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At the end of last year, I received an email from Amazon with an invitation to join their Vendor program. After careful consideration, I decided to decline their offer and not participate in this program. Why? Let's find out!
Amazon Vendor program—what it is and how does it work?
First of all, the Amazon Vendor program not a public program, so you can't join without an invite, even if you wanted to. Amazon manually selects sellers with a good track record and strong sales and then invites them to join the program. There's a special job role at Amazon called Vendor Program Managers. These people handle the vetting process and actively look for brands they want to include in this program.
When you join the Amazon Vendor program, you basically give away keys to your brand on Amazon TO Amazon. Essentially, they become the seller of your product and you become a supplier. In practice, you sell your products to Amazon at wholesale prices and they sell the products for you. On your product listings, the seller will change from your name to Sold by Amazon.
Sounds great, right? It's a dream come true for many businesses to work directly with Amazon! Not so fast, my friends…
Yes, at the very beginning, I was excited and thought that I would join. However, I started to do some research online and tried to find more information, such as other sellers' experiences, but I couldn't find much. There were some, but they were mostly posts from US-based Amazon sellers. Plus, there weren't many from private-label brand owners. The general feedback wasn't positive either. People mentioned problems with deliveries (more on that in a minute), cash-flow challenges and other issues.
Still, I wanted to get all the information directly from Amazon, so I scheduled a call with my Vendor Program Manager to find out all the bits and pieces that were missing from the puzzle at that time.
On that call, I got all the information I needed to make my decision NOT to join the Vendor program. Here's why I decided to decline the offer:
Inventory management
With the Vendor program, Amazon places an order with you on a weekly basis. Essentially, each week, they send you a purchase order for the items they need from you at the quantities that they want. You have to send that stock to Amazon within five days and then raise an invoice.
This means that I would be spending extra time on this process and using courier deliveries instead of pallet deliveries, which would add extra cost and would make my inventory planning process more complicated.
Amazon offered to pay me £4 per unit (+VAT) for items that I sell for £9.99 (inc. VAT). Plus, they take a 10% rebate off that for marketing and damaged/defective products. So, the final price I would receive from Amazon is £3.60 per unit sold. After my product costs and shipping costs, that would leave me with approx. £2.60 NET profit per unit sold.
I didn't like that at all. I currently make an average of £4 profit per unit sold, which is a big difference. From the research I did online, some people said that you can negotiate the pricing with Amazon, but I didn't do that. It is very unlikely that they would move from £4 to £5, and even without this issue, taking everything else into consideration, I had already decided not to proceed with the application. But if you're in a similar position, make sure to negotiate the pricing of your products because you could most likely improve on the initial offer.
Lack of control
With the Vendor program, Amazon becomes the seller of your product. They can then do whatever they want, like lower the price over time, offer discounts, etc.
They could basically squeeze your margins even further if they think that your pricing is too high at that moment or that they could make more money by selling your product for less. The idea of this potentially happening was a big red flag for me.
Cash-flow issues
Amazon is very smart, and I don't blame them.
With the Vendor program, they place an order with you on a weekly basis, but they pay you for those orders 60 days later.
What a clever model, right? Order items from suppliers that cover say two to three weeks of sales, SELL THEM, and then only pay the supplier after 60 days have passed. For them, this program is totally risk-free. They get free products from suppliers, sell them, maybe make some extra money on the financial markets, then only have to pay the supplier 60 days later. Fantastic!
For me personally, this wouldn't be such a huge issue. I could support that model as I have cash reserves. Plus, it's not like we're getting our money into our bank accounts instantly right now anyway, but I think 60 days is extreme. 30 days would be perfectly fine, but 60 days is simply too much.
And yes, I know that NET-60 terms are very common in the traditional wholesale/retail game and that some large retailers push even harder with NET-90 or NET-120 terms. But when I was considering the Vendor program, this was yet another reason why I decided to pass the offer.
Although these four issues were good reasons to be on the fence with my decision, the most important reason why I decided not to join the Vendor program is very simple: I could not see how it would BENEFIT me to join.
Let me explain by showcasing the key benefits that Amazon promotes as reasons why sellers should join the Vendor program:
- Prime and "As sold and dispatched by Amazon" on your full catalogue: products listed with this have significantly higher conversion rates, as it boosts customer trust in your brand by association.
I'm using FBA, so I already have the Prime badge on all my listings. Joining the Vendor program wouldn't make any difference to me in that regard.
"Sold by Amazon"—yes, this could be a conversion booster, but the question is: by how much? We know from surveys that most customers on Amazon don't even realise that most of Amazon's products are sold by third-party suppliers, so "Sold by Amazon" may not even be that important.
Yes, it could be that Amazon is prioritising their own listings in the search results, but even if that is happening right now, with all the investigations going on by the EU into Amazon, they will probably have to stop doing it. Online marketplaces are becoming subject to stricter regulations, so they won't be able to play nasty games like this anymore in the near future.
- Streamlined operations: a direct-to-Amazon relationship, which means you won't need to deal with customer service and logistics for each sale.
As I'm already using FBA, so I don't have to deal with customer support anyways. I get just a few messages per week and they are all people asking for an invoice (which, of course, is already available on their Orders page because I'm using a VAT invoicing system), so this is not a real benefit to me.
- No selling or warehousing fees: you sell your items at trade price and we take care of the rest.
Yes, there are no FBA or seller fees, but Amazon is actually paying me LESS, so my NET profit per product sold is LESS than what I make now while paying FBA and seller fees. So, there's no real financial benefit at all.
- Volume boost: our vendors typically experience a 2-3 times sales uplift (against their previous marketplace volumes).
I find it hard to believe that I would get a two to three times boost in sales just from the "Sold by Amazon" feature. I think that they get this number by taking into account customers who were not previously using the FBA and Pan-EU programs. More on that later.
There would most likely be a small boost in sales, but not two or three times my current volume. This promise is based on nothing.
- Control over product listings: as a direct Amazon supplier, you take control of your brand's images and item information.
I already have 100% control of my images and listing descriptions. Yay! What a great benefit!
- In-house training: you'd be invited into our headquarters for training and receive an account manager to support your Amazon business.
I can't see how I could benefit from this. From watching Amazon's webinars, the training seems to be fairly simple and only covers basic stuff. I think my fifteen years of e-commerce experience is more valuable than that.
- UK and EU online presence: no additional cost to distribute your products across the EU from our warehouses and no need to be VAT registered in each market.
I'm already using the Pan-EU program and sell my products on all five marketplaces. Again, not a real benefit—at least, for me.
As you can see, taking into account my current business situation and the fact that I'm already using FBA, Amazon's invoicing system and the Pan-EU program, there's really not that much I can benefit from with the Vendor program.
When I take into consideration the lower profit, weekly deliveries and delayed payments, suddenly the whole thing doesn't look like that good of a deal, right?
