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Queen International N. 66 2008
Tom Kroboth was born in Vienna, Austria, 8 March 1969.
He began the job of hairdresser from below: in 1985 Tom Kroboth began an apprenticeship as acconciatore with Intercoiffeur Ossig Vienna, which ends in 1988. In 1990 begins vocational education specialist in the field and dell'avanguardia show with the exhibition Grecht Vienna.
His staff not only leads the exhibition Gerhard Meier of Monaco, but Vidal Sasson also to Hamburg. During the following 6 years he was taught the only Technical cutting Vidal Sasson and, after two years, was also appointed Director Creative. In this new job is responsible development of the trend, shows, international seminars and internal training. Since 2000, Tom Kroboth works as an artist of hairstyles and makeup free-lance with BIGOUDI to Hamburg and you create a name in fashion national and international advertising and media productions. Above is responsible for the production of countless photo for Gard. A number of events fashion, for example Chanel, Roberto Cavalli, Gucci, Strenesse and Vivienne Westwood, Tom Kroboth convinces successfully look at and with modern look by walkway as well as with individual styles.
It is distinguished by easily revive, reinterpreting and developing styles hairstyles classical belonging to different decades in a modern way. Even artists recognized internationally as David Copperfield, Heike Makatsch, Liza Minelli, and Eva Padberg Jil Sander receive advice and recommendations of Kroboth style. In 2004 Tom Kroboth is joined Aveda and was appointed Director Creative of 'Aveda Lifestyle Salon & Spa Berlin. It is responsible for providing direction creative shop flag of Aveda.
Kroboth further becomes known internationally when he was appointed Artistic Director of Aveda August 15, 2006.
In close collaboration with Antoinette Beenders, the Creative Director of Aveda, and David Adams, Technical Director of Artistic Aveda, becomes responsible for the style and training of Aveda Lifestyle salons. Moreover, is at the head of creative direction of European Academies of Aveda and operates as Representative style for Aveda in Europe.
The brand's most exclusive career of Tom Kroboth is without doubt its success to German Hairdressing Awards. In 2005 Vanguard wins in the categories and Men, the following year in the categories Vanguard, Press and Women of Northern Ireland. Again, in 2007, shaking in his hands as the trophy winning in the categories and Vanguard Print. Vincendo the prize for Vanguard the third consecutive time, is the second designer admitted all'agognato Exhibition of Fame, honouring hairdressers high-ranking industry German hairstyles. Also Kroboth internationally convinces with his ideas. From AIPP Awards in 2007 emerge as the best hairdresser of Vanguard and won the second place in the category Best of Men. In the summer of 2008 is rewarded as the best of acconciatore world with the Great Trophy AIPP 2007-2008, thus following the footsteps of some of the stylists more important.
What interested you at the beginning of your profession? When I was a child, I used to dress and cut the hair of dolls for my sister, something that you obviously did not like…
How were your early years in this ?
I worked as an apprentice in the salon hairstyles classic Vienna and I attended a number of selections in Austria ... Where do your ideas of style? I take inspiration virtually everywhere -- fashion, music, art, history, economy, roads -- And while I'm traveling.
About admire today? I admire all the designers who constantly improve their techniques, ideas and collections. Please tell your forecasts mode to this season.
I am sure the short cut back again fashion as can be seen in gangways all events fashion, it is a trend also known that among my clients.
How do you think that will change the styles that create in the future?
I do not think that my styles change in future, but I like to inspire other designers to continue to work developing the their ideas, techniques and creativity.
How do you keep updated with the latest Creative trends?
I supervised the latest magazines fashion, bridges and the cinema. However are no longer so attentive to trends, rather I prefer to focus my attention on the perception of hair.
What is fashion for you?
Fashion is a way to express personality someone and offers many opportunities to be creative… What some believe to be the main differences between the work of European designers? I consider Germany a great place to Regarding the technical professional cut and style, a modern way to create hairstyles. London is more focused on hairstyle .. Italy and Spain can be considered specialists of long hair dell'asciugatura and a hair dryer. However I think that in this Europe continues to grow together…
What you passionate about this profession?
I love making people happy! What is your guiding philosophy? Before learning the techniques and how to apply them, then you can become creative.
What results vai most proud of? Having won recognition in designer worldwide.
What's your secret to make happy customers? Listen, listen, listen… What are your personal goals for the future? I look and see what the future has in store. Of course I dream, who knows…
How do you see the woman of today?
I miss the woman who dressed and appeared fantastic as it was in the 40s or '60. The times are different but women should be proud to be female and sexy. However, I believe that the trend is a changing some hours, fortunately.
What are the main differences between a acconciatore and a designer of success? Only a acconciatore that is truly passionate its work will be a successful fashion designer. What is the secret of your success? I put great passion in what I'm doing! What gives you more inspiration?
Discuss my ideas with unusual friends.
In your opinion, you must travel to stay at the top of your profession?
For me travel is very important.
When assisto events in various fashion parts of the world can work with best stylists and I learn a lot from them.
What is the country later in absolute in the field of style?
I love London since draw so much inspiration from this city simply walking along the streets or in clubs going.
What was the most important satisfaction you received during your career? The first time I met Vidal Sassoon. And of course win the Grand Trophy AIPP: that great honour to see my name close to all those fantastic winners previous!
How denomineresti your style?
For my look at me like consider hair as a material, just as an artist. For more mainstream look I focus on technical and professional perfect combining them with beauty.
As the relationship with your employees? Can I get success only with a group strong and professional.
What tendi to recommend more frequently your customers, cut or color? And what you ask most frequently? Prediligo cuts. However recommend to concentrate in either thing.
How often do your customers come from you? Depends. I work with clients who are every six weeks, others who come every three months. However a good cut should never be really off form.
Imagine that you are asked to divide your customers into categories: what is the category that gives you more satisfaction?
Customers who give me confidence and know that the result will be good. But I feel a great challenge when I'm in front of customers "difficult" (if ever there are): I love them happy!
Do you believe that today is more important for a woman be well dressed or have 'the head-to-place'? The hairstyle: the wearing all day… What is your message to Queen International "?
Learn from the profession dell'acconciatore nothing, keep your eye trained and fai attention to detail.
The urchins of the model need a new form. Hair is gone cut off and there is need more volume inside.
2. Graph the facility - On the domestic front, layers are increased overlapping layers uniform. Later lengths Graduate overlap a hair shorter in the area of the neck. Strata is well uniform extending from the sides towards the crown.
3. Sezionate a diagonal line from the left on the apex of the head slightly toward the right rear of the center of the ridge. From there created a diagonal line high to the left of the neck and a diagonal line low to the right of the neck. Sezionate the inside from the right Faced above the apex of the head to the tip left ear.
4. On the left side of the neck, creating a deep diagonal line toward the rear. With his head straight, perpendicular distributed and projected to a high angle. Place your fingers and modeled in parallel with the razor. Continue using a line until they reach half the section.
5. Use the line in mid-section as a reference line. Do converge the next rows while positioned your fingers not parallel for an increase in length to the right. Continue through the section.
6. Under the left rear create a vertical line behind the ear. Put your fingers vertically and used the tip of the razor to sculpt segments shorter hair inside the line. Modellate the remaining lengths from top to bottom line parallel to your fingers.
7. Work up to reach the attachment to the right front lines with design Multiple creating a gradual increase in length toward the right.
8. Create a vertical line at the right ear. Put your fingers vertically and modeled in parallel with the razor creating a line. Do hair dall'attaccatura converge toward the front and rear modelled with the razor in parallel. Create a back-row diagonal 1 "(2.5 cm) behind the right ear, do converge lengths forward and modelled with razor parallel with the same line.
9. The design shows a row along the front attachment along the left side. Create vertical stripes on the left side and main lines from one point of origin at.
10. Then, take a line width to 1.25 cm-long attachment front left. Modellate razor with vertical stripes arranged individual and hair at 90 ° to create short lengths uniform. Work from the front to the bases. 11. Scolpite the section left internal taking lines with vertical projection 90 degrees and your fingers placed near the tips. Modellate with razor the Media section up on the tip lengths to create well-structured. Scolpite what remains of the view.
12. Use a guide length by the crown and create a vertical line dall'apice. Put your fingers for an increase in length to his forehead.
Modellate with razor parallel to your fingers. Use a reference line, create a main line and work towards the right side.
13. The design shows the disposition of an off-center triangle at the internal right and braids lights in the crown. Both the section that the lights were pre-schiariti using lightening powder to 30 volumes (9%). 14. Rinse and dry hair. Create a strip towards the front of Section pre-cleared. Apply the color blonde clear Standing at 20 volumes (6%).
15. Create another diagonal. Apply the color permanent golden with 10 volumes (3%).
16. Apply the color with golden Standing 10 volumes (3%) to strip later. Then, applied the color blonde level 9 to clear remaining hair this section.
17. Apply the color blonde level 9 clear to the parties intertwined close to crown. Treat, rinsed, applied balm and shampoo before proceeding with the hair.
It is a collection of mood central to Antonio Marras. It alternate strict dress clothes to exquisitely female, rich embroidery and unpredictable drapes, making the romantic gray smoke. The men's suits tighten up the silhouette, while calling it with style, but the rest of the collection is soft on a palette of dove, pink and powder.
It is a balanced synthesis of rigour and sensuality last collection by Donatella Versace. The clothes are snappy, charges in hues from purple to fuchsia to yellow and sartorial design on forms and volumes. In the evening explodes glamour: long dresses in jersey and chiffon in color squillanti as amethyst, cyclamen, yellow neon, embellished by asymmetries and discreet embroidery.
The new collection Blugirl hide wool we rediscover the cardigans and pullovers Norwegian, a cape flakes, the cap jersey with the board fur calzamaglie the big gloves and wool until the elbow. To make life more female contributes the shade of creamy powder, but the sweetness is also reflected in the black. Tornano then dresses dissolved the "Années Fitzgerald" and the golden shoes or with silver straps, but above and opaque stockings under layers of cashmere. To cover their backs a series of delightful cappottini with martingale, waistcoats fur and mantelline.
Here, instead, look for the rich, famous and beautiful un'overdose fallen into sex, drugs and celebrity: Frenkie Morello collection speaks of excesses, screams inconveniences, tells stories of broken lives through symbols and carved lettering on clothes origami. Beyond the game, the collection is built on three-dimensionality lucidissima paint and worked with waves, on sequins used as scales on laserati carvings, on the edges of marabù on taffetà multilayer. Naked of the dark-rebel-pop, the collection is portable: cappottini combined the silhouette, suits with square wrists fur minidresses effect pixels, the trench line in pencil, jackets with the maxi cap, from smoking jackets without sleeves.
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The woman travels Armani, you see, absorbs, is inspired, but maintains its classic style ever. Its short jackets and its soft trousers, his shoes without heel and his clothes on the small bust and wide on skirt, its sober colors and its sophisticated prints. I ethnic references are evident, with a particular eye Orient in a Gipsy. As usual the structures Heads are master packages important and often asymmetric, clothes evening precious trimmings: Instead the new coats evening jersey fasciante but not thick, and shirts silk flounces plissettata color anthracite.
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You can watch the kitchen workers making jian bing through the window of Fortune Dumpling & Bubble Tea, a recent addition to New Chinatown, near Concordia's downtown campus. Olivia Wang and her husband, both originally from Tianjin, in northern China, serve several specialties worth investigating, including some very fresh handmade dumplings. But it's the jian bing that catches the attention. It stretches the definition of sandwich, I know, but it is designed to be eaten with the hands — and as Wang says, "When I explain to Canadian people who ask me how to eat it, I tell them to pick it up like a hamburger or sandwich." A popular street snack (often breakfast) in Tianjin, nearby Beijing and other cities, it's getting more popular outside its homeland, too.
The bread: The crêpe is made with different kinds of flour, one of which is mung bean, which imparts a greenish hue. It's worth taking a sniff to note its subtle herbal perfume. The batter is cooked to order on a circular griddle, like the kind used in France for crêpes. An egg is added to the surface and swished around with a smoothing tool, so that it cooks in a thin layer of yellow and white, coating one side like an omelette.
The spread: The combination of three sauces — a pungent dark paste of fermented wheat, another of tofu, and chili oil homemade by Wang on a daily basis — gives the smear of filling rich sour, tangy and sweet flavours. Black sesame seeds, green onions and cilantro add more aspects. A filo-thin sheet of crisped dough called youtiao is inserted into the middle, and the crêpe is folded multiple times around it before being handed over.
The secret: There could be a whole taxonomy on the crisp or puffy inserts that go into jian bing. On weekends, Fortune replaces the regular wafer with fritters called guo zi, lengths of deep-fried dough sometimes referred to as Chinese doughnut. Jian bing guo zi is a signature dish of Tianjin.
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Battle of the Plains
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|Battle of the Plains
|Conflict: Wainrider/Balchoth War
|Date: T.A. 1856
|Place: Plains south of Mirkwood
|Outcome: Victory for the Wainriders
Gondor, Northmen, Éothéod
Unknown number of Gondorians, Unknown number of Northmen
Unknown number of Wainriders
Probably moderate
The Battle of the Plains was a battle fought in T.A. 1856, in which the armies of Gondor and their allies the Northmen faced the invading Wainriders.
Prior to the Battle
Twenty one years prior to the battle, the Great Plague had killed thousands of people from east to west. The heaviest of these being in the kingdoms of Rhovanion, which lost half its people, and Gondor who lost many thousands as well. They were slow to recover; but their weakness was not tested for a long time. No doubt the Easterlings had been equally afflicted, so that the enemies of Gondor came mainly from the south or from the sea. But when the invasions of the Wainriders began and involved Gondor in wars that lasted for almost a hundred years, the Northmen bore the brunt of the first assaults.
The Battle
Though we know little of what happened we do know that King Narmacil II took a great army north to the plains south of Mirkwood, and gathered all he could of the scattered remnants of the Northmen; but he was defeated, and he himself was slain in the battle as well as Marhari leader of the Northmen, who died in the rearguard. The remnant of his army retreated over Dagorlad into Ithilien.
Aftermath and Repercussions
The battle was a disaster for Gondor. The king was slain, and the lands east of the river Anduin were abandoned, save Ithilien. Narmacil was succeeded by his son Calimehtar.
As for the Northmen, a few fled over the river Celduin and merged with the People of Dale (with whom they were akin), some took refuge in Gondor, and others were gathering under the leadership of Marhwini son of Marhari. They headed north and eventually settled east of Anduin in the Vales of Anduin. They were joined by many fugitives who came through Mirkwood. This was the birth of the Éothéod, though no news of this reached Gondor for many years. Most of the Northmen were reduced to servitude, and all their former lands were occupied by the Wainriders.


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BEIJING -- Newly installed Chinese leader Xi Jinping faces a key test of his campaign to end corruption and reduce extravagance when outlays for the politically influential military are announced Tuesday after two decades of whopping defense budget increases.
The opening of the national legislature's annual session, and the release of the coming year's military spending, will provide an indication of how Xi and his cohort of new leaders are consolidating power three months into office. With its deep roots in the Communist Party and heavy representation in the legislature, the military always looms large in that political calculus.
The legislature's spokeswoman defended booming military spending Monday, saying the vast investment has contributed to global peace and stability, though she did not announce the coming year's percentage increase, as usually has been done on the eve the legislature's opening.
Following years of double-digit increases, the amount of this year's increase will be a barometer of the complicated relationship between the party leadership and the military. A big boost would show Xi wants robust backing for the People's Liberation Army at a time when China has strident territorial disputes with neighbors and wants to reduce U.S. influence in the region. A smaller increase would show that Xi feels he has strong military backing without the need to pander to its recent demands for ever-larger outlays.
Growth in the military budget should match or exceed last year's rate, if only to keep up with rising inflation, said Ni Lexiong, a military expert at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law. However, he said recent prohibitions on lavish entertainment and perks such as luxury cars should ensure a larger chunk of spending goes to training and weapons development.
"Of course, military development and research in science and technology also require a larger budget, but the growth of military spending must be stable," he said.
The NPC session itself will offer an additional opportunity to assess relations between the military and the 59-year-old Xi, who is the son of a famed revolutionary general and who served briefly in uniform as aide-de-camp to the defense minister some three decades ago.
Xi, who already heads the chairmanship of the party's Central Military Commission, has been generally seen as more agreeable to the military than his predecessor Hu, and has been conspicuous in his attentions to the PLA since taking over as party chief. Those have included visits to naval, air force, infantry and missile bases.
Fu Ying, a spokeswoman for the National People's Congress, said the overall military budget would be released Tuesday. She said China maintained a strictly defensive military posture and cited U.N. peacekeeping missions and anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden as examples of Beijing's contribution to world peace and stability.
"As such a big country, China's inability to ensure its own security would not be good news for the world," Fu said. "Our strengthening of our defense is to defend ourselves, to defend security and peace, and not to threaten other countries."
Approving the budget is among the key tasks of the session, which this year will see new leaders placed into top government positions after they were elevated within the party at November's Communist Party congress.
Xi, the new party leader, will take over from Hu Jintao as president, and become head of the government's Central Military Commission, as part of China's once-a-decade power transition. In addition, the session approves top Cabinet appointments such as the defense minister.
Chinese defense spending has grown substantially each year for more than two decades, and last year rose 11.2 percent to 670.2 billion yuan ($106.4 billion), an increase of about 67 billion yuan.
Only the United States spends more on defense. Its military budget last year was estimated from $1 trillion to $1.4 trillion.
China's defense spending is a perennial concern for Washington and China's neighbors, who worry that a more powerful and assertive Beijing could upset the U.S.-dominated balance of power in Asia and potentially spark a conflict.
In a standoff between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea, ships and planes from each side have repeatedly confronted each other in recent months. China's feuds with Vietnam and the Philippines over territory in the South China Sea have also flared up in recent months, while Beijing has been unnerved by the U.S. military's renewed focus on the Asia-Pacific, including plans to station marines in northern Australia on training missions.
Outside concerns about China's military buildup are also fed by doubts over the reliability of the defense budget figure, which is widely believed to exclude foreign military purchases and other items. In its 2012 report on China's military, the Pentagon estimated actual spending of $120-180 billion in 2011, well above China's official figure that year of $91.5 billion.
While the defense budget is all but certain to rise again this year, the military will be under pressure to cut down on waste and corruption.
One especially feisty and widely quoted military commentator, Gen. Luo Yuan, wrote on his microblog recently that wasting funds on expensive cars and flashy but useless projects would ultimately be the PLA's downfall.
"Units that waste money on projects to boost their image and reputation, or that quest for the grandiose and exotic, are in fact frittering away our combat effectiveness," Luo wrote.
In the meantime, the tense situation with Japan and others will ensure that the military continues to enjoy an exalted status, particularly when it comes to funding.
"The more serious the situation becomes, the higher status the military will enjoy and that includes military, social and political status," Ni said.


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CHICAGO: Tax reform is the new rage. It�s not just the favorite idea on the campaign trail and think tank circuit these days. It�s the glorious inevitability that will end the nation�s fiscal crisis.
Everyone is for it, and everybody agrees on what it involves. The Simpson-Bowles deficit commission said, �The tax code is rife with inefficiencies, loopholes, incentives, tax earmarks and baffling complexity. We need to lower tax rates, broaden the base, simplify the tax code and bring down the deficit.�
That panel was created by President Barack Obama, who claims he is �eager to reach an agreement based on the principles of my bipartisan debt commission.� Last year, he said, �The best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code.� Mitt Romney agrees: �I want to bring the rates down; I want to simplify the tax code.�
In a statement issued Thursday, more than 80 CEOs lined up behind �comprehensive and pro-growth tax reform, which broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenues and reduces the deficit.�
So it�s clear where all this is leading. �Presidential Race Paves the Way for Tax Reform,� read the headline in the Wall Street Journal. Washington insiders think the stars are aligned to dramatically simplify the tax code and broaden the tax base.
If so, we can look forward to an economically rational overhaul that will boost federal revenues while accelerating growth and improving the incentives to work and invest. The prospect shimmers like an oasis in the desert.
But like many an oasis, this one is a mirage. The emerging consensus doesn�t arise from a grownup recognition of budget reality or a disenchantment with Washington�s habit of catering to special interests. It stems from a powerful urge to escape the painful choices required to put our fiscal house in order.
�Tax reform� has become a magic incantation that banishes all the bogeymen the major parties conjure up in budget debates. A simpler tax code with lower rates, we are led to believe, means Grandma won�t have to go before the death panel, college students won�t lose federal aid, defense contractors won�t starve and taxes will stay down.
The idea is appealing mainly because we hear only the positives. Would you like a tax return you can fill out in five minutes? Would you like to keep more of each extra dollar you earn? I hear no dissents.
But there�s a bit more to it. Lose the deduction you take for your mortgage interest or your charitable contributions? Pay extra for health insurance because your company can no longer write it off? Not so fast.
The candidates indicate we can close the budget gap by revoking only those loopholes used by other people. Romney has been charmingly silent on what tax breaks he will scrap. Obama favors �eliminating special tax breaks for oil and gas companies; closing loopholes for investment fund managers; and eliminating benefits for corporate jet owners,� none of which would offend many voters or raise much revenue.
They propose to expand the base by curbing the amount taxpayers can deduct under existing rules. Obama wants to limit the value of deductions to 28 percent, even for taxpayers in the 35 percent bracket. Romney suggests capping total deductions at $17,000 or $25,000 or something � �I�ll pick a number,� he said in the first debate.
These proposals are evasions, not solutions. In the first place, putting limits on the use of deductions does far less to broaden the base of taxable income and generate revenue than getting rid of them.
In the second place, this approach does nothing to simplify the tax code. The existing thicket of deductions and incentives would remain in place, slightly pruned around the edges.
For a politician to endorse tax reform is the equivalent of calling for budget cuts: It�s a crowd-pleaser as long as the crowd is led to believe it will have to sacrifice nothing. But the big money is in lucrative, popular deductions that can�t be eliminated without adversely affecting millions of voters.
That�s why major tax reform was such a surprise in 1986. That�s also why it soon unraveled, and why it is very unlikely to happen again. Politicians don�t like tax reform because it gives them a way to solve our problems. They like it because it gives them a way to pretend to.
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Some more details on Comcast's (CMCSA) forthcoming Web video service:
- Comcast will launch the service, tentatively called 'OnDemand Online', later this year.
- It's not directly going after Hulu, because Hulu is mostly TV shows from broadcast networks like NBC and Fox, its owners.
Comcast's 'OnDemand Online', on the other hand, is mostly new content from cable networks that isn't online yet. (Cable networks haven't put as much content on Hulu yet or on the Web at all.)
Sure, everyone is always competing for eyeballs, viewing time, etc. And if Hulu can get some (or all) of that content eventually, they'll be bigger rivals. But for now, it's mostly different sets of content.
- Most of the content will be free if you subscribe to Comcast's cable TV service. But it's possible that there will be some pay-per-view stuff, too.
- Comcast will count this traffic toward its 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap. We don't know how other cable providers -- which have less generous caps than Comcast, and overage charges -- will handle this.
- It will only be available to people who live in Comcast TV areas. It will not be available to people who can't subscribe to Comcast or don't live in a Comcast zone.
- It will not require a Comcast connection, however. If you are at work or (theoretically) on a plane, you could use it.
- Comcast is working with other cable companies on some technology aspects of the project, such as verifying that someone is a cable subscriber, or pays for a premium channel. But the cable companies are forging content deals with cable networks separately.
- No live TV, not now at least. This won't replace your SlingBox, but will mostly complement Comcast's video on demand service.
Why are these cable networks working with Comcast but not as freely with sites like Hulu? It's a simple math problem.
Cable companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable (TWC), etc., generate a huge chunk -- say, around half -- of the revenue for cable networks. TV ads generate about half, too. Meanwhile, online ads generate very little. That is why Food Network might hypothetically put ten seasons of "Good Eats" on Comcast's 'OnDemand Online' but not on Hulu.
We don't live in a Comcast city, but we could definitely see something like this making Comcast subscribers more likely to hold on to their cable TV subscriptions. Which is the point. (As well as keeping subscribers away from satellite, telco TV, etc.)
Comcast said Wednesday that it hasn't lost any significant number of subscribers yet just because there's more video available for free on the Web. And indeed, it looks like the pay-TV industry as a whole grew last year despite the recession, housing crash, Hulu, etc.
But that isn't guaranteed forever. So Comcast and its peers are smart to do what they can to keep subscribers happy -- and to keep as much cable content as possible out of Hulu's hands.


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In my last post, I made an unfortunate brief, off-hand comment for which I should have known better. My reference to the USGenWeb.org was not well thought out. Thanks to a commentator for keeping me on track. Please accept my apology.
Quoting from the main page of the USGenWeb.org:
Welcome to The USGenWeb Project! We are a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone.
Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state genealogy websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those pages, as well.
Clicking on a State Link (on the left) will take you to the State's website. Clicking on the tabs above will take you to additional information and links. You can also use the drop down menu in the upper left hand corner which will also take you to the State's website of your choice.
All of the volunteers who make up The USGenWeb Project are very proud of this endeavor and hope that you will find their hard work both beneficial and rewarding. Thank you for visiting!The USGenWeb.org can contain any or all of the following:
• Transcribed census records, tombstones, deed records, etc.
• Local courthouse and government offices information
• Surnames of others researching similar family names
• Possible ancestor photos, and or historical landscape photos
• Newspaper articles of decades gone by
• Transcriptions or abstracts of journals and diaries
• Historical maps of the local area
The USGenWeb.org and all the subsidiary projects are an extremely valuable place to find local sources not available from other online sources. From the comment it is true that the USGenWeb.org contains a considerable amount of source information, depending on the activity of the volunteers in the counties.
Once again, please accept my apology for a misstatement regarding sources. I can't decide whether I classify it as a link-to site or a database. It certainly has both features. I would put it in the same category as Cindi's List and the FamilySearch Research Wiki, but with names in addition to sources. What I said about being searchable is correct. If you do a Google search for your family names, you will find content in the USGenWeb.org.


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by Andrew Gahwiler, sports information student assistant
EATONTON, Ga.- The Georgia College golf team and head coach Jimmy Wilson will host the Bobcat Invitational beginning March 18. The tournament annually features one of the toughest Division II fields in the southeast and will be played at Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee.
The Bobcats will have a tough test, as the Bobcat Invitational will feature seven top-10 teams in the Division II Golfstat Head-to-Head Rankings. Along with the top-10 squads the tournament will also feature seven Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams.
The top team participating in the Bobcat Invitational, and the top team in the GolfStat Head-to-Head rankings, is No. 1 Nova Southeastern University. The tournament features six more top-10 teams: No. 2 Barry University, No. 5 Florida Southern College, No. 6 USC Aiken, No. 7 University of North Alabama, No. 8 Columbus State University and No. 10 Lynn University.
The No. 11 Bobcats will be facing off with numerous PBC foes in the tournament. No. 6-ranked USC Aiken joins No. 8 Columbus State, No. 18 Georgia Southwestern State University, No. 19 Armstrong, No. 27 Clayton State University, Lander University, and UNC Pembroke.
Rounding out the rest of the field at the Bobcat Invitational is Carson-Newman College, No. 14 Rollins College and Valdosta State University.
Last year at the Bobcat Intercollegiate, GC Golf placed 10th, as the tournament was won by Barry University with a total score of 833. Barry ran away from the field last year, as the second place team Nova Southeastern was 10 strokes off the lead. The Bobcats ended the tournament with a score of 861. Last year the Bobcats were led by All-American Ryan Trocchio (Norcross, Ga.) who shot 208 for the tournament to take 10th; the top individual winner for the Bobcat Intercollegiate was Daniel Young of Lynn who had a score of 202.
The Bobcat Invitational will have three total rounds of play starting with two March 18 and a final 18 holes March 19.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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How to Balance Showing Versus Telling
By Jody Hedlund, @JodyHedlund
One thing I've noticed through critiquing and judging contests (and from personal experience), is that writers have a difficult time finding balance when it comes to showing versus telling. In fact, I've noticed two phases: over-telling and under-telling.
1. The over-telling phase:
In our first books, we usually over-explain just about everything in the story. We take an entire paragraph to describe our main character's physical description in precise detail. We spend a page telling about her past and the events leading up to the current problem. We toss in lots of flowers and birds and rainbows and sunsets.
We think we're eloquent and that our prose is other-worldly. We believe we're creating complex characters and well-plotted novels with all the explaining we're doing.
But then (either through feedback or personal growth) we realize how wordy we are.
Eventually, as we brush up on our writing skills, we begin to learn how to write by scenes. Thanks to television and movies, readers prefer to see a story as a series of immediate scenes. They no longer have a tolerance for the exhausting pages of description and explanation that characterizes so many books of the past.
So we as writers try to imitate what's done on the big screen. In fact, many of us may even read screen-writing books (like Save the Cat) to help us tighten and hone our writing skills, until we trim and eliminate every unnecessary word possible. Eventually, we learn to show not tell.
And that's when some writers enter the next phase:
2. The under-telling phase:
In our passion to avoid excess, we end up going to the opposite extreme with our stories, putting them under the microscope and eliminating every extra jot and tiddle.
Everyone seems to be instructing us to cut out or go lean on things like:
NARRATIVE SUMMARY: The narrator (usually the POV character) tells or summarizes events, the passing of time, or the getting from one setting to another.
EXPOSITION: Information that helps explain something about the plot, a character, or the story. This includes:
*Backstory: All of the story that happened prior to the opening of the book
*Background: The technical details that are important to the story
*Physical descriptions: Of characters, setting, emotions, and sensory details
INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Going inside a character's head and getting a glimpse of their thoughts and feelings.
EXTRA WORDAGE: Passive tense verbs, adverbs, "as" and "-ing" constructions, exclamation points, italics, etc.
Yes, we're encouraged practically everywhere to ruthlessly delete the excess.
But in the process of eliminating we're left with a dry, often emotionless story that is unable to engage the senses and emotions of the reader.
Renni Browne and Dave King in Self-Editing For Fiction Writers said this: "We have noticed since the first edition of this book came out that a lot of writers have taken our advice about showing and telling too much to heart. The result has sometimes been sterile writing, consisting mostly of bare-bones descriptions and dialogue." (p. 133 Emphasis mine)
Essentially we under-tell (and mostly show) our stories. We've cut too much. We've made them too much like a television show.
And somewhere along the line we have to find a middle ground.
Learn to balance showing versus telling:
One of the beauties of fiction is that it can give us more depth than a movie. We can get inside the characters' heads to experience what they're feeling and thinking in a way that's just not possible on the screen.
So while the modern reader doesn't want to be bogged down with too much detail, they do want a book, not a movie. We need to find ways to seamlessly weave in all of the summaries, exposition, and internal monologue, rather than leaving them out. We need to learn the right amount of each that works for us and our stories—not over-doing it, but getting enough into our stories in all the right spots.
As we grow as writers, we begin to learn more about ourselves, and we eventually come upon our unique VOICE (the story-telling cadence, sounds, and tone) and STYLE (a writer's particular way of putting the story together).
When we get dressed, we all put on the basics—pants, shirt, shoes, socks, etc. But it's amazing all of the unique combinations we can make when we add our own flare—colors, cuts, jewelry, belts, purses, etc.
Our stories are the same way. We need the basic structures of story-telling (the bare-bones), but we can't stop there. We need to learn to dress up our stories with our own unique voice and style. Maybe we'll add a bit more description than someone else, or more transitions, or whatever it is we like most about story-telling. When we add our own personal flare to our stories, they can begin to come to life.
Summary: Find a balance. Don't fall into the mistake of over-telling. But also, don't go to the opposite extreme of under-telling. Look for ways to make your book a book (not a movie), but a book that modern readers will enjoy.
How about YOU? Have you gone through either the over-telling or under-telling phase? What are some ways you've found a balance?
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By the date on the calendar, it will be Fall soon enough. But here it is still in the nineties and only a few flowers make it through so many days of this heat. Even the zinnias are coming to the end of the their summer season. Each year I love zinnias more and more.
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Xolile Mngeni, a township-raised drug dealer who has been diagnosed with brain cancer, was found guilty at Western Cape High Court of murdering Mrs Dewani, a 28-year-old Swedish product designer, during her honeymoon in Cape Town.
The 25-year-old was accused of firing a bullet into Mrs Dewani's neck at almost point blank range after hijacking the couple's people carrier taxi as it drove through one of the city's most dangerous townships.
However, South African prosecutors have publicly accused the newlywed's husband Shrien, a former public schoolboy from Bristol, of orchestrating her killing.
He is currently being treated for depression and post traumatic stress disorder and is fighting extradition back to South Africa.
Ashok Hindocha, Mrs Dewani's uncle, welcomed Mngeni's conviction but said her family could never have justice until Shrien was also put on trial.
He said that waiting for the "truth" from Mr Dewani was "eating our family up from inside".
"We are happy about today's news but we still need the last person on trial, Shrien Dewani, so we can know the whole truth," he said, from Sweden.
"It's time that Shrien goes to South Africa and faces trial there so hopefully we can get closure in this case and move on with our lives and start the mourning process.
"South Africa has done all that they could do in this case and we are happy with what has been happening over there."
He added: "But we are less happy with what is going on in the UK. I am certain that Shrien will get a fair trial when he goes to South Africa."
"We didn't have any expectations whatsoever [for this trial] because we've spent many, many hours in court and we always get let down.
"So it was a bit of a surprise that it was a positive verdict for us. We're happy finally."
Mziwamadoda Qwabe, left, said Xolile Mngeni shot Mrs Dewani (AP)
Mngeni, 25, is the third man to have been convicted over Mrs Dewani's death in November 2010. He was also found guilty of robbery and owning an unlicensed gun and ammunition but acquitted on a charge of kidnapping.
In delivering his ruling, Judge Robert Henney told the court Mngeni's account was "riddled with improbabilities, inconsistencies and untruths."
He said he was "satisfied that the accused has committed the crime of murder".
"The case against the accused is overwhelming and the accused could barely avoid the avalanche of evidence from crashing down on him," he added.
Shrien Dewani denies any involvement in his wife's murder and is fighting extradition from England to South Africa. His lawyer declined to comment on Monday's verdict.
In March the High Court temporarily halted Mr Dewani's extradition proceedings because of his poor mental health. In July, the hearing was delayed again after a court heard he needed a "period of calm".
The businessman, who has vowed to clear his name, has been receiving treatment for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
"We still want him to come to South Africa," National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said.
Mrs Dewani, 28, was shot in the neck in Gugulethu township near Cape Town during her honeymoon in November 2010 just over two weeks after their marriage.
Mngeni and an accomplice boarded the Dewanis' VW Sharan people carrier taxi as the couple were being driven through Gugulethu township on their way back to their five star hotel from an evening out.
Shrien Dewani outside Belmarsh Magistrates Court (PA)
After dumping the taxi's driver by the side of the road, the gun-toting gangsters robbed the newlyweds. Anni's husband Shrien, now aged 33, was dumped at a remote road junction.
A few minutes later Mngeni fired the single bullet into Anni's neck which killed her, Cape Town's High Court ruled.
The pathologist who examined Anni's body the following day said that the bullet was fired at an almost point-blank range of no more than 10 cm.
Mngeni denied several claims by his co-accused Mziwamadoda Qwabe, who was jailed for 25 years for his role in Mrs Dewani's murder.
Qwabe pleaded guilty to kidnap, robbery, murder and illegal possession of a firearm in August, saying he was paid 15,000R (£1,335) by Shrien Dewani, 31, to ambush their taxi and kill Mrs Dewani. He named Mngeni as the gunman in his plea bargain.
Mngeni had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Last month he argued police coerced him into confessing to the murder in Cape Town in November 2010 by forcing his head into a bag of pepper spray and slamming his genitals in a drawer.
Taxi driver Zola Tongo has also been found guilty of Mrs Dewani's murder. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in December 2010.


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The Plymouth County District Attorney's office will partner with the city and High Point Treatment Center to host a conference Friday looking into the latest trends in drug use and strategies to combat abuse.
The Plymouth County District Attorney's office will partner with the City of Brockton and High Point Treatment Center to host a conference Friday looking into the latest trends in drug use and strategies to combat abuse.
"Our county is filled with many dedicated, passionate advocates for drug prevention and intervention," according to a statement from District Attorney Timothy Cruz. "Through this conference we hope to share information with parents, professionals and the community on what our kids are being offered, what they are exposed to, and how can we better address the problems of addiction."
The conference will focus on opiates and synthetic drugs such as bath salts or synthetic marijuana – commonly known as K2 or spice.
The all-day event, which will be held at The Shaw's Conference Center, 1 Feinberg Way, is meant to be an educational opportunity for law enforcement, human services and treatment officials as well as community stakeholders.
Cruz will discuss his office's newest collaboration with the Sheriff's Office and the installation of drug return boxes in the lobbies of local police stations.
Dr. Joseph Shrand, medical director for the High Point Treatment Center program in Brockton called CASTLE (Clean And Sober Teens Living Empowered), will speak on the science behind addiction and the brain.
Dr. Alexander Walley, medical director of the Massachusetts Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution program, will discuss the naloxone pilot program. Naloxone, also known by the brand name of a common nasal injector Narcan, is a drug effective in reversing opiate overdoses. The pilot program recently celebrated its 2,000th reported reversal.
The afternoon session will feature Special Agent Todd Prough of the Drug Enforcement Administration, who will give a presentation on the dangers of synthetic drugs.
Cruz plans to stress the need for town officials to draft legislation banning the sale and possession of synthetic drugs in local businesses, according to a press release.
Despite federal and state laws banning many of the compounds found in synthetic drugs, manufacturers are skirting those prohibitions by slightly altering the ingredients in what is being marketed as incense. But experts say the makeup is still just as dangerous and can lead to organ failure and death.
A number of area municipalities have moved to institute local bans, and several others are considering following suit.
Morgan True may be reached at email@example.com follow him on twitter @truemorgan_ENT.
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SAN MATEO — Surveillance video of a woman running in high heels and performing oral sex in a public park landed her behind bars Thursday after a judge sentenced her to nine months in jail for performing the physical acts while claiming to be too injured to work, the district attorney said.
Modupe Adunni Martin, 29, of Hayward, was taken to jail upon being sentenced Thursday in San Mateo County Superior Court, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
A former custodian for the Sequoia Union High School District, Martin told her employers at Woodside High School that she was unable to walk after injuring her ankle on the job in 2009.
Martin, who walked with crutches into 10 separate doctor's visits over the course of three months, stirred suspicion in the two doctors who tended to her and they suspected she was exaggerating the extent of her injuries, Wagstaffe said. Doctors gained permission to take surveillance of Martin surrounding one of her medical visits, to ensure she was not lying to obtain workers' compensation benefits.
Doctors later viewed the video footage, which shows Martin walking with crutches into the doctor's office, and then ditching them shortly thereafter, Wagstaffe said. After the visit, Martin walked to a public park without the crutches and ran a short distance in her high-heeled shoes, before kneeling and performing oral sex on her boyfriend.
Doctors determined that Martin's ability to perform the acts demonstrated in the video were not consistent with the injuries she said she was suffering from, and concluded she was lying about her injuries to obtain benefits, Wagstaffe said.
Martin was charged with the 10 counts of workers' compensation fraud in August of 2009. In addition to her jail sentence, Martin was sentenced to three months probation and ordered to repay more than $79,000 in defrauded funds.
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April 06, 2012
Working with Independent Bloggers
If you're reading this post, chances are, you know what a blog is, and you know what bloggers are.
But bloggers come in all shapes and sizes... And working styles. And that, apparently, is still somewhat of a hazy grey area.
An incident happened a week or so ago with a beauty company trying to promote its products, which did not end too well, hence today's post.
Over the last few years, it has been no secret that apart from mainstream magazines, beauty companies have been engaging bloggers to reach out to an even bigger target audience. After all, if you're frequenting a beauty blog, it's very likely that you'd be the target consumer of a beauty company as well.
While that's worked out pretty well in the US, where bloggers have been practically given "Press" status, there seems to be quite a bit of kink to clear up in Malaysia.
If you're still with me so far, read on to find out why this blogger is on a rant.
(Note: This might be quite a long read.)
So what happened with the said incident was a beauty company (let's called it Company X) had contacted a few of us Malaysian beauty bloggers asking if we'd like to do product reviews, and also to provide them details on our fee.
We politely declined, saying that So Loverly, as a principle, does not participate in schemes which offer to pay bloggers for reviews. And further, we would prefer not to be thrown onto the bandwagon of bloggers who do, so thank you very much, but no.
We later learned that several other Malaysian bloggers who were contacted, had also decided to take a similar stand.
All would have been fine, except that the representative from Company X decided to reply a blogger with this -- "Thank you for your email and we do fully respect your decision. As much as we would like to have genuine reviews on our products, it is undeniable that bloggers in general accept a fee to write. Therefore, we are unable to control in that sense."
Here's where I take offence.
While different bloggers have different working styles, I find it somewhat disturbing when a blogger makes her position clear that she does not do paid reviews, and you throw it back in her face with "it is undeniable that bloggers in general accept a fee to write". Yes, some bloggers do it, but NOT this one.
If beauty companies are going to have a successful working relationship with independent bloggers, here are some points to take note of.
1. Respect the blogger - Bloggers in general, blog because they want to, not because they have to. So Loverly started out as an avenue for Kahani and I to share our makeup raves and rants, because we got bored having only each other to share those things with. In the process, we met an entire community of fellow beauty bloggers, and I can tell you that they are an intelligent bunch. Many of them are professionals by day, makeup fiends by night. Treat us bloggers with respect, we do not suffer fools gladly.
2. Respect how we work - At So Loverly, most of what we review are paid for from our own pockets. While we do accept products for reviews, we do have a few ground rules. Prior to accepting products, we make it a point to be clear with the company that: a) We don't do paid reviews. Never have. Never will. b) We take time to review products, sometimes months, especially if it's skincare. Skincare does not work overnight magic. Also because there's usually a backlog of products to test. C) There is no guarantee of a favourable review. We take pride in writing fair and honest reviews for our readers, and if something doesn't work for us, we state it as such. We try hard to be fair by stating that it might not have worked for us because of a particular ingredient etc. d) In some cases, we might decide not to write about a product altogether after testing it, and we would like the discretion to do so. e) We disclose the fact when products are provided for reviews. Only if a company is still keen after understanding our stand, do we go ahead and accept products for reviews.
So Loverly has even gone to the extent of turning down skincare products altogether at one point. As Kahani and I are not blessed with problem-free skin (Eli is a little more fortunate here), we try to not put our skin through more torture than necessary. Also, having your skin break out every other day means it's almost impossible to review a skincare product fairly and objectively.
Credibility is key here. And that's also one thing that sets us apart from mainstream media - it's what earns the trust of the readers.
Telling us that bloggers take money to do a write-up after we tell you we don't, is quite frankly, a silly thing to do. You just lost brownie points there.
3. Write to us professionally - Call me a grammar Nazi, but if your introductory email is already peppered with grammatical errors left, right and centre, it's a little hard for me to take you seriously. That's not to say it has to be absolutely typo-free... to err is human, after all.
4. Communicate honestly with us - When you contact us, let us know what your objectives are. Are you interested for us to attend your event/ review your product/ tell you what we like/ all of the above? Communicating with us clearly will set the right expectations and reduce the likelihood of a uhh.. miscommunication, and us wanting to strangle each other. Talk to us, and we will be more than happy to listen and respond. Why do you think we started the blog in the first place?
5. Understand that bloggers band together more than you think - This is not a threat. This is me merely stating a fact. When you treat one independent blogger like trash, word gets around. After all, this is the media. How do you think other bloggers are going to react with your brand or company? Trying to pitch one blogger against the other doesn't really work either. Worse still, it's likely not to work for you at all.
Kahani has previously written her own set of advice here.
Treat us independent bloggers with respect and understand the way we work. In the long run, I believe it can be a rewarding and win-win experience for both parties.
Thoughts, anyone?
Coincidentally, ParisB wrote about the same company, and almost the same topic, over on My Women Stuff. Toldja bloggers talk. - Kahani
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- Tine said...
Very well written, Syen! I thought the company was cheeky with that insinuation. They fail to remember that not all bloggers accept remuneration for their write-ups.
On the other hand, the number of bloggers who do are rising, and rising fast. I can't say the same for Malaysian bloggers, but for Australian bloggers, a number of them do not do reviews without first getting paid. I suppose as they are full-time bloggers, it IS their job, but I think it can sometimes hurt the rest of us bloggers who do not go down that road.
At the end of the day, the key word is RESPECT. There has to be respect between the brand and the blogger. Don't throw us a fish and expect to jump through hoops to catch it. Do not assume that by providing us with product, that automatically means a positive review (and then get your knickers in a twist if the review isn't favourable).
This is a topic that I could go on and on about :P
- 6 April 2012 at 08:24
- Paris B said...
Today must be "rant about PR day" coz I just posted about this incident on my blog :D I agree with all your points, since we see eye to eye on this issue.
All the PR has to do is to read through the blog to get an idea of whether it suits them. Doesn't take them 5 minutes to do so. I even make things easier by including a link to reviews on my about & contact pages. But do they read? No. If they don't bother, why should I eh?
- 6 April 2012 at 09:51
- Kahani said...
Well done, Syen!
I wish more bloggers understood the ramification of accepting paid reviews - the difference being that if it's an advertorial, you declare it as such. A paid review is sneaky and looks like a genuine opinion.
If bloggers lose their credibility then what use are we? It's shoot yourself in the foot. And PR companies should KNOW better. The media, fashion and beauty in particular, has sold out. We're the last bastion of honesty and they want to undermine our word-of-mouth value. Idjits.
- 6 April 2012 at 11:41
- Syen said...
Tine: Thanks. While it's hardly my position to judge how some bloggers decide what works for them, it's a little sad when companies lump everyone together and think they have a right to demand for a positive review by simply offering a payment for it. I honestly don't see how this works out for them in the long run.
Paris: Yes, apparently it is! LOL. And yes, I also agree with you on that. As Kahani has said in her previous post before, companies should learn to pick their blogs wisely. After all, we do cater to slightly different readers even within the beauty circles.
- 6 April 2012 at 13:13
- Syen said...
Kahani: Thanks dearie. I guess not many beauty companies understand or appreciate what honest reviews can do for them. I don't get it.. they want our honest opinions but only when it works for them? That's not entirely an honest stand then, is it?
- 6 April 2012 at 13:17
- ksuan said...
Preach it, Syen. Thanks for your candour and your clarity :)
PS: Do get dommie to tell you about a most irksome experience that we had with a particular exclusive brand that approached us recently.
- 6 April 2012 at 15:37
- Eli said...
Well done. I do think that if companies took the time to actually read blogs prior to contacting them, they would realise what our policies are. B
ad grammar and writing is a no-no too. What kind of image is the company presenting when their staff can't write? Professional? I think now.
- 7 April 2012 at 11:02
- Syen said...
Ksuan: Thanks! Oh dear, I must hear it from Dom! =P
Eli: Hello you! Aye!
- 9 April 2012 at 01:15
- beetrice said...
A bit late to the comments (since I'm only catching up on my feeds now!), but fully agreed on all your points - it irks me to no end when brands send out mass mails and have unreasonable expectations.
Good to know I'm not the only grammar Nazi around - can't stand it when I get badly written emails, particularly when the brand can't even spell their own product properly (there was a particular email where this wrong spelling was peppered throughout the whole spiel!).
- 9 April 2012 at 12:14
- Petra said...
Love these articles. Well done Syen, please keep them coming.
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