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It seems to be widely accepted in our society that "destiny" is somehow shaping our existence and that there is nothing we can do about it. We are told that, since we are destiny's pawns, it is futile for us to think that we can - or should - take individual responsibility for who we are or what we do.
There is another option to accepting this admittedly seductive counsel. If we accept that we are self-determined beings, we can open the way to the restoration of fully functional existence and thereby the recovery of personal autonomy. The method involves revisiting, reevaluating and finally taking responsibility for all of our agreements with our cultural milieu - past, present and future.Over twenty-five years ago, as I entered middle age, I realized that for the first time in my life I could no longer depend on others to "look after" me; that is, to make my decisions for me. I could no longer merely be the effect of others' decisions. I finally fully understood that I, and only I, was ultimately responsible for my life. Like many others of my generation it had not up to that time occurred to me that, rather than the development of my life depending on the decisions of others, who I am, where I am and what I am doing is solely my responsibility. When I fully integrated that concept, which in real time occurred very quickly, I turned a corner in my mind.
What follows is a personal account of the conclusions I have drawn from following such a path, as well as some suggestions for others who may wish to do likewise.
In essence, I realized that at an elemental level I had been working from a fundamental hypothesis, from which all else flowed. My basic hypothesis was, "I'm somebody else's problem." Change occurred for me when that postulate was rejected; that is, when I fully accepted that I - and only I - am responsible for my behaviour at any instant. Further, I understood that my reality (which I define as how I process and interpret my sensory input at any moment) is my own construct; it not imposed by others. Implicit in this was the concurrent acceptance of responsibility for the whole of my self. I then understood that it is not necessary for me to prove anything to anyone or to seek the agreement of others in order to validate my existence.
Once I realized I was responsible for my life -- past and future -- my entire suite of past agreements, as well as the decisions which stemmed from those agreements, were available for review and modification. I then elected, in order to expedite the process, not to recall specific instances of agreement, but only to modify my agreement. In effect, I suspended all agreement for a time, then selectively evaluated and reincorporated by agreement that which was useful and discarded that which was not.
Moving from the known to the unknown (and for me this was unknown territory) was frightening. But I quickly learned that its benefits infinitely outweigh its hazards. While it looked from one side like stepping off a cliff, it became from the other side a new, novel, useful, and in my case, irreversible way of apprehending reality and concurrently reconstructing the self. That is, the understanding that personal reality is self-defined became a construct with which I could restore full functionality.
I characterize the creation of personal reality as follows: each of us selects out from a chaotic sensorium those inputs and constructs which we deem useful, however we may define "useful". Furthermore, the selection process is self-determined, just as is the definition of useful. Finally, selection and definition remain arbitrary and voluntary, although our culture seeks to coerce agreement with the cultural consensus.
In my view, differentiating sensory input is the first step in individuation, which the dictionary defines as, "the process by which individuals in society become differentiated from one another." I have come to understand this process to be the creation of a personal reality. Social psychology, however, defines this activity as "socialization"; that is, the way the self learns how to interact with its social surroundings. This definition presumes that something called the "self" is always present; and, moreover, that the self, at some early point in the development of personality, learns how to function effectively within its parent society through assimilation of that society's definition of its physical and cultural environment. I have learned - experientially - that the process begins much earlier than this. Indeed, individuation; that is, the creation of selfhood, begins at the instant one begins to differentiate sensory input; that is, at some point before birth.
The paradox is that individuation, by definition, sets limits upon the self. However, it is an essential survival mechanism, since without learned differentiation all would remain perceptual chaos. John Locke's notion of the infant mind as a tabula rasa, a clean slate, is a useful simile: individuation begins by ones agreement to delimit a limited specturm of input from that chaos. This primal agreement has been called "the decision to become human". The creation of personality is initiated by the "awareness of being aware." At that instant the self begins. However, here is where the simile fails. Rather than the self being somehow written by the impingement of the sensorium, all else after that instant is overlay. As such it can be removed, modified or, if one so wishes, replaced.
To reiterate: perceptual input remains chaotic, and meaning is not inherent in our perception of our environment. Rather, meaning is assigned only after it is learned. That is, our culture prompts us to invest a culturally defined definition of what our sensory input is signalling through an act of cognition. Prior to our agreement with these meanings, or labels, sensory input remains undifferentiated.
In my experience the ability to experience undifferentiated input, and to respond noncognitively, remains available and can be accessed in a number of ways. For example, one can experience this on a selective basis by removing the cultural definition, or, more concisely, the referent suite, from a word by continued repetition. This exercise demonstrates at least two useful concepts. First, at some point during the continued repetition of a randomly selected word, one will become aware that the sound previously assigned the label, "word" is now just another sound. Content of the sound; that is, its "meaning," has been removed. It is now undifferentiated input, inducing no cognitive response.
Initial reaction to this realization is usually some degree of panic as the self scrambles to reassign meaning. At this point it is useful to become aware of how personal meaning is assigned. Simply becoming aware of this mechanism will confirm that meaning is in fact assigned to the sounds we call "words": meaning is not inherent in the sound.
Furthermore, reflecting upon why a particular meaning, as well as an emotional valence, has been assigned to the word in question can provide insight into the influences which impinged upon the self at the time that meaning was assigned.