The "Sold by Amazon" certainly carries some weight, but how much? It's very hard to tell…
The only other real benefit for me would be that with the Vendor program, you get access to more marketing tools. For example, I could upload a video to my product listings. But knowing that this feature is already available in the US for all sellers, I predict that it will also be made available in the UK/EU marketplaces later on this year.
Amazon also told me that I would be able to use variations for my listings, which is currently not an option for my product category. But again, in the US, variations are available for my product category, so it's probably just a matter of time before they make the same feature available in the UK.
Taking all the "benefits" and drawbacks into consideration, I decided NOT to join the Amazon Vendor program, and I think I made the right choice. I will probably lose out on some extra sales, but overall, I don't think this program would benefit me that much.
Does it mean that the Amazon Vendor program is total rubbish, and no one else should use it?
No, I do think that there are two scenarios where sellers could greatly benefit from the program:
1) If you're currently selling in just one marketplace (say the UK or Germany) and you're not using the FBA program or the Pan-EU program, and don't have VAT numbers in European countries, this program may actually be a good fit.
Amazon will handle the order fulfilment, customer support and sell your products in Europe. You get the Prime badge, the "Sold by Amazon" listing status and it will definitely boost your sales. I think these are the types of sellers who could see that two to three times sales increase Amazon mentions in the benefits list. Going from a single-market FBM seller to a multi-country seller with Prime/Sold by Amazon listings will definitely boost your conversion rates and sales.
Plus, this is an easy way to get your products exposed to the EU marketplaces without going through the VAT registration process and doing monthly VAT returns.
2) If you're a wholesaler or importer with hundreds of thousands of product lines and not using FBA at the moment.
From doing research online, I found that many sellers in the US who have tried OR are part of the Vendor program are actually wholesalers. For them, this program makes total sense as they deal with Amazon just like any other retailer. They're used to frequent purchase orders, NET-60 payment terms and everything else. Perfect fit!
However, I did find some negative comments about shipments going missing, Amazon doing incorrect sales forecasts, lots of stock getting returned to the seller, etc., so it's not all rosy. But I can at least see the benefits of joining the program if you're a wholesaler or distributor.
If you fall into either of these two groups, you could consider joining the Vendor program, and it may actually work out well for you. You'll still have to wait for that invitation, though, as there's no official way to apply for this program.
If you want to, you can search for "Amazon Vendor UK" on LinkedIn to find the contact details for Vendor Program Managers. Then, you can send them a message to at least inform/raise awareness that you have such a brand and you're interested in joining the program. Of course, look for UK-based managers if you're targeting the Amazon.co.uk platform.
You will still have to have a great product and brand, as well as a proven track of record of sales for them to even consider you, but you may get lucky.
Also, from the phone call I had with the Vendor Program Manager, I understand that each manager has a yearly quota to fill, so December is probably a good time to use this strategy (LinkedIn contact), as the year is ending and they have to fill those unused places! Maybe that's why I received my invitation in December—I was probably on the B or C list (lol) and was only invited because they had to fill up those empty spaces! 🙂
And that's about it! That is my experience and thoughts on the Amazon Vendor program. It would be great if there was more information available online—at least some success stories from sellers who found the program valuable—as maybe then my decision would have been different. But it is what it is, and I don't regret my choice at all.
At the very beginning, what got me excited was the thought that Amazon would handle the PPC advertising for me, which would be a game-changer. But it turned out that as Amazon Vendor sellers, we would still have to do our PPC campaigns and pay for all the clicks—just like we do now but at lower net profit margins!!!
Amazon will spend a very small amount on PPC for your product (5% of £4 is 20p, which is not enough to cover the cost of even one click in the category I'm working in), and the best part is that YOU PAY that 20p! They take it off you rather than invest their own money into advertising the product. So that's that…
Ok, I really hope that by sharing my experience, I can help other sellers make the right decision for them, especially when there is so little information available online about the Vendor program. But more importantly, I hope that with this post, I can get some eyeballs from active Amazon Vendor program sellers and they can share their stories/experiences with others!
If you are currently participating in the Vendor program, I would really appreciate if you could share your experience by leaving a comment below the post. Thanks in advance!


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Monday, January 2, 2017
Resident Evil Steelbook Blu-rays at Best Buy
Just in time for the last film in the series, unless it makes enough money to justify a sequel is special edition Resident Evil Steelbook Blu-rays at Best Buy. I recently watched all the original films in order over Winter break and they still don't make sense after the second movie. When one person asks how can the movies go on when the world ended the other says lets make another Maze Runner film, I mean Resident Evil movie.
Anyway, do cool things happening in films 3-5, yes...so possible reason to buy. Me, I just like all that Umbrella Corporation stuff.
Each Blu-ray will be $17.99 and out 1/17/17 and comes
with up to $7.50 in movie cash to see Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, because Sony doesn't have high hopes for it. It's coming out in January.
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One great advantage of API Management is centralising auth concerns, thereby avoiding burdensome reimplementation issues and streamlining your security processes. The good news is that you can easily configure apiman to handle many common auth use-cases, such as OAuth2 with our popular Keycloak OAuth2 policy which I'll outline in this blogpost.
For this example, let's assume we're using apiman's quickstart setup and have it running. I suggest using the 'Or simply try this…' box.
After you have your apiman quickstart running (replace apiman-1.2.0.Final in the path below with whatever version you downloaded), we can live deploy a handy echo service into our environment, so we have an API to test against:
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/apiman/apiman-quickstarts.git
cd apiman-quickstarts/echo-service
git checkout 1.2.0.Final
mvn clean install
mvn wildfly:deploy
Installing the Plugin
Those amongst you with some experience of apiman may have noticed that the OAuth2 policy doesn't appear in the standard list of policies in the manager UI; that's because the OAuth2 policy is an example of an apiman plugin, all of which are shipped separately from apiman, but are trivially easy to install.
When logged into the apiman manager UI as an administrator (for the quickstart that's u:`admin`, p:`admin123!`), navigate to the manage plugins page:
Tab to Available Plugins, select Install for Keycloak OAuth Policy Plugin, confirm the plugin coordinates, and click Add Plugin. That's it!
Setting Up
There are two essential components to our system. First, is the Keycloak server, an all-in-one SSO and IdM platform; we'll configure it to be our identity source and handle the issuance of OAuth2 bearer tokens. Second, is the apiman OAuth2 policy; we'll set it up to validate the tokens precisely to our requirements.
Let's assume we're going to protect a very simple echo service, which echoes back to the requestor the details of any request made to it. It is located at
Keycloak Server
|There are a huge number of configuration permutations with Keycloak, and the most suitable approach will vary according to your requirements. It is highly recommended to consult the Keycloak guides to determine your optimal setup, as for the sake of brevity we're only going to cover a couple of trivial preconfigured scenarios.
First, log into the Keycloak server. If you're following our walkthrough, the log-in details are identical to those mentioned earlier (
admin123!). You can see that there is already an apiman realm defined, but we're going to create a new one, so navigate to Add Realm (top right), and import and upload this demonstration realm definition; it provides an extremely simple setup where we have:
A realm:
A single user:
rincewind, with password:
apimanand a realm role:
And, a client:
apiman, which is allowed direct grants via Keycloak's RESTful Direct Access Grants API.
