to money to pay people, and I'm not in college any more, so I'm definitely not gonna be that guy who has people work for him for "exposure".
I previously told the story of my short film "Witchbane: Hunters", which I still hope to make into a feature film one day, or at least a graphic novel. You can see that here:
This time, I want to tell you about my medieval piece, "On the Sale of Swords".
The story is about an arrogant bard who gets arrested and is being taken as a prisoner to a noble he's insulted. He's being taken there by one of the noble's knights, a cruel man, and a hired sellsword, who only has gold on his mind.
We filmed in a paintball park in Flower Mound, TX, in a dried up creek bed. We used stunt swords and actual knight gear. The actors who played the Knight and the Sellsword were a teacher and student of an actual medieval sword fighting school for Fiori de Liberi, and actual medieval sword technique, and they used a lot of those moves in the choreography. They choreographed the fight really well, and I wish i was a better filmmaker to capture it properly.
So enjoy On the Sale of Swords.
Next time I'll show you guys a webseries that I never finished with a friend of mine, "From the Dust".
Weekly Update! Salt and Hitmen
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
Got a few videos this week, and I'm not exactly in all of them, but they are connected.
First up, on my channel, we wrapped up Golf with Friends in the most insane way we could think of. Random shapes, low gravity, and bouncy floors. We all slowly lost our sanity.
Then I did a collaboration with my friends @KyleDoesGTA and @aclarkislost of the Lone Few. Kyle challenged me and Austin who have never played Hitman to see who could be the better hit man. We both did really poorly, and it's hilarious. So check out the video on my channel, then check out Austin's run on The Lone Few's channel:
Now, this next video, I'm not in, but i wanted people to go watch it. This is the first of a short video series game show that @ghostsol created for the Let's Play Community that unfortunately didn't get off the ground. Wish there could be more episodes.
I haven't been in anything co-commentary-wise, but i show up playing the games in the background of a few. You should go watch everything on there, anyways, just as a general rule. :P
Weekly Update! Sharks and Lone Few!
2 years agoPhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
Ok, so yeah, I've been slacking on my videos. Either way, new video this week. Deptch! Where we kill each other as sharks.... I'm noticing a trend in my videos recently...
Then over on The Lone Few's channel, I was a guest in their classic game mode Hole in the Plane in GTA.
I'm not in the video, but I wanted to share the final Plot Twist episode. @iSayWhat has been an awesome community manager and I'm sad to see him go, but glad that he's working at his dream job.
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tonyski change is scary
1 year ago
Are you the Austin in Austin from The Lone Few?
PhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
1 year ago
I am not, that would be Aclarkislost. I am Phoenix from the channel, though.
2 years ago
Congrats on the feature!~
Joron093 Keeper of The Forges
2 years ago
Happy FU day!
Ratatoskr Keeper of Logics
2 years ago
Have a grand FU!
Riles Austin, Texas
3 years ago
Holy shit you're in Hachie??
PhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
3 years ago
Yeah man, you nearby?
Riles Austin, Texas
3 years ago
yeah dude, DeSoto. I'm in hachie all the time lol
PhoenixFilms The Lone Few-Austin, TX
3 years ago
Cool, we should meet up sometime and do some co-coms eventually.
Riles Austin, Texas
3 years ago
Yeah dude. Skype is RilesLives. Hmu whenever you got video
Cinomari Keeper of N00bs
3 years ago
TY for the add! Love your YouTube. :
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Interesting stuff, Ry. What influences you?
Sam is basically right, he's just cranky.
Gauph we need to get you making a point and click adventure game. All we need are your crazy backdrops and characters with some simple animations. It'll b a HUGE HIT I guarantee
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We conquered classic mashed potatoes a long time ago. But with all the delicious variations out there, our work is far from done. So we took on a beloved restaurant staple -- garlic mashed potatoes. The result? Taste and see! Ingredients: 1 head of garlic 1 tsp. olive oil 1 medium-sized russet potato (about 12 oz.) 5 cups cauliflower florets (about 1 head) 3 tbsp. fat-free half & half 2 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown) 1/2 tsp. salt, or more to taste Optional: black pepper, chopped chives Directions: Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Remove papery outer layer from garlic, leaving skins around the cloves intact. Slice off the top of the garlic head, 1/4 - 1/2 inch, exposing the tops of the cloves. Place garlic on a piece of foil, drizzle with oil, and use your fingers to coat. Wrap foil tightly around garlic, enclosing it completely. Place in a baking pan. Bake garlic in the oven for about 40 minutes, until soft enough to mash. Set aside to slightly cool. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to a boil on the stove. While waiting for the water to boil, peel and cube the potato. Add potato and cauliflower to boiling water. Return to a boil, and then reduce heat to medium. Cook until potato and cauliflower are very tender, 15 - 20 minutes. Drain water and transfer potato and cauliflower to a large bowl; set aside. Once foil-wrapped garlic is cool enough to handle, unwrap garlic and remove cloves; discard skin. Add the soft cloves to the large bowl. To the bowl, add half & half, butter, and salt. Mash it all together with a potato masher, until completely blended. If you like, season to taste with pepper and additional salt. If needed, bring to desired temperature in the microwave or oven. Top with chopped chives, if you like, and enjoy! MAKES 5 SERVINGS
Serving Size: about 3/4 cup (1/5th of recipe) Calories: 120 Fat: 3g Sat Fat: 0.5g Sodium: 315mg Carbs: 20.5g Fiber: 3.5g Sugars: 3.5g Protein: 4g PointsPlus® value 3* SmartPoints® value 3*
One of the most popular and hard-to-resist side dishes EVER is mashed potatoes. Even more irresistible? Creamy, buttery, roasted-garlic mashed potatoes. Sadly, these smashed spuds have pretty heavy calorie and fat counts. A side order at Outback Steakhouse will cost you 305 calories and 17g fat; at Applebee's, 330 calories and 18g fat. That's especially loony since it's just an accompaniment to the main part of your meal! For our version, we used our go-to trick of mashing in cauliflower with our potatoes. We also added some real roasted garlic... that we roasted ourselves. It's so easy, and you can totally do it too. So the next time you're scanning a menu and see garlic mashed potatoes, have a chuckle and think about how you JUST had guilt-free garlic mashed potatoes... at home.
Serving Size: 1 side order (about 3/4 cup) Calories: 283 Fat: 14.5g Sodium: 776mg Carbs: 34g Fiber: 2.5g Sugars: 3g Protein: 4g PointsPlus® value 8*
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American Scientific Publishers (ASP) - LAUNCHES NEW JOURNAL "ADVANCED CARBON"
ASP has recently launched its new journal called "Advanced Carbon" which is a peer reviewed multidisciplinary international journal publishing original and high-quality articles, short communications, critical reviews, case studies etc, covering a wide range of topics in carbon related science and engineering.
Authors can get the submission guidelines and submit their manuscript at http://www.aspbs.com/ac.htm
No publication fees.
The authors will be informed on the decision within four (4) weeks after submission, and following acceptance, the article will be published in the journal's next issue.
Impact factor of this journal is awaited.
Looking forward to your submission.
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Welcome all,
iSeS Egypt Company in cooperation with Nakaa Nanotechnology Network are organizing the international Conference:
"Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Spectroscopy: tools of success in the coming Era"
25 -27 October 2013 in Cairo, Egypt
The conference will take place over 3 days, and will be divided into sections that allow focusing on the conference topics.
Call for Oral and Poster Session Abstracts
The Conference will consist of invited oral presentations, oral presentations and poster presentations selected from abstracts. We are now accepting applications for oral and poster presentations.
Authors will be notified of the selection results. Submissions for presentations should include an abstract of no more than 350 words
Written in Times new roman size 12
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A reception to view and discuss posters will be held during the first day of the conference.
Abstracts should support one of the topics listed below:
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Deadline to send abstracts to email@example.com is 10 September 2013.
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Welcome ,
We would like to inform you about the new updates concerning the Nanotechnology international workshop I WIN Egypt 2013
1- The workshop will be held in Cataract pyramids 5 stars hotel in Giza in great Cairo, Egypt.
Cataract Pyramids Resort has unique location, beautiful panorama of the great Pyramids, surrounded with farms and green grace peaceful.
The resort, 5 star international standard hotel, is located on the road to Sakkara towards the oldest made structure - The step Pyramids of Sakkara, and less than 40 minutes from Cairo International airport.
Shuttle Buses will be available for Egyptian attendees for 7 pounds per person per day ( Children up to 10 years old are free) to transport them from Cairo University main door at 7: 30 am to the Hotel at the beginning of the conference days and back again to Cairo University at the end of the days.
Our conference guests and attendees will all enjoy the Open buffet Coffee break and the great open buffet lunch in one of the greatest restaurants in the Hotel every day during the conference days.
For any one who would like to book accommodation in the hotel can book through us and contact the hotel.
Single room for foreigner/day costs 34$ including service and tax
Single room for egyptian/ day costs 200 EP including service and tax
For more information about the venue, please visit the hotel website:
2- Some of our speakers and poster presenters have been published in the workshop websitewww.naqaaevents.webs.com and more speakers and poster presenters will be published later on.
3-If you are interested to share your abstract in the conference, you can still send your abstract till 23 March 2013.
4- For Foreign PhD students and Master students, we present 10 partial scholarships on both poster and oral presentations where registration fees will be discounted by 40% This is will be applied for those who will sent their abstracts from today till 23 March 2013 only on basis of first received first takes the scholarship
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As all advisors know, it's one thing to provide clients with appropriate advice and another thing to actually get them to follow that advice.
In this series of reports, Investment Advisor columnist and psychotherapist Olivia Mellan and financial behavior specialist Kol Birke of Commonwealth Financial Network address some common scenarios that advisors face in getting their clients to follow through on their advice. This advice for advisors flowed out of a web seminar hosted by Investment Advisor and ThinkAdvisor editor Jamie Green late last year.
As baby boomers continue to age, a scenario that advisors will increasingly have to address is the transition of wealth to the younger generation. But what if you don't have a relationship with the kids?
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Jamie Green: Suppose that one of your biggest clients, a widowed business owner, has died. His children are now selling the business to support their own lifestyles, which you have long considered profligate. And although you've always been proud of the service you provided to their father, they've fired you and hired another advisor. What should you have done?
Kol Birke: We can look at this through two lenses: through what you can do with your current clients and what you can do with the children of those clients.
I'll start with current clients, because you already have a relationship with them. That's a great lever point, especially since the question is what you should have done earlier.
It's no surprise that the best time to instill good financial habits is when kids are young. Even if it feels like you're stepping over some boundaries, you might want to try challenging your clients to mentor the kids financially. The interesting thing is that there may be a tug-of-war about this going on in the client's brain, too. One side is saying, "I don't want to have these conversations with my kids," and the other side is saying, "But maybe it's a good idea to have these conversations." If you push really hard about having those conversations, the client's brain is going to pull harder on not wanting to have the conversations. you're just going to lose.
Instead, what if you say something like "As a financial advisor, I obviously have to recommend preparing your kids by having these conversations with them. But I get it; it's a lot easier not to. You're so busy; your kids have their own interests. What would happen if you didn't have these conversations?"
Your clients may tell you that they know they should have the conversations but they just don't know how, or they can't find the time, or they don't think their kids would be interested or they don't know how to engage their kids. Once they start telling you these things, it means that they're pulling in the other direction and they want you to help them out. That's when you can join them on the right side.
Olivia Mellan: Meeting with the whole family regularly is the best way to get the younger generation involved. After doing intergenerational retreats with wealthy families, I have seen that it's very important to open the lines of communication, to have the older generation talk about what the money meant to them and where it came from. That's why I encourage people to write ethical wills to their loved ones, sharing their life lessons, their mistakes and their blessings.
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It took Democrats a while to warm up to super PACs, but their glee over 2012 is — for now — eclipsing any moral qualms about big money eroding democracy, and they're already busy at work courting their wealthiest supporters and planning even more ambitious efforts for future elections.
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Shortly after Election Day, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and top White House aides spoke at a three-day secret meeting of major Democratic donors and officials from liberal outside groups gearing up for 2014, POLITICO has learned.
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The three-day conference — the annual winter conference of the Democracy Alliance, an exclusive club composed of some of the biggest liberal donors — at Washington's W Hotel featured presentations by top Obama campaign and administration officials including Mitch Stewart, Matthew Barzun, Gene Sperling and Jon Carson.
Democracy Alliance donors gave or pledged more than $ 14 million to super PACs and secret-money nonprofits this year after a vigorous debate about whether Democrats should participate in the wave of unlimited political spending that Republicans rode to control of the House of Representatives in 2010. Some of the left's biggest traditional donors argued that joining the big money fight would be akin to condoning the recent court decisions that sparked it — most notably the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which Democrats up to and including Obama decried as facilitating a corporate takeover of democracy. They either abstained entirely or were slow to open their checkbooks.
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For those following �La Viva,� Florida�s 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leon�s landing in this country, a trip to St. Marks is a must! Next to Pensacola and St. Augustine, St. Marks ranks as one of the most important historical places in the state. It�s hard to believe the number of important people who spent time or passed through this secluded and historic location over the centuries.
EDITOR�S NOTE: The state celebrates �Viva La Florida� this year. This is the first in a series of articles on the early conquistadores, Panfilo de Narvaez and Hernando de Soto.
For those following �La Viva,� Florida�s 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de Leon�s landing in this country, a trip to St. Marks is a must! Next to Pensacola and St. Augustine, St. Marks ranks as one of the most important historical places in the state. It�s hard to believe the number of important people who spent time or passed through this secluded and historic location over the centuries.
Their names included Panfilo de Narvaez, Hernando de Soto�s men, Alvar Nuniz Cabeza de Vaca, Andrew Jackson and even the Indian maiden Millie Francis. Their presence or that of others seems to linger as one strolls around the well-kept park and burial grounds at this National Historic Landmark.
Eons ago during the Paleo-Indian period, large glaciers covered one-fourth of this country. Florida was twice its size and stretched far into the Gulf. The Native Americans who were here hunted wild animals by slaying them with spears near their watering holes.
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As time passed, the Indians built different types of mounds and learned to make and bake pottery. They fished, trapped and began growing vegetables, such as corn, beans, pumpkins and squash. But the Indians soon began dying from the new diseases that the Spanish and other seamen brought into this country, such as smallpox, typhoid, influenza and measles.
Thousands of the other Indians were captured and sold into slavery.
At the beginning of the 16thcentury, a feeling of wild adventure beckoned many to the unexplored wilderness known as Florida. After hearing about the discoveries of Christopher Columbus and Ponce de Leon, young men and adventurers were ready to give up their homes, countries, families, wives and loved ones to seek the great treasures of the new land.
Those sailing around Florida and through the Gulf to St. Marks (about 23 miles south of Tallahassee) approached by way of Apalachee Bay and the St. Marks River in Florida�s Big Bend area. Others reached St. Marks by following trails.
Narvaez and de Soto were two early Spanish conquistadors who came to the New World in the early 1500s within 12 years of each other. According to Michael Gannon�s The New History of Florida, Narvaez was �red bearded, one-eyed and deep voiced� and credited with helping to conquer Cuba.
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Both Narvaez and de Soto departed for Florida with big dreams of wealth after early Spaniards (including de Soto) returned with huge amounts of gold from the Aztec Indians in Mexico and the Inca Empire in Peru.
The Spanish king demanded that all his explorers submit to and show their willingness to adopt the Catholic Christian faith. In the proclamation they gave it stated �With the aid of God to my own sword, I shall march upon you to compel your obedience.�
Narvaez�s expedition took place almost a hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
In 1527, Narvaez, 57, received permission from Spanish King Charles (Carlos) V to mount an expedition to settle and rule land from northern Mexico to the Florida peninsula. Alvar Nunez de Vaca, another explorer, accompanied Narvaez. He served as one of Narvaez�s chief officers and treasurer of the expedition.
Narvaez set sail from Spain with 600 Spanish adventurers, colonists and laborers in eight ships to explore Florida.
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In Cuba and the West Indies islands, a large number of Narvaez�s soldiers and adventurers deserted him. When the conquistador landed in Florida on April 14, 1528 near present-day Tampa Bay, his army had dwindled to 400 and 45 horses. When they began their expedition they were encased in glittering coats of armor and mail as protection from arrows and javelins. They mounted their powerful war horses (many of which were worthless from badly buffeted storms on the voyage) and had a pack of bloodhounds following at their command.
As Narvaez prepared to strike out on his great adventure, searching for gold and silver, he ordered one of his lieutenants, Carballo, 100 of his men and several married women to cruise along the coast and search for a harbor. He foolishly sent the ships that carried his food, wine and supplies along with Carballo. The plan called for them to make their way north by boat and meet Narvaez further up along the coast.
De Vaca opposed this move and suggested remaining together while waiting to learn of the possible dangers ahead. He advised Narvaez to stay with his ships as they plied along to the west and searched for a good harbor, surrounded by fertile land. After they were settled they could begin making incursions into the interior.
But Narvaez was consumed with thoughts of gold and glory. He concentrated on conquest and the treasures he expected to find that would make him a wealthy man. Since de Vaca could not get Narvaez to change his mind, he remained with him.
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