Once this is understood it will eventually become obvious that the assignment of personal meaning is not limited to words, but to all sensory input, ordering perceptual chaos according to societally agreed upon parameters. Thus the content previously assigned can be removed on a nonselective basis from all stimuli -- sound, light, gravity, temperature, and even time -- while still remaining aware of these inputs. Alpha state consciousness, achieved through meditation, or volitionally through systematic relaxation (and automatically just before falling asleep) is a convenient medium for this experience.
Essentially, while one remains aware of the sensorium, nothing is labelled. If in this state the self applies a label to anything, normal consciousness resumes, almost with a snap, and often with regret, since this condition of relaxed, undifferentiated awareness is extremely refreshing: one is at the point of infinite potential. The moment one once again permits the mind to delimit existence through its insistence upon taxonomy, a finite reality -- that is, the logical construct of that taxonomy -- is once again actualized. With practise, however, it is not difficult to decide to remove cognitive labelling and thus rehabilitate one's potentiality whenever and for however long one wishes to do so.
What, then, is the role of agreement?
I am now convinced that agreement, whether it be the consensus of two or of a million, creates reality. The psychologist Harry Stack Sullivan suggested that how we decide to behave in a given situation involves our analysis of the interaction of several people, all but one of whom may be imaginary. Thus agreement with oneself can also effectively create reality. There are, certainly, personal as well as environmental constraints. Few individuals or societies, however, test the constraint envelope, since it's infinitely easier to accept a societal (or personal) definition of limits. All too often we are coerced into agreeing to that assignment by our culture, creating what others have termed consensual reality. Once again: personal reality is created from chaos by the assignment of meaning.
Each of us creates our own reality -- piece by piece and bit by bit. Whenever we find a bit of another's personal reality to be useful and/or appealing we incorporate it; that is, we agree with it. Thus does a collective, consensual reality emerge. And thus, if someone is able to adequately articulate his own reality and is able, therefore, to convince others of the utility and/or appeal of a bit of it, do ones heroes emerge. Yet the only reality inhering in anything is that which we each, individually and personally, assign to it.
This is not to say that something that we call, for instance, "table," exists only because of our agreement, but rather that our agreement to label a particular matrix of sensory input "table," and to act toward that matrix accordingly, is an arbitrary investment of meaning and purpose within the societal consensus. Further, this investment of meaning and purpose by agreement is not limited to tangible objects, but also to beliefs, attitudes, emotions and opinions; that is, to our entire perceptual and emotional sensorium.
An important, perhaps primary, way in which society imposes consensus is by exploiting childrens' fear of being alone, through withholding agreement with any of childhood's non-consensual output. Since an infant is incapable of surviving alone, this is a powerful tool to enforce society's version of reality. Children then grow to adulthood, still deeply convinced that to survive they must not be alone, and if they disagree, they will become alone. It's not easy to break this chain, but it can be broken. However, breaking the chain by self-integration; that is, by the realization that each of us creates and refines our reality, remains an active, not a passive, process. It is a function of the self, not a result of effort by others, no matter how well-meaning that effort might be.
Our usual response to a new situation is to repeat as closely as possible our last successful response to what we perceive to have been a similar situation in our past. These "stock" responses can be compared to clothing in our psychological closet. Extending the simile, the reconfiguration of personal reality can be perceived as cleaning out one's closet of clothes which no longer fit, thus rehabilitating spontaneity. However, in my closet I'm the only one who really knows what fits and what doesn't. Others may suggest, and give well-meaning advice, but I'm the only one who can open the door and discard what I now know to be useless.
Fully functional existence is, and will always remain, self-determined. That is, all is available; however, one can (and will) freely choose, or freely elect not to choose, components of one's selfhood which may or may not be fully functionalized. The choice is always there. Insofar as manifesting behaviour which may be deemed by others to be dysfunctional is concerned, I repeat: it's a free, non-confluent choice, once it is realized that acceptance of responsibility for the self forgoes confluence. As a self-determined being, I freely choose my behaviour, without undue regard of the value judgements imposed by others. That being said, however, choice of behaviour which one understands to be self- or societally-destructive is contradictory to full functionality.
As I now understand my own experience, the process of reconfiguring my reality, and thus rehabilitating my functionality, was not so much a picking and choosing of bits and pieces from a number of spiritual and philosophical writers in order to create my own personal viewpoint, but rather the other way around. Once I had grasped what was for me the pivotal concept that personal reality is created by the self, together with all the other correlatives deriving from this fundamental insight, I began to discover elements in other disciplines which I recognized as congruent with my own viewpoint. Prior to that time these elements were invisible to me, thus giving new meaning to St. Paul's remark that "the scales fell from my eyes", the obvious metaphor for what I've just described. If it is accepted that one's reality is one's own personal creation it will be immediately obvious that one really only "sees" what one is looking for.
And this would seem to be the basis of "scientific method," which operates as follows: an hypothesis is enunciated ("Perhaps the following is true. . . ."), then data is procured through experiments designed to prove the hypothesis is not false or, in statistical terms, that "the null hypothesis is rejected." The experimenter can then declare, with full societal approval, that since he has "proved" his hypothesis not to be false, it must be true. That is, scientific method requires that the experiment be designed only to prove that which is a priori assumed to be true is not false.
In much the same way, convinced devotees within each of the various religions, philosophies, and cults tend to have the same relatively narrow view of truth, and go to great lengths to construct and disseminate involved "do it yourself" procedures designed to show others the way to immutable truth. This, I think, is the basis for much of the presumed necessity for the complicated rituals and specialized vocabularies which pervade New Age philosophies, certain cults, as well as all established religions, be they Eastern or Western.
Nevertheless, there are always those who say that, if you do thus-and-such, you will be saved, or that the only way of describing "how things work" is their way. These are sure signs of somebody who has gotten stuck in some aspect of "power" he's found he can access. Others are convinced that crystals, pyramids, statues of the saints, or the viscera of chickens possess certain inherent powers. Depending upon the charisma of whoever originally assigned the "powers" we utilize to an object, or class of objects, certain of these things become more widely accepted than others.
It's worthwhile to remember, however, that those powers, like meaning, are assigned by the self; they are not somehow inherent, fixed and immutable. Over time they become part of the conventional wisdom, and we tend to think of them as intrinsic to the object.
In my view, however, everything works; that is, the power we invest in any of these things, the significance we assign, tends to assist in "giving oneself permission" to be aware of aspects of oneself -- one's abilities -- hitherto ignored or more likely denied. I'm not convinced of any intrinsic power inhering in any of these artifacts existing independently of the observer.
Stress-reduction trainers, when teaching breathing exercises, say things like, "Give yourself the permission to relax. . . Be aware of what it feels like to relax. . ." They also speak of "concentrated awareness" when dealing with specific muscle groups. Recalling the lessons learned from voluntary transiting between cognitive and noncognitive response and applying those lessons to our perception of sensory stimuli, it is not unreasonable to suggest that this concept of concentrated awareness can be extended to the ability to focus on -- to be aware of -- anything, including any and all of one's own organs, physiological processes or other heretofore unrecognized abilities. It can easily be surmised what can be done with that ability, once one gives oneself permission to do so.
My realization that concentrated awareness could be focused on whatever I wished, when I gave myself permission to do so, was a part of my "turning the corner", mentioned earlier. It resulted in, among other things, my experiencing a phenomenon that I can only describe as contacting; that is, becoming absolutely, viscerally aware of all the pain in the world. Living with that, and learning how to switch it on and off was, I later realized, a tutorial in the stewardship of what some writers have called power: I learned that any ability can be invoked at will.
That is, I understand, a bald, unrelenting and terrifying statement. As is the experience. However, I was fortunate in having heard a comment by Ram Dass regarding his own experience with the mantram, "Om Mane Padme Hum." Briefly, during a time when he was repeating the mantram as a meditative exercise, he suddenly heard a chorus of excruciatingly bass voices (which he imitates in an impossible mutation of his own normal voice) chanting the mantram. He got very excited, and went to his guru to tell him of this enormous revelation which had been vouchsafed to him. His guru said, in effect, "Don't worry about it. You just joined the 'OM car.' [That is, everyone who has ever chanted this mantram]. It's nothing to worry about -- it happens all the time."
In my own case, I had only joined the Pain car. "It's nothing to worry about -- it happens all the time." Thus reassured, I began to understand the dynamics of "power". The only way I can describe the mechanics of this is to say that the key, if there is a key, lies in allowing oneself to access and to exercise one's inherent, or built-in, abilities -- to become aware.
If one wishes to access hitherto unavailable abilities, so be it. What one does with those abilities is another question. While each ability can have its own utility, all carry certain caveats in their use, the most important of which is that manifesting an ability, or "power", is the easiest way to lock oneself into a less than fully functional state. In the '60s this was accurately, although inadvertently, described as getting off on a power trip.
A story is told about a Zen master and a Hindu guru, who were walking together along a riverbank and decided to visit a nearby island. "Lets walk to the island," said the guru. "Why not take the ferry?" suggested the Zen master. "Because," said the guru, "Ive spent twenty years learning to walk on water." "Why take twenty years learning to walk on water," asked the master, "when you can take a ferry for a penny?" Thus the remainder of the key is usually to eschew the invocation of an ability.
[All of that being said, it is useful to remember that Shakespeare's Glendower asserts that "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." To which a sceptical Hotspur answers, "Why, so can I, or so can any man. But will they come?"]
The message in all that I have said so far is this: each of us is, when all is said and done, alone. That is, we are ultimately constrained by the meaning we have invested in our perceptions. The parameters of our constraints are unique to each of us, since no one assigns precisely the same meaning, even to a shared event. The immediate corollary to this is, however, that since meaning is not somehow inherent, but rather only a system of self-assigned labels, we remain free to change the labels if we so choose. Nonetheless, since it is impossible to totally agree on any meaning, we still remain essentially alone.
I once dreamt that I was building a house, and that the concrete foundation was completed. The plate had been installed on the top of the foundation, preparatory to putting up the exterior walls. As I began to erect the walls, however, a disintegrative entity appeared, and the foundation began to sink. I soon discovered that if I thought in a disciplined way about the foundation, I was able to bring it back to proper grade. But then the entity would then assault some other aspect of the reality I was in, and I would have to focus on that aspect in order to maintain it.
In this way I learned that, in order to maintain everything simultaneously, I had to be aware of everything -- if my awareness slacked, the entity would attack the neglected part. At first this required considerable effort, but with practice it became easier. This is, of course, an allegory of how we each maintain our own personal reality -- by remaining aware, at some level or another, of each of its components at all times.
Another person who came to realize the nature of personal reality as I have outlined it (but who did so long before I did), said this about that realization:
What is the total structure of a man? You are, within yourself, the world. You are, within yourself, the space-time continuum. You asked me, "Was there a difference"? There probably was. I made my world different. I changed it.So have I, and so can anyone.


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For 2019 to be a big year, you're going to have to start thinking about ways to improve your conversion rates now.
Without solid conversions, all the work you put into creating buzz and driving traffic will be in vain, and with e-commerce giants growing ever larger, the pressure to improve digital performance is on.
After 2018, being the year of the overwhelmed shopper, 2019 will see businesses taking note and focusing even more on humanizing and simplifying digital engagement.
This article will show you what you should consider to considerably boost your conversion rate in 2019 and make the customer experience profitable.
Find more useful tips in part 2
1) Fix your Analytics
Before implementing or changing anything, review your analytics setup. Data is everything to any e-commerce business, and if you're not tracking correctly, you won't know what's working and what isn't.
Conversion tip 1: Review and optimize the data you collect and how you collect it to gain full visibility into your customer journey. Figure out which key performance indicators (KPIs) really move the needle, and focus on optimizing those.
These are some of the metrics you'll likely want to monitor:
- Revenue by Traffic Source: Not all traffic is equal. Some sources bring in users who are more likely to purchase from your store. You need to double down on the highest converting traffic sources.
- Percentage of Returning Customers: How often are customers repeatedly buying from your e-commerce store? Do you know how they are navigating your site and their interests?
- Net Promoter Score: You can measure customer satisfaction by using the Net Promoter Score (NPS) – a simple survey that measures your customers' satisfaction by asking a single question.
- Landing Pages: Find out which landing pages have been converting your website visitors into buying customers and which marketing campaigns, SEO efforts or paid advertising brought them to you.
If tracking is key, analyzing data and generating actionable insights is castle. Google Analytics and similar solutions are invaluable. If you don't have access yet, Google Analytics is a great place to start, so set it up and dig in.
Analytics will help you understand your customers. Any business that understands how their customers behave already has one foot in the right direction.
2) Customer-centric optimization
In 2019, customers will no longer tolerate an online store that doesn't give them the user experience that they want. Once you have an insight into what makes your customers tick, it's time to make your brand and website all about their wants and needs.
Conversion tip 2: "Unless you start making it about the customer, understand their challenges, needs, and expectations you will never be able to create the experience your customers will love to convert to." – Talia Wolf, Conversion optimization specialist, trainer & speaker.
Here are 2 key ways to make it all about your customers and reap the rewards:
Build trust
Trust and consumer confidence in your brand and store are crucial conversion drivers. Before making the decision to purchase anything and convert, customers will judge whether they trust your company. Even well-established brands find it almost impossible to gain customers' trust through advertising only. Trust doesn't happen overnight.
If you run an e-commerce store, a great way to gain trust is by interacting with your customers on social media. This engagement will build a rapport and they will stop seeing you as a company just trying to sell to them.
You will also be able to learn more about your customers and go beyond demographic or transactional information to understand their pain points and needs. This will give you a full picture to inform and drive your optimization efforts.
PotNoodle, a UK brand that's part of Unilever Foods, partnered up with Ladbible and created a Dream Job Generator quiz to generate buzz and excitement and learn more about their audience.
A campaign you'd like to try out? Contact SMARTASSISTANT and get started.
Reward loyalty
The more confidence a customer has in your company, the more likely it is they will do business with you again. Even though getting a conversion from a first-time customer is essential, repeat customers are more valuable. The conversion value is multiplied if you are able to gain customer loyalty.
A perfect way to do this is by rewarding them for their loyalty. Consider reaching out to the top 1% of your loyal customers. Tell them you appreciate their loyalty and offer them a free gift.
Below, you can see a Chewy.com customer thanking the company for the hand-written card that they received. Chewy.com, an online retailer of pet food and other pet-related products, took their customer service a step further and replied to their message.
Talk about creating a loyal customer.
3) Make shopping as simple as a conversation
In 2019, customers will be less likely to cut you some slack if you don't simplify and personalize the experience. Instead of promoting the same products to everyone, they expect you to deliver exceptional, optimized experiences that revolve around their in-the-moment needs, not previous buying habits.
Conversion tip 3: Stop inconveniencing customers with choice overload and unjustified complexity. Instead, focus on giving customers what they want (exactly when they want it) to increase engagement and conversions.
There's a justified buzz surrounding chatbots and digital assistants and their ability to drive conversions. They guide your customers throughout their entire journey and pave the path to seamless 1:1 personalization, at scale.
The good news is that these technologies are becoming much less expensive and easier to use and are proven to dramatically increase conversion rates and profits.
89% of businesses report seeing measurable benefits from personalization.
Take Mizuno, for example. This sporting goods company provides their website visitors with an AI "sales rep" that uses machine learning to ask the right questions and understand more about its customers.
With each question, it gets to know a customer so well that it knows exactly which products match their unique needs and have a high probability of being purchased by the customer.
Mizuno is an example of how companies can get personal and conversational in e-commerce. Once the user has answered the questions, the AI will show them the perfect running shoe.
Find more tips in part 2

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Boston's Photo Resource Center will be exhibiting prints available for purchase through its Print Program in their main gallery from September 17th – November 1st.
The Print Program contains limited edition, vintage prints made specifically for the Program and includes work by some of the country's and region's finest photographers working in a variety of subjects, formats, and processes.
If you can't make it to the exhibit in person, images of all available prints can be seen here, and people interested in making a purchase can email or call the PRC using the contact info on the page. Proceeds from sales help support the PRC, a non-profit whose mission is to be a forum "for the exploration, interpretation, and celebration of new work, ideas, and methods in photography."


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Spring is here and with Spring time comes allergies. With another harsh allergy season ahead, taking measures to reduce allergens in your workplace is more important than ever. Here in North Carolina, that means the yellow dust, aka, pollen is about to take over the state and our lives.
While it may seem like a losing battle to keep allergens from taking over your office and home, there are ways to minimize the allergens even when it feels like they've taken over.
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has six recommendations for improving indoor air quality and reducing allergy symptoms:
- Control dust mites.
Keep surfaces in clean and uncluttered. Bare floors and walls are best, but if your facility has carpet, professional cleaning removes dirt, pollen, allergens, dust, and other particles deep within your carpet's fibers.
- Vacuum once or twice weekly.
Vacuuming helps keep allergens to a minimum, so speak with your cleaning contractor if you need to change your vacuuming schedule.
- Prevent animal dander.
If yours is a progressive workplace that allows employees to bring their dogs to work, whether occasionally or regularly, keep in mind that most doctors advise people allergic to animal dander to avoid pets with feathers or fur.
- Prevent entry of pollen by keeping windows and doors closed.
Air conditioning in warm weather is best and also helps control dust mites by reducing humidity. Change filters often in window units.
- Avoid mold spores.
Reduce moisture around the bathrooms, kitchen and other areas with water. Fix all leaks and other causes of dampness.
- Control cockroaches carefully.
Use poison baits, boric acid and traps rather than chemical agents that can irritate rhinitis and asthma.
These steps, while they may seem tedious, will help you with the battle against pollen spores and other allergens that invade our homes and office during Springtime. Regular cleanings with "green friendly" products can help your workplace remain free of allergens and dangerous chemical agents. Consult with your local commercial cleaning company, such as Servicemaster of Wake County, on ways regular cleanings and janitorial services can minimize allergens and thus the time employees are out sick due to allergies. Stay safe this Spring season, and ward off allergens with regular dusting, cleaning and sanitizing practices.


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Discover DECENT plan how make the ideas of fully decentralized and independent media distribution system come true. The development plan and roadmap of DECENT Network is now available!
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Over the past two years, Westgate River Ranch Resort & Rodeo has earned the Gene Kilgore "World's Best Ranches Award" from RanchWeb.com "in recognition of excellence, your unwavering dedication to guest ranching, along with the superb hospitality you share with guests." RanchWeb.com is the #1 website for dude ranch vacations worldwide, and Westgate River Ranch was cited for its high quality of service and dedicated equestrian program, as well as for achieving Best of Class standing among dude ranches and receiving excellent testimonials from guests.
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In case the title isn't self-explanatory, it's subtitled "From ABBA to ZZ Top, How Rock Bands Got Their Names." This is an excellent reference book that actually reads well from start to finish, too. The problem with rock band names is that many of the published explanations are just plain wrong. Sometimes a record label publicist will put out a false story because it's more clever or less embarrassing than the truth. Other times, band members will make up stories during interviews, maybe just for their own amusement or because they dislike the reporter. Dolgins figured this out and decided to conduct his own interviews (usually by phone or fax), and he was surprisingly successful in getting responses.
Even the stories about bands I don't like or haven't heard are interesting, and it's an easy book to pick up and put down if you only have a few minutes at a time to read (I know what you're thinking, but no, I did not read this in the bathroom!). I think it's better to read the whole book than to browse from entry to entry because there is one notable shortcoming: a lack of cross-referencing. For example, Dolgins asks Randy Bachman about the names "The Guess Who" and "Bachman-Turner Overdrive" since he was in both bands. This interview is listed under "The Guess Who". There should be a listing for "Bachman-Turner Overdrive" that says "See 'The Guess Who'" but there is not.
Aside from that, which affects perhaps 12-15 entries, this is a great reference work full of colorful stories. After reading this book, you'll never think of The Lovin' Spoonful the same way ever again!
Note: I read the "new and revised" second edition of this book from 1996. A third edition, which is 70 pages longer, was published in 1998.


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Moonstone is a mystical stone with its chatoyant 'moonglow' that moves across the gem. Moonstone comes in many shades – most people recognise the rainbow moonstone (a white background with blue/yellow glow) however there is a regular moonstone that is a creamy/white with white glow, a peachy version and this beautiful grey variety with a very noticeable moon glow chatoyancy as the gem moves.
The beautiful gem needed little added adornment so I simply hand wrapped the top with sterling silver and added a bail and chain.
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Healthy Cocoa Popcorn
2-cup portion is approximately 85 calories
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- 1/2 teaspoon salt (may reduce or omit)
- 1 tablespoon hot cocoa mix
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- Put vented cover on top and microwave on high for approx. 3-5 minutes, when there are 1-2 second between pops. Microwave times will vary.
- While still hot, sprinkle with cocoa mix; toss until evenly coated.
Garlic Parmesan Popcorn
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- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- cracked pepper
- a pinch of salt
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Private James H VanHorn
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VanHorn was born in Wisconsin on January 21, 1845. He was residing in Spring Prairie (Walworth County), Wisconsin when he enlisted and mustered in the regiment on February 14, 1865. He served 1 year and was discharged on February 19, 1866.
The 48th Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Milwaukee in February and March 1865. The unit was assigned to Kansas for provost duty and was stationed at Fort Scott.
VanHorn died on September 2, 1936 at the age of 91 years. He is buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Norfolk (Madison County), Nebraska. VanHorn was a member of two Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic Posts:
Matthewson Post (#109) in Norfolk, Nebraska.
Lauman Post (#193) in Plainview, Nebraska.
Doc – VanHorn(48WISC).doc
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Ekuan had a difficult childhood: his father died from radiation poisoning, from the atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima. He decided to stand in for his father, a Buddhist priest, and became a monk. But he noticed that the devastation in Hiroshima spoke to him: the destroyed objects, he said, told him they wished they had been used more. "Faced with that nothingness, I felt a great nostalgia for human culture," he said. In 1950, he remembered, the U.S. occupation forces established a "cultural intellectual education center" in Hiroshima. "I remember this elegant smiling woman," he said, "wearing lipstick, and nylon stockings and high heels, showing me a book of American design. I even remember the title: 'Never Leave Well Enough Alone'." He went back to school and graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and became an industrial designer.
"Design to me has always meant making people happy. Happy in the sense of creating items that provide comfort, convenience, function, aesthetics and ethics," he said later. "Our biggest mistake? Making people the priority. I now believe good design should be in balance with nature." His most famous design is the bottle for Kikkoman soy sauce, introduced in 1961 and exported around the world. Well over 300 million have been sold, and it has been added to the permanent collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art, in its Humble Masterpieces exhibition. Ekuan also designed the look of Japan's Akita Bullet Train, the Yamaha VMAX motorcycle, and a Yamaha piano, among other items. He died February 8, from Sick Sinus Syndrome — an arrhythmia caused by problems with the heart's primary natural pacemaker, the sinus node. He was 85.


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How Much Does A Bathroom Remodel Cost In The Coral Gables And Miami, Florida Area?
The most common reason why a lot of people are having problems when it comes to finding the best general contractor is that they do not fully understand the tasks that should be done. According to an annual construction cost survey by Remodeling Magazine, a mid-range remodel of a 5×7-foot bathroom averages $14,109-$18,864; for an upscale expansion of a 5×7 bathroom to 9×9-feet within the existing house footprint, costs run $46,865-$59,456.
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The average cost to remodel a 1/2 bathroom is $3,000, the average cost to remodel a 3/4 bathroom is $6,000, the average cost to remodel a full bathroom is $8,000 and the average cost to remodel a master bathroom with a separate bathtub and shower is $14,000.
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One annoying things that took some time to solve was that on the Start page of Netbeans there are URL's to several articles, blog posts and so one, but every time I've pressed one of the it say's that it could not execute Firefox.
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I had the best time shooting this look last saturday with the beautiful young lady – Katja Grobelnik. I have fell in love with her work she shows on her instagram account @portraits.by.katja and have manage to get (forced 😁) her to come to ljubljana.
I got inspired from the 70's and wanted to create a modern 70's look on the top of the hotel Intercontinental Ljubljana.
I think this outfit is super wearable. Also, I'm kinda obsessed with hoop and all kind of big earings lately as I have bough at leat 6 pair in the last 6 months. I think it's my thing and I will show some more looks with them.
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Illinois' divorce laws are found in the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (IMDMA) which contains specific sections regarding virtually every aspect of a divorce case--from property, child support, and maintenance, to college expenses, parenting time, and decision-making rights. Although the IMDMA has been in place for nearly 40 years, it has undergone a number of revisions and amendments, and recently, has significantly changed longstanding Illinois law in a number of crucial areas.
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North Sea Gas have struck gold again with a new show and new album Rosslyn. After a hectic three week Fringe schedule I arrived at the Acoustic Music Centre rather tired, footsore and weary. Ten minutes later I was singing, clapping and stomping along, laughing and thoroughly enjoying a first class evening of entertainment - that's the North Sea Gas effect!
Playing to a full and enthusiastic house, the band treated us to an evening of wonderful music, laughter and fun. I've never heard North Sea Gas give a bad concert and I'm sure now that they wouldn't know how.
There is a wonderful warmth and integrity to North Sea Gas. They clearly love what they do and that enjoyment ripples through the audience. They have a terrific knack of drawing people in to their own blend of traditional and modern Scottish and Irish folk music. The music is very much a shared experience and there is a very genuine appreciation of their fans.
When Dave Gilfillan, who founded North Sea Gas, thanks the audience for being there you know he means it. At one stage Ronnie MacDonald (Mac) says to the others "Can you feel the love?" and they jokingly respond "Naw, that's just the lights!" The love is real and tangible though - to and from the band. Too often local bands change when they become well known and travel the world, but not North Sea Gas. They are the same down to earth, straight talking guys they have always been. There are no airs and graces, just fantastic music.
The current line up of Dave, Mac and Grant Simpson work so well together. Their vocal harmonies are rich, melodic and a sheer joy to the ear. The creative use of a range of instruments including mandolin and mandola is innovative and inspiring. Their musicianship is first class.
It's a pleasure to see how they support one another so that each of the trio have a chance to shine. There are no egos battling here, just three guys with a deep love of music exploring how to constantly improve and make the experience more interesting each time.
North Sea Gas have kept their loyal fan base through a unique formula:- preserve the beat of the old, add the best of the new and have fun with it. (I won't say that the same could be said of the line up as I am ages with the more mature band members!) They constantly come up with new arrangements and variations on old singalong classics like Killiecrankie; I Will Go and Bonnie Lass O'Fyvie and everyone enjoys joining in. They also introduce the audience to wonderful new songs like Karine Polwart's Follow the heron which is magical, poetic and melodic. The last bit of the winning formula is the humour which runs through each show:- the banter, the jokes and the audience participation numbers like Matt McGinn's The job song with their added verse.
Grant Simpson is a phenomenal fiddle player. He has settled so well now, vocally and instrumentally and has brought yet more freshness to their music. He can play that fiddle like a man possessed. North Sea Gas's music carries them and us to a place where it's impossible not to feel good - even without whisky!
The Fringe set showcases the new CD which also has new material and creative arrangements of old favourites.
North Sea Gas were not allowed to leave without an encore, naturally, and they finished again with the wonderful Our Town.
Dave Gilfillan's amazing voice just keeps getting better. It is a rich, deep expansive sound which reverberates around the room, making you laugh and cry by turns and proud to be Scottish / Irish and a fan of the timeless North Sea Gas.
The only downside of their international success is that we don't see enough of them in Edinburgh. They are about to tour America again. Haste ye back boys, we all miss you!
© Mairi Anderson, 26 August 2007. First published on www.edinburghguide.com


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HR funding closed out 2016 with a record deal count of 402 deals worth collectively around $2.2 billion in funding. Subsequently in 2017, AI, live chat, sentiment analysis, and team communication products are abound in the HR tech marketplace. However, even with the proliferation of HR communications technology, cutting through the noise and reaching candidates continues to prove challenging. The single exception seems to be text message which maintains 99% open rates.
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The number 62,300,000 is the population of the United Kingdom which provides a big market for those who want an international buzz for their product. UK marketing demands good tactics for costumers. UK marketing is a great platform for entrepreneurs especially if they are related to food, fashion and literature. There are certain tips for UK marketing that can lead a marketer to the top.
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All those who want to launch their new product or service for UK marketing your initial step should be the study of your competition. If you are aware of SWOT analysis, then you could be a gem in UK marketing. Observe competitors that offer the product exactly like the product that you are planning to launch. You think that you are going to launch a unique product or service in the world of UK marketing, put yourself in customers' shoes and think what they might buy instead of what plan you offer. When you decide who your competitors will be, examine their marketing plans, including ads and banners.
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UK marketing could provide you a great outcome of your product if you have awareness of your target prospect. A keen focus is essential of prospects you think will buy from you. These may be the costumers who are actually buying the similar product or availing the similar service will love to have some new benefits that you offer.
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You should have a good intellect regarding your offer to be different from your competitors and why costumer will avails your offer. You should know why costumers will prefer your product over your competitors? What kind benefits your offer contains that a costumer will value? In a nutshell your product and service should be unique and meets the desires of UK marketing system.
Your marketing strategies and tactics should stand apart from your competitors. One big source of promoting your product in UK marketing is the electronic media. You can use it. Allow key press to review your product or hold a launch event. Second most effective medium is print media because people in UK are habitual of reading. So, magazines and newspapers could be a big source. Other than this, you can use articles and win interviews to build a buzz.
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You should be aware of your product's life. Monitor your marketing skills carefully, when you begin to see the diminishing returns it is the indication that this is the time to revise your product or service or alter your media message.
Once you product or service is launched in UK marketing system ensure the ethics and philosophy of your organization is sound. Modern consumer today in UK are more interested than ever in corporate integrity which is defined by ethics and philosophy of an organization.
Good product, unique features, creative marketing ideas, strong hold on consumer's approach and awareness of your product's life, are the keys for a great launch in UK market. Once you have launched your product keep on updating your marketing tactics in order to be the best in your business.


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Fear and greed are said to be the forces that drive the markets just as some believe the universe is directed by forces of good and evil. Yes in markets greed is genuinely considered to be good rather than evil because most market participants desire increasing market prices rather than the opposite. Greed is what makes home values go up and it what makes stocks worth selling. Fear can quickly cause prices to collapse. When the markets get into me too greed expectation of higher prices mode there tend to be a lot more participants and a lot more money flooding in that has to cause prices to rise irrespective of their intrinsic value as investments. Greed becomes a orgy of excess . Most everyone enjoys the boom times. The industry of selling greed is quick to develop and it will thrive even in times when panic causes greed to be gone. The sellers of fear survive in boom time markets but they hardly thrive. No one wants to worry about the inevitable coming crash because it could come at any time. It could come today tomorrow or ten years from now. Boom times can also generate inflationary pressures and that can only extend the need to buy even if it does not produce actual bargains.
The Market conditions where selling fear becomes more popular than selling greed is pure exploitation. Sellers of fear actually do hope for self fulfilling prophesy. Before the big stock market crash these people were active and as usual they predicted a major market crash. The Popular press zooms in on these people as if hero's and Prophets for predicting what everyone else failed to predict but if you were not a market spring chicken you would know that the same people predicted the same thing for the past ten -twenty years . Had you listened to them when they last told you to sell everything and gone to cash rather than staying invested you would have missed the greatest bull market in history. If they were your broker they would have still made money and you would have lost yours or at least ended up having cash with eroded value due to inflation.
Gold and other collectible precious metals have always been fear being sold. The market for gold is a bit more complex because it is sold as a mixture of fear and greed which is a sort of hedge in itself. Gold can completely overshoot the value it has a hedge against currency inflation/ devaluation of the currency. It has done it before and it certainly looks like it is there now since Gold production costs can be lower than 1/3 of the market price. As a commodity , gold is subject to market supply and demand. In the recession market of 2010 gold reached new non-adjusted for inflation market prices with much of the excess demand generated by fear selling tactics. The fear sellers are able to overpower the reasoning that in an atmosphere of gross market deflation that gold should be appreciating when there is no present moment inflation. Market prices are here and inflation is somewhere out in the future. Maybe at some point there will be enough inflation to make it worthwhile buying gold at recession/ inflation fear prices . Time will tell. What is strange though is that government central banks who should know better than to buy gold at prices substantially above base mining costs is that they are in a frenzy to buy gold when it is most expensive. It is fear marketing that has them behaving in this manner. The market bubble in gold prices will continue to rise until at some point the psychology changes and fear selling begins.
There is an atmosphere of fear where gold is sold. Just turn on Fox News or some similar news station where ads to "Acquire" gold, which is lingo for buy at an excessive price that benefits the producer and brokers involved as a certainty and you hear slogans on these TV stations like "Fox News, Have no fear." A slogan similar to that goes back into the Bush Administration years with fox. That attitude is the prefect place to market fear to the masses. The question for those willing to part with their money "acquiring" gold should be why are these idiots selling gold so cheap if it is going to double in five years? The second question is who is more likely the idiot? Me buying gold from experts who are selling it with wild abandon or the experts selling because the price does have to go up eventually? Fear sells gold and so does greed. Greed coupled with fear can sell even more gold.
Gold is just one part of the growing fear selling industry. The fear selling industry includes reverse ETFs which are stock shorting fund. Even the US Treasury is involved selling non interest rate bearing or very low interest bearing treasury bonds and notes. Fear marketing and fear of recessionary deflation has the treasury raking in money for bonds and notes. Offering safety and security of principal might be their biggest selling point. Growing government indebtedness then has the gold bugs buying up more of the glitter stuff. Recently the pimco investment stock and bond mutual fund company announced it has created funds designed to make money if the economy and market collapses. That is the latest in the trend toward selling fear as the contemporary fear sales tactic trend. Since it has the greed component too one might be a little suspicious that the timeliness of this investment will reward investors. The trend is getting so perverse that we might be seeing a chain of stores open that specialize in selling fear instead of more positive values.
Some super stock market investors are well aware of the fear selling pressures in the markets. These people work to augment that fear for their own advantage. They attempt to get the maximum number of people fearful enough they sell while waiting for a lower market price threshold to buy up what they inspired others to sell. This selling goes on in a range from the highs tot he market lows. The idea of the professional fear sellers is to get people to throw away everything they own of value so they can come in and pick it off the ground practically for free. The confusion in the market place comes in with the understanding that short sellers only have an appetite for selling. If not them directly some other consolidator will be buying. Stocks require both a buyer and a seller for the transaction to occur in the first place.
Selling fear can be very lucrative business. Ample evidence exists that the entire market collapse and banking collapse and freeze was due to success of selling of fear professionals. It is true that the federal reserve could have prevented the entire sub prime housing market collapse just by lowering interest rates instead of raising them. People who had adjustable rate mortgages knew they could make the payments so long as the interest rates stayed low as what they had expected when they bought their homes. There did seem to be a conspiracy at work to cause the crash beyond the federal reserve and that was in election year heavy machinery coming out that seemingly was designed to cause the market crash that did occur Subsequent to that was the very suspicious "Flash Crash". The Flash Crash still looks like a conspiracy to generate a second market crash because there are people in the industry who feel they missed out on the market's return to favor and profitability. Fear sellers can control the market only for so long before greed in a major way comes back as irrepressible. No predicting exactly when.