Let's quickly test requesting ourselves an OpenID Connect OAuth2 token:
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/stottie/protocol/openid-connect/token -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d "username=rincewind" -d 'password=apiman' -d 'grant_type=password' -d 'client_id=apiman'
This should return some JSON similar to the following:
"access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9...<SNIP>",
"expires_in": 300,
"refresh_expires_in": 1800,
"refresh_token": "eyJhbGcg...<SNIP>",
"not-before-policy": 0,
"session-state": "69974623-be8b-49d7-840a-0330c6bdde21"
Notice that the OAuth2 token we're interested in is contained within the
access_token field, with useful ancillary information about token validity and refreshing.
In this instance, the access token is a signed OpenID Connect JSON Web Token (JWT). Using the handy decoder available at jwt.io, we can see a lot interesting information, including the
echomiester realm role defined on
"jti": "c89b8cf7-84ef-4f02-9954-f8d3d4321473",
"exp": 1433414538,
"nbf": 0,
"iat": 1433414238,
"iss": "http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/stottie",
"aud": "apiman",
"sub": "de4af322-85b2-4dbe-8d53-6a2ee29e4080",
"azp": "apiman",
"session_state": "69974623-be8b-49d7-840a-0330c6bdde21",
"client_session": "b5bd36a0-d576-4593-be7b-4648612c25b8",
"allowed-origins": [],
"realm_access": {
"roles": [
"resource_access": {
"account": {
"roles": [
"name": "",
"preferred_username": "rincewind"
This demonstrates one OpenID Connect's most useful attributes: all the information required to validate a request is contained within the token itself.
Apiman OAuth2 Policy
First, log into apiman, and Create a New Organization; let's call it Newcastle. Select the APIs tab, and add a New API; we'll name this one EchoAPI and then Create API.
Select the Implementation tab, and set the endpoint to our echo service,
http://localhost:8080/apiman-echo. Save and move onto the Plans tab, where you should opt to Make this API public. After saving, we can move onto the Policies tab, where the interesting stuff starts.
Navigate to Add Policy, and select Keycloak OAuth Policy from the drop-down list. A substantial set of options are available for your perusal, but for the purposes of this blog demo we'll set the following:
The path to our realm [1]. Note that in older versions of Keycloak (pre
Keycloak Realm Certificate
Base64 encoded cert
Paste your Keycloak realm certificate.
Forward Authorization Roles
Forward Realm Roles, and set Forward Realm Roles? to true
If we decide to use the authorization policy later, we'll forward the realm roles contained within the token (i.e.
Forward Keycloak Token Information
Set header
Select Add Policy, and then Publish the API. You can see its endpoint information in the Endpoint tab, it should be similar to:
Testing Authentication
Let's test our setup with cURL to see whether our request is denied if we don't use a token:
[msavy@mmbp tmp]$ curl -k https://127.0.0.1:8443/apiman-gateway/Newcastle/EchoAPI/1.0
"type": "Authentication",
"failureCode": 11005,
"responseCode": 401,
"message": "OAuth2 'Authorization' header or 'access_token' query parameter must be provided.",
"headers": {}
Excellent, it all seems to be working! Notice that we're using self-signed certificates for this demo, so the
-k flag will skip certificate validation.
Next, let's do a request with a token. There are two ways to attach your bearer token to a request. Either:
Authorizationheader, as
Authorization: Bearer <token>
access_tokenquery parameter, as
First, let's retrieve a fresh token from Keycloak, and extract the
access_token field from the json using
jq [2].
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/realms/stottie/protocol/openid-connect/token -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d 'username=rincewind' -d 'password=apiman' -d 'grant_type=password' -d 'client_id=apiman' | jq -r '.access_token'
Second, we'll take the token and attach it to our request to the API
[msavy@mmbp tmp]$ curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiJiNDY1YW..." https://127.0.0.1:8443/apiman-gateway/Newcastle/EchoAPI/1.0
"method" : "GET",
"resource" : "/apiman-echo",
"uri" : "/apiman-echo",
"headers" : {
"Authorization" : "Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiJiNDY1YWMzNi1hMTczLTRjOWMtYWJjZS00MzE2MJ...",
"Host" : "127.0.0.1:8080",
"User-Agent" : "curl/7.37.1",
"Accept" : "*/*",
"Connection" : "keep-alive",
"Cache-Control" : "no-cache",
"Pragma" : "no-cache",
"X-AZP": "apiman"
"bodyLength" : null,
"bodySha1" : null,
"counter" : 1
Great, it worked! We can see EchoAPI has now been reached, meaning our OAuth2 token was validated successfully, and it sent us back a response which includes the bearer token we used (you can strip this out in the options).
Furthermore, you can see our
X-AZP header has been set to the expected value of
apiman, which was pulled from the token.
If you're feeling lazy, here's an all-in-one script to do it for you.
Adding Authorization
We're going to develop our example a little bit further. At present, we simply have a binary approach where we either allow or disallow based upon which realm the token was issued from. If we want a more granular approach where we can discriminate upon roles, then we need to add another element: Authorization.
The more observant readers will note that we have already added two of the required elements when we imported the realm into Keycloak; namely, a user
rincewind and a realm role
If we navigate back to the EchoAPI API in the apiman UI, we can create a New Version. We'll call it 2.0 and clone the previous configuration. Moving over to the Policies tab again, we Add Policy and select Authorization Policy from the drop-down.
We're going to add two rules:
|To access resource
|using verb/action
|the user must have role
Our example user has the first role, but not the second. Add the policy and Publish the API again. Our endpoint will now reflect the changed version.
You will probably need to issue a new bearer token, which you can achieve by repeating the previous shell command.
[msavy@mmbp tmp]$ curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiJmODAyZjFmMy1kN2JmLTQ0YjQtODA2N..." \
"method" : "GET",
"resource" : "/apiman-echo/rincewind/wizard",
"uri" : "/apiman-echo/rincewind/wizard",
"headers" : {
"Authorization" : "Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiJmODAyZjFmMy1kN2JmLTQ0YjQtODA2N...",
"Host" : "127.0.0.1:8080",
"User-Agent" : "curl/7.37.1",
"Accept" : "*/*",
"Connection" : "keep-alive",
"Cache-Control" : "no-cache",
"Pragma" : "no-cache",
"X-AZP": "apiman"
"bodyLength" : null,
"bodySha1" : null,
"counter" : 19
As our user
rincewind has the role
echomeister, his request went through successfully.
However, if we try to access a resource for which he doesn't hold the appropriate role, we see an error message:
[msavy@mmbp tmp]$ curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiJmODAyZjFmMy1kN2JmLTQ0YjQtODA2N..." \
"type": "Authorization",
"failureCode": 10009,
"responseCode": 0,
"message": "The user is not authorized to make this request (a required role is missing).",
"headers": {}
In Conclusion…
We protected an API with apiman using OAuth2; with examples of both simple authentication and role-based authorization. It should be easy to design your own role-based auth setups in combination with Keycloak.
iss field
jq to select the
access_token field in our JSON, so if you don't have
jq installed you can use your package manager to get it: OS X Brew
brew install jq; On Fedora
sudo yum install jq; On Debian
sudo apt-get install jq


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Lunch shaming be gone: Church pays off Barrington district's debt
BARRINGTON — Another church has come forward to pay off a school district's lunch debt.
The issue of what a district should do when lunch bills go unpaid by parents came to light when the Cherry Hill school district created a policy that provided a tuna salad for students whose accounts were in arrears. Critics called the practice "lunch shaming" and pulled the district into the national spotlight.
Cherry Hill was also criticized for turning down offers from individuals and groups that wanted to pay off the debt. Steven Ravitz, the owner of five South Jersey ShopRite stores, said he was ignored when he offered to pay Cherry Hill's $14,000+ debt, according to the Cherry Hill Courier-Post.
Offers to help in other districts were accepted.
Liquid Church took up a special offering to take care of the lunch debt of 1,500 families in Roselle, Sayreville, Somerville, Nutley and Parsippany.
About $9,000 was raised by the Lacey Township Chatter Facebook group via a GoFundMe page to erase that district's debt in December.
The Grace Bible Church in Barrington is the latest church to step forward after the congregation met a challenge from Pastor Shane Colwell on Christmas Eve and raised $2,000 to take care of Barrington's lunch debt. The extra amount will be put toward future debt.
Colwell told the Cherry Hill Courier-Post he understands the struggles families may have that might prevent them from paying their school lunch bill.
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Other name(s): equilase; caperase; optidase; catalase-peroxidase; CAT
Systematic name: hydrogen-peroxide:hydrogen-peroxide oxidoreductase
Comments: A hemoprotein. A manganese protein containing MnIII in the resting state, which also belongs here, is often called pseudocatalase. The enzymes from some organisms, such as Penicillium simplicissimum, can also act as a peroxidase (EC 22.214.171.124) for which several organic substances, especially ethanol, can act as a hydrogen donor. Enzymes that exhibit both catalase and peroxidase activity belong under EC 188.8.131.52, catalase-peroxidase.
Links to other databases: BRENDA, EAWAG-BBD, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9001-05-2
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Warehouse work has its challenges. It requires physical strength, flexibility, patience, and a high tolerance for repetitive tasks. At the same time, warehouse work has its perks.
Warehouse workers are always in demand, especially during busy seasons, and the volume of work allows you some flexibility in choosing where you work and when. Working in a warehouse also means working with a diverse team of people, some short-term and some long-term employees, with social advantages.
Working in a warehouse may not be fun in the traditional sense, but there are ways you can make it a more enjoyable experience.
Make Friends
You spend eight hours a day or more at work, so why not enjoy the opportunity to make friends? The diversity of co-workers in a warehouse environment means you can connect with a wide variety of people, and studies show that having friends at work makes your entire job experience less stressful and more satisfying.
There are many opportunities during a workday when you can connect with your co-workers:
- Shift arrival
- At break time
- While working
- End of the day
Don't forget to give a co-worker a shout-out when they help you or do a great job. Everyone likes to feel appreciated, and it builds great rapport and morale within the workplace.
Learn Together
Warehouse work requires some level of teamwork. Being part of a team adds a unique angle to otherwise mundane tasks. It also allows you to learn new skills in a group setting and work together to solve problems, demonstrating skills valuable for advancement and higher earning potential.
Stay Cool and Destress
Quotas are a significant part of warehouse work, and meeting those target orders per hour can be highly stressful. Add in the unexpected or the additional stress of increased demands around the holidays, and you may quickly find yourself unhappy in your job.
It isn't your job stressing you, though, and there are ways you can take even a few moments to reduce your stress and improve the quality of your work life:
- Take a break to refocus, even if it's only a few minutes
- Practice the pause when you feel stressed or frustrated
- Plan to prioritize, focusing on one task at a time, one step at a time
It's also essential to take care of your health and rest when you are not on the job. Lack of sleep can lead to poor performance at work and a weaker immune system, which could cost you time at work if you get sick.
Making your warehouse work more enjoyable is all about your approach, so always give it your best, and you'll get the most out of it.


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This week's "Parish Table Talk": An important update from Youth and Young Adult Ministry; The Revised Rite of Marriage; Spring Confirmations at the Cathedral; Christ in the City (video); Celebrating Mass in the absence of a priest; plus this Thursday's blog post.
Mission Matters: May 3, 2016
This week's "Parish Table Talk": An important update from Youth and Young Adult Ministry; The Revised Rite of Marriage; Spring Confirmations at the Cathedral; Christ in the City (video); Celebrating Mass in the absence of a priest; plus this Thursday's blog post.
Watch for this Thursday's Post: Parish Survey Series #3
The Ants Go Marching: Children's Faith Formation by Abby Kibler, Coordinator of Discipleship Formation.
- Event Cancellation: The 5th Lecture for Legal Professionals, which was to take place this Thursday May 5, 2016 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at St. Mary's Seminary, has been cancelled.
- Regional workshop on the Order of Celebrating Matrimony: Last February, Archbishop Kurtz from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a Decree of Publication for the Order of Celebrating Matrimony. Its use in Liturgy will be mandatory as of December 30, 2016. Therefore, the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC) along with the Archdiocese of Baltimore are offering this formation opportunity for priests, deacons, parish musicians, and diocesan leaders who actively prepare couples for marriage and for the celebration of Matrimony. The workshop will take place at the Church of Resurrection in Ellicott City, MD on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 . Online registration and more information available on the Federation's website. For more information, please contact the Office of Marriage and Family Life at (410) 547-5406 or e-mail email@example.com.
- Pentecost Sunday Confirmations: On May 15, Archbishop Lori will celebrate Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen at 3:00 p.m. and confer the Sacrament of Confirmation to adult baptized Catholics. If your parish has candidates who would like to be confirmed, please be sure to register them online by Friday, May 6, 2015 and send copies of their baptismal certificates to the Office of Worship and Sacramental Formation either by email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or fax: (410) 625-8481. When you contact candidates, please ask them to be at the Cathedral by 2:00 p.m. Candidates, their sponsors, and families will have reserved pews. For more information – or if candidates have more than twelve guests – please contact Alexandra Danter at (410) 547-5403 or email email@example.com.
- On a mission to serve the homeless: Christ in the City is a Catholic non-profit dedicated to "forming missionaries, volunteers and communities in knowing, loving, and serving the poor." Consider visiting their website and take a look at their blog featuring articles like "Tips for Encountering the Homeless at a Stop Light." This organization partners with local parishes and donors to make its ministries and programs possible. Can you see this model of serving the poor being successful in your parish or region?
- Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest: What should you do when a priest is not available to celebrate Mass in your parish? This workshop presented by Ximena DeBroeck, Assistant Professor of Scripture at St. Mary's Seminary, will guide you through Eucharist, the rite itself, and its difference from Mass. It will take place May 14 at St. Mark's, Catonsville, from 8 A.M. to 11 A.M.


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HELVERING V. RANKIN, 295 U. S. 123 (1935)Subscribe to Cases that cite 295 U. S. 123
U.S. Supreme Court
Helvering v. Rankin, 295 U.S. 123 (1935)
Helvering v. Rankin
No. 582
Argued March 14, 15, 1935
Decided April 29, 1935
1. For the purpose of ascertaining the taxable gain from a sale of corporate shares made through a broker while he has them in a chanrobles.com-red
marginal account with other lots of the same kind bought at different times and at different prices for the same customer, identification of the lot sold is not dependent on allocation of particular stock certificates, which may be impossible, but is satisfied if the customer, through the broker, designated the shares to be sold as those purchased on a particular date and at a particular price. P. 295 U. S. 128.
2. It is only when such a designation has not been made at the time of sale, or is not shown, that there is room in such cases for applying the "first-in, first-out" regulation of the Treasury (Reg. No. 74, Art. 58), which provides:
"When shares of stock in a corporation are sold from lots purchased at different dates and at different prices, and the identity of the lots cannot be determined, the stock sold shall be charged against the earliest purchases of such stock."
3. So construed, the regulation affects, at most, the burden of proof, leaving the trader free to establish the identity of the shares by any relevant evidence; it does not create a conclusive presumption arbitrarily depriving him of any of the attributes of ownership, such as the right to decide which shares he will sell. P. 295 U. S. 129.
4. Identification of shares sold with shares purchased, precluding application of the "first-in, first-out " rule, is not made out by proof of a mere intention of the trader not communicated to the broker. P. 295 U. S. 130.
5. The Circuit Court of Appeals is without power, on review of proceedings of the Board of Tax Appeals, to make any findings of fact; the function of the court is to decide whether the correct rule of law was applied to the facts found, and whether there was substantial evidence before the Board to support the findings made. P. 295 U. S. 131.
6. If the Board has failed to make an essential finding and the record on review is insufficient to provide the basis for a final determination, the proper procedure is to remand the case for further proceedings before the Board. And the same procedure is appropriate even when the findings omitted by the Board might be supplied from examination of the record. P. 295 U. S. 131.
7. The Circuit Court of Appeals is not justified in reversing a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals, though it be based on an erroneous rule of law, if the findings of fact, governed by the correct rule of law, are sufficient to sustain the decision and have substantial support in the evidence. P. 295 U. S. 132. chanrobles.com-red
8. Cause remanded to the Circuit Court of Appeals for further consideration on the question whether a finding of the Board of Tax Appeals was without substantial support in the evidence. P. 295 U. S. 133.
73 F.2d 9 reversed.
Certiorari, 294 U.S. 700, to review a judgment reversing a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals, 261 B.T.A. 1204, which upheld a determination of deficiency in income tax.
MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Revenue Act of 1928 (c. 852, §§ 22, 111, 112, 113) provides, as had earlier Revenue Acts, that, in computing income from sales of property purchased after February 28, 1913, any excess of the amount realized over cost shall be gain, and that any excess of the cost over the amount realized shall be loss. When gain or loss is to be determined on the sale of stock owned outright as an investment, the identification of the shares sold with those purchased ordinarily presents no difficulty. But when the taxpayer has engaged in marginal transactions on a stock exchange, the identification of sales and purchases is frequently impossible. It was, perhaps, primarily to deal with such cases that the Treasury adopted, in 1819, [Footnote 1] chanrobles.com-red
the so-called "first-in, first-out" rule. That rule appears in Article 58 of Regulations No. 74, under Revenue Act of 1928, as follows:
"When shares of stock in a corporation are sold from lots purchased at different dates and at different prices and the identity of the lots cannot be determined, the stock sold shall be charged against the earliest purchases of such stock. The excess of the amount realized on the sale over cost or other basis of the stock will constitute gain."
Applying this rule, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue assessed against Richard B. Turner for the year 1928 a deficiency tax of $11,173.05 on account of gains from his operations on the stock exchange in United Gas Improvement Company stock. Upon a redetermination by the Board of Tax Appeals, the Commissioner's action was sustained. 26 B.T.A. 1204. The Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Board's decision and directed it to enter a new order in conformity with the court's opinion. 73 F.2d 9. Turner having died during the litigation, his executor, Rankin, was substituted. Writs of certiorari were granted in this case, and in Snyder v. Commissioner, post, p. 295 U. S. 134, in order to determine questions concerning the effect, validity, and applicability of the regulation. The facts found by the Board were these:
In 1926, Turner received in distribution of his father's estate $20,000 in bonds. Wishing to change his inheritance into stock, he opened a marginal account with a stock broker, sold the bonds, and, with the proceeds as margin, purchased, from time to time during that year, an aggregate of 1,200 shares of United Gas Improvement Company stock at a cost of $117,202.50. On this stock, the broker received for him, later in 1926, 300 shares as a dividend. There were no further operations in 1926 or in 1927. His marginal account became active in 1928. chanrobles.com-red
At the beginning of the year, he was long 1,500 shares of this stock; in May, he sold 300 shares for $44,619 net; in June, he bought 1,000 shares for $143,225; in October, he sold 500 shares for $73,865, and in November 500 shares for $74,115. Thus, at the close of the year, he was long 1,200 shares.
In none of these transactions did the broker deliver to Turner, or Turner to the broker, any stock certificate. No specific certificate of stock was ever bought or sold by the broker for Turner, and none was earmarked or allocated for him in any manner. The purchases and sales affecting his account were made through the medium of street certificates handled by the broker, and the transactions were evidenced solely by debits and credits in his account on the broker's books. Turner first learned these facts after the deficiency assessment. He had always Intended to retain ownership on margin of 1,200 shares of the stock, since he had faith in the company and desired to hold them in lieu of the bonds which he had received from the estate of his father. To his business associates, who acted for him in giving orders to the broker, he had made it plain that the 1,200 shares were in the nature of a permanent commitment on his part. An employee of the broker understood that the decedent desired to retain 1,200 shares of the stock to take the place of the bonds which he had received from his father.
On the above facts, the Board concluded, as had the Commissioner, that it was impossible to determine the identity of the lots purchased and sold, and that, consequently, the "first-in, first-out" regulation should be applied. In reversing that order, the Court of Appeals said:
"We think the petitioner's [Turner's] communication to his broker of his intention to hold the 1200 shares first purchased as an investment was, in effect, an order to his broker not to sell those shares, and when, two years later,
he ordered the broker to make two sales in lots of 500 shares each, they were, conformably with the original instructions, the 1,000 shares last purchased. The petitioner's instructions excluding from sale the shares first purchased were in effect an identification of the shares later sold as those last purchased."
"While the petitioner, in identifying his shares, might have been more specific in his instructions to his broker, those he gave stand uncontradicted; indeed, they have not been questioned. We think they were enough to take the case out of the rule, and that, in consequence, the deficiency tax in issue is invalid to the extent that it is based on gains made in sales of U.G.I. shares reckoned on the purchase price of the original 1,200 shares."
First. The Commissioner contends that Turner's communication to his broker of his intention to keep 1,200 shares of United Gas Improvement Company stock was ineffective to identify the shares to be sold, because, from the very nature of these marginal operations, the shares were incapable of identification by the broker or anyone else. The basis for this contention are the facts that, in such transactions, no certificate is issued in the name of the customer, or earmarked for or otherwise allocated to him; that all certificates are in the name of the broker or street names, and that all certificates for stock of the same kind are commingled and held by the broker for the common benefit of all dealing in that particular stock. The fallacy of this argument lies in the assumption that shares of stock can be identified only through stock certificates. It is true that certificates provide the ordinary means of identification. But it is not true that they are the only possible means. Compare Richardson v. Shaw, 209 U. S. 365; Gorman v. Littlefield, 229 U. S. 19; Duel v. Hollins, 241 U. S. 523. Particularly is this so when, as here, the thing to be established is the allocation of lots sold to lots purchased at different dates and different chanrobles.com-red
prices. [Footnote 2] The required identification is satisfied if the margin trader has, through his broker, designated the securities to be sold as those purchased on a particular date and at a particular price. It is only when such a designation was not made at the time of the sale, or is not shown, that the "first-in, first-out" rule is to be applied. [Footnote 3]
Second. The validity of the regulation, thus construed, cannot seriously be questioned. The contention advanced by the taxpayers, both here and in the companion case of Snyder v. Helvering, that the regulation, as applied to marginal transactions, is invalid under the Fifth Amendment because it creates a conclusive presumption, must rest wholly on the assumption that the shares traded on margin are incapable of identification. Since that assumption is erroneous, it is clear that no conclusive presumption is established. It, is at most, the burden of proof that is affected. For the margin trader, while being required to establish the identity of the shares in order to avoid the "first-in, first-out" rule, is left free to introduce any relevant evidence. Nor is he arbitrarily deprived of any of the important attributes of ownership, such as the "right to decide which stock he is going to chanrobles.com-red
sell." Indeed, it is conceded at least by the taxpayer in this case, that the regulation, as we now interpret it, "provides a useful and reasonable rule for ascertaining what stock was sold in cases where there is no proof, or lack of satisfactory proof, of the fact."
Third. If the facts found by the Board of Tax Appeals had been what the Court of Appeals assumed them to be, there would have been such an identification of shares sold with shares purchased as to preclude the Commissioner from applying the "first-in, first-out" rule. The Court of Appeals assumed that
"[w]hat Turner did in this case, acting and speaking through his attorney, was to communicate to his broker his intention to hold for investment the shares of U.G.I. he originally purchased."
The facts found by the Board of Tax Appeals do not bear out this assumption of the court. The Board's findings were that, "The decedent [Turner] always intended to retain the ownership on margin of 1,200 shares of the United Gas Improvement Company stock;" and that,
"an employee of the broker understood . . . that the decedent desired to retain 1,200 shares to take the place of the bonds which he had received from his father."
The difference between the Board's findings and the court's statement of the facts is obviously vital. The court held that Turner's communication of his intention "was in effect an order to his broker not to sell those shares;" that,
"when, two years later, he ordered the broker to make two sales in lots of 500 shares each, they were, conformably with the original instructions, the 1,000 shares last purchased."
But if the employee was told, as the Board found, merely that Turner "desired to retain 1,200 shares [of the U.G.I. stock] to take the place of the bonds which he had received from his father,"
he would naturally believe that, so long as any 1,200 shares of the stock were retained, it was immaterial to which of the lots the sales in 1928 were attributed, and hence there was no identification. chanrobles.com-red
Thus, it was only by departing from the facts as found by the Board of Tax Appeals that the court found justification for reversing the Board's decision.
Fourth. The Court of Appeals is without power, on review of proceedings of the Board of Tax Appeals, to make any findings of fact.
"The Board of Tax Appeals is not a court. It is an executive or administrative board, upon the decision of which the parties are given an opportunity to base a petition for review to the courts after the administrative inquiry of the Board has been had and decided."
Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner, 279 U. S. 716, 279 U. S. 725. The function of the court is to decide whether the correct rule of law was applied to the facts found, and whether there was substantial evidence before the Board to support the findings made. See Phillips v. Commissioner, 283 U. S. 589, 283 U. S. 599-600; Burnet v. Leininger, 285 U. S. 136, 285 U. S. 138; Old Mission Portland Cement Co. v. Helvering, 293 U. S. 289, 293 U. S. 294. [Footnote 4] Unless the finding of the Board involves a mixed question of law and fact, the court may not properly substitute its own judgment for that of the Board. [Footnote 5] If the Board has failed to make an essential finding and the record on review is insufficient to provide the basis for a final determination, the proper procedure is to remand the case for further proceedings before the Board. Compare Helvering v. Taylor, 293 U. S. 507; Murphy Oil Co. v. Burnet, 287 U. S. 299, 287 U. S. 308. [Footnote 6] And chanrobles.com-red
the same procedure is appropriate even when the findings omitted by the Board might be supplied from examination of the record. [Footnote 7]
Fifth. The Court of Appeals did not comment on the difference between the Board's findings and its own statement of the facts. Apparently it assumed that there was no difference, and reversed the Board's order, believing that it rested upon an erroneous ruling of law. For the court said that the Board made its determination
"on the theory that the U.G.I. stock, which from time to time he [Turner] purchased on margin and later sold, could be identified only by certificates; that, as no certificates for shares were ever in his name, the shares sold could not be identified as shares purchased in any particular lot or at any particular time or price and, accordingly, charged the shares sold against those earliest purchased within the 'first in, first out' rule."
There is nothing in the opinion of the Board to indicate that its decision was based upon the "theory" stated by the court. There is nothing in the record to indicate that any such contention had been made by the government before the Board, and Turner's petition for review by the Court of Appeals did not claim that the Board had acted upon that "theory." [Footnote 8] But even if the Board's decision chanrobles.com-red
had been based on an erroneous rule of law that would not have justified its reversal if the findings of fact, governed by the correct rule of law, were sufficient to sustain the decision and had substantial support in the evidence. [Footnote 9]
Sixth. The Court of Appeals did not explicitly hold that the Board's finding as to Turner's communication to his broker was without substantial support in the evidence. The court, in its opinion, does state that,
"The evidence shows conclusively that Turner was sentimental about keeping the original 1,200 shares as an inheritance from his father; that his 'intention' was to retain as an investment the shares originally purchased and sell in speculation the shares more recently acquired."
It does not state that the evidence was equally conclusive as to the communication to the broker of this exact intention. There was, it is true, testimony to the effect that, "from the very beginning, West & Company knew Mr. Turner's intentions, and knew he was keeping the first purchase of 1,200 shares," and the failure of the Board so to find was assigned as error by the taxpayer in his petition for review. But there was also testimony showing that Turner, during 1928, traded heavily in 20 other issues of stock. The Court of Appeals did not consider whether, in view of this and other evidence, the Board might reasonably have concluded that the testimony as to the broker's knowledge of Turner's intention was not entirely accurate, and that the broker's only clear understanding chanrobles.com-red
of Turner's intention was that, throughout his extensive trading, 1,200 shares of United Gas Improvement Company stock were to remain in his account. Since this question was not considered in the court below nor argued here, the case must be remanded to the Court of Appeals for further consideration.
MR. JUSTICE STONE thinks that the judgment of the Court of Appeals should be reversed, and the order of the Board of Tax Appeals affirmed, on the grounds that the petitioner failed to show that the particular shares sold were capable of identification with respect to the date of their purchase, and that they could not be identified merely by designating them to the broker as the shares to be sold.
Art. 4, 60, Regulations No. 33 (Revised), Revenue Acts of 1916 and 1917; Art. 39, Regulations Nos. 45, 62, 65, and 69, Acts of 1918, 1921, 1924, and 1926, respectively; Art. 58, Regulations Nos. 74 and 77, Acts of 1928 and 1932, respectively; Act. 22(a)-8, Regulations No. 86, Act of 1934.
The original regulation, Art. 4, 60, Regulation No. 33 (Revised), read,
"When stock is sold from lots purchased at different times and at different prices, and the identity of the lots cannot be determined as to the dates of purchase, the stock sold shall be charged against the earliest purchases of such stock."
It has been suggested that,
"Under the language quoted from Regulations 33 ['as to the dates of purchase,' omitted in subsequent regulations], it might be argued that the identification intended could have been accomplished merely by recording 'the dates of purchase,' rather than by requiring physical identification of the certificates."
Wilkins, Identity of Marginal Transactions, Int.Rev. News v. 4, no. 7, p. 5 (1931).
Compare Howbert v. Penrose, 38 F.2d 577; Skinner v. Eaton, 45 F.2d 568; Snyder v. Commissioner, 54 F.2d 57; Commissioner v. Merchants' & Mfrs.' Fire Ins. Co., 72 F.2d 408.
Compare Tracy v. Commissioner, 53 F.2d 575, 578, 579; Slayton v. Commissioner, 76 F.2d 497; Heywood Boot & Shoe Co. v. Commissioner, 76 F.2d 586.
Compare Bishoff v. Commissioner, 27 F.2d 91, 92; Washburn v. Commissioner, 51 F.2d 949, 951; Tricou v. Helvering, 68 F.2d 280, 285.
Compare Royal Packing Co. v. Commissioner, 22 F.2d 536, 538; Commissioner v. Langwell Real Estate Corp., 47 F.2d 841, 842; Independent I. & C. Storage Co. v. Commissioner, 50 F.2d 31, 33; Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. v. Commissioner, 52 F.2d 372, 379; Houston v. Commissioner, 53 F.2d 445; Underwood v. Commissioner, 56 F.2d 67, 73; Eau Clair Book & Stationary Co. v. Commissioner, 65 F.2d 125, 126.
Compare Kendrick Coal & Dock Co. v. Commissioner, 29 F.2d 559, 564; Francisco Sugar Co. v. Commissioner, 47 F.2d 555, 558; Belridge Oil Co. v. Helvering, 69 F.2d 432.
The Solicitor General stated in his petition to this Court for certiorari, that the question presented was
"whether shares of stock held on margin are capable of identification so that a taxpayer selling part of his holdings may select, as his basis for determining gain or loss, the cost of any particular lot,"
and counsel for the government may have contended in the Court of Appeals, as he did here, that such identification is impossible. It is also true that the Board of Tax Appeals in other cases has approved the rule for which the government is now contending. See Stryker v. Commissioner, 21 B.T.A. 561; Leng v. Commissioner, 22 B.T.A. 149; Seelve v. Commissioner, 29 B.T.A. 695; compare Kelchner v. Commissioner, 31 B.T.A. 262.
Compare Lewis-Hall Iron Works v. Blair, 57 App.D.C. 364, 23 F.2d 972, 974, 975; Hurwitz v. Commissioner, 45 F.2d 780, 781; Dickey v. Burnet, 56 F.2d 917, 918.


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Electric mandolin prototype
Posted By carter on May 9, 2013
Here's a picture of an electric mandolin prototype I recently knocked together. The body is pine, with a curly maple veneer cap. The neck came off a cadaver instrument (this is, after all, a prototype). And the pickup is one that I wound, using a block magnet as its core. I'm pleased with the sound of it — it's sweet and usable in a variety of styles.
I based the shape on an old Kay Kraft mandolin. It's a shape I like, as it seems to come from the same aesthetic palette as the f-style, but is less ornate. It's a classic, American mandolin shape that is less often seen and isn't trying to be something else (like a scaled-down guitar).
I'd love to make more!


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Jackson Trauben, Staff Reporter|May 25, 2020
Earlier this year, students spent time and effort compiling research and innovating for their Science Research Projects. On February 6, 2020, students presented their projects to everybody attending the gala on at The University Club in Manhattan.
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The final report of the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force, Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality, recommends developing a comprehensive assessment system to improve child outcomes. A key recommendation involves aligning high-quality and comprehensive standards, curriculum, instruction, and assessments as a continuum from Prekindergarten through Third Grade.
The Task Force's recommendations are flexible enough to be adapted in multiple states, employ state-of-the-art evaluation methods, and focus on how assessment data can be used to improve Prekindergarten programs, and enhance positive outcomes for children.
The Foundation for Child Development's previous Senior Program Officer, Fasaha Traylor commented as Prekindergarten expands, policymakers and the public will shift their focus to making sure that children are well prepared to read, think, compute, and learn self-control and how to work with their peers and adults by the end of Third Grade. The National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force sets our nation on that path.


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013: Position Yourself As An Expert By Becoming A Specialist With Joseph Kashurba
In this episode, we chat with Joseph Kashurba from Kashurba Design on how he started his design business early on, and then the strategies he used to grow it to the specialist business that it is now.
Here is a little more information about who Joe is and where to find him!
Joe Kashurba is a successful entrepreneur who grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with clients around the world. Joe and his team have worked with clients ranging from tech startups to some of the largest manufacturing and construction companies.
Joe has over a decade of experience in the web design and digital marketing space. He has personally sold and built hundreds of websites, and he has managed 6-figure advertising budgets for high-end digital marketing clients.
Joe graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Information Science and a minor in Computer Science.
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Toward the end of World War II, leaders from the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union met to discuss the fate of Europe after the war. It was agreed that the USSR would oversee a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and the western powers would oversee a sphere of influence in Western Europe. This led to the rise of the world's two major superpowers, the United States and the USSR. The superpowers' conflicting ideologies -- capitalism and communism -- gave rise to the Cold War, in which both nations attempted to gain influence in the world without openly engaging in war with one another. The Cold War continued until the dismantling of the USSR in 1991.
Soviet Sphere of Influence
The USSR liberated Poland and Czechoslovakia from German occupation. They Soviets also occupied Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary -- all allies of Nazi Germany -- before occupying eastern Germany. As a result, these areas fell under Soviet influence. In the years immediately following World War II, the USSR established Soviet-style communist governments in these countries, which became known as the Soviet Bloc. The USSR maintained a strong military presence in these countries throughout the Cold War. The Soviets also developed strong economic ties by providing aid to help these countries rebuild after the war.
Warsaw Pact
The United States and its Western European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949 because of growing concerns about Soviet expansion. The Soviet Union, in turn, formalized its military relations with the Soviet Bloc through the Warsaw Pact. The stated reasons for forming the Warsaw Pact had to do with mutual defense, but the USSR also used its Warsaw Pact allies to indirectly promote communism in third-world countries. The main reason the Soviets used allied countries to provide aid to these developing countries was to avoid direct confrontation with the United States, which generally supported democratic or capitalist governments in the same countries.
Military Aid
The Soviet Union was founded on the Marxist revolutionary ideal that the working classes of the world would rise up to overthrow those who controlled the wealth in their countries. In keeping with this ideal, the USSR gave military aid to several countries' communist uprisings. This was usually in the form of weapons or military advisors rather than direct military intervention. The USSR aided the successful communist revolutions in China, Cuba and Vietnam. It also gave military aid -- generally through its allied countries -- to communist uprisings in Yugoslavia, Albania, Korea and several Latin American and African countries.
Economic Aid
In addition to military aid, the USSR -- again, usually through its satellite countries -- gave economic aid to countries that were heading toward communism. In some cases, this came in the form of favorable trade arrangements. In other cases, aid came in the form of providing economic advisors to help developing countries transition to socialist economic systems. Many of the people in third-world countries felt exploited by European and American colonialism. They viewed the Soviet offer of economic and military aid as an opportunity to liberate their countries from foreign influence and to provide a more equitable life for their poor and working-class people.
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California's pear season is winding down, and many growers are reporting that it's been a good year. Main growing regions are in the northern parts of the state. There's a field day coming up this month for pear growers. It's by the University of California Cooperative Extension and the California Pear Advisory Board. The field day is planned for Tuesday, October 22 from 10 am to noon at Shadowbrook Farms in Mendocino County. This year's California pear crop is estimated to be about 4.5 million 36-pound-tight-fill cartons, which is up from last year.
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Fatimah Asghar, a nationally touring poet, screenwriter, educator and performer, we are honored to share your work with our HocTok community. Thank you!
Given the many roles and titles you have earned, we have to ask if you feel like your life is split in clear cut compartments at specific time intervals or do you see yourself as an artistic soul who translates reality to connect with various audiences everywhere?
I'm an artist first, who worked in many different mediums. I like to hold to that. I don't really love the way that we cling to genre so hard to define ourselves. In my best moments, I'm an artist who is porous enough to allow for a lot of different kind of expressions.
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these are my people & I find
them on the street & shadow
through any wild all wild
my people my people
a dance of strangers in my blood
the old woman's sari dissolving to wind
bindi a new moon on her forehead
I claim her my kin & sew
the star of her to my breast
the toddler dangling from stroller
hair a fountain of dandelion seed
at the bakery I claim them too
the sikh uncle at the airport
who apologizes for the pat
down the muslim man who abandons
his car at the traffic light drops
to his knees at the call of the azan
& the muslim man who sips
good whiskey at the start of maghrib
the lone khala at the park
pairing her kurta with crocs
my people my people I can't be lost
when I see you my compass
is brown & gold & blood
my compass a muslim teenager
snapback & high-tops gracing
the subway platform
mashallah I claim them all
my country is made
in my people's image
if they come for you they
come for me too in the dead
of winter a flock of
aunties step out on the sand
their dupattas turn to ocean
a colony of uncles grind their palms
& a thousand jasmines bell the air
my people I follow you like constellations
we hear the glass smashing the street
& the nights opening their dark
our names this country's wood
for the fire my people my people
the long years we've survived the long
years yet to come I see you map
my sky the light your lantern long
ahead & I follow I follow
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Meet our new digital marketing executive, Rob Goodison! Bolstering our marketing team, we've no doubt that Rob's skills and knowledge in digital media will prove a huge asset to the business.
Previously forming part of the marketing team at Salford University and with a strong background as a copywriter and content manager, Rob honed his digital marketing skills at the University where he was responsible for growing its CPD (continuous professional development) course take up and working with partners including Bauer Media and the National Education Trust.
Livelink's managing director, PK Vaish is delighted to welcome Rob to the team: "We are now continuously growing our marketing automation clientbase and Rob will play an active role in introducing our customer-focused, lead generation and nurturing services to a whole new market. There is a real hunger to develop intelligent personalised marketing and with people like Rob on board, I am confident that we can drive through some outstanding results-driven campaigns and continue to grow this aspect of the business."
Rob comments: "I'm looking forward to bringing my digital marketing experience to the fore and continuing to develop these skills in a specialist environment. I appreciate Livelink's vision when it comes to data-driven, personal marketing and I'm keen to be part of a team that works on joined up marketing strategies that make a real difference."
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Northern Ireland schoolgirl Shannon Conn, 16, top dog at Skipton with 6,800gns Rosie
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Shannon Conn, a pupil at Limavady High School in Co Londonderry, left her two-year-old red and white bitch, Rosie, in the capable hands of her father, Loughlin, a Limavady sheep and cattle farmer, who put in a sparkling display with the talented youngster on the trials field at the North Yorkshire venue.
Shannon has had the well-bred Rosie for 12 months and while she has trained the dog herself, dad Loughlin, who breeds Aberdeen-Angus cattle and Suffolk-cross sheep, also knows Rosie well, having been placed with her at several nursery trials.
However, Shannon is no stranger to the trials field, having competed in the televised One Man and His Dog as a 13-year-old in 2015, winning through to the junior handler final, and in the same year becoming the Irish Junior champion and qualifying for the International Junior Final in Scotland.
She said she was "over the moon" with her top price coup and planned to invest part of her windfall in buying some well-bred sheep dog pups, working on them and bringing them back to sell at Skipton, which is now widely regarded as the UK's leading sheep dog sales venue.
In fact, Shannon has set her heart on further cementing her already growing presence and impact in the working sheep dog world. After her GCSEs, she will go on to take A Levels – "then hopefully just dogs," she commented.
The fully Irish-bred Rosie is by Malta Glen, bred by Carlaine Thom, of Malta Border Collies, based in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and now in the hands of South Wales handler, Lyn Howells, who farms near Port Talbot – he bought Glen at Skipton two years ago for 4,000gns. Rosie's dam is Bessie, from Southern Ireland's C Chamberlayne. Skipton's top price dog fell to a Scottish buyer who requested no publicity.
Another highlight was a new centre record price of 6,700gns (£7,035) for a dog under a year old, which fell to Red Rose handler Tony Birkett, of Hall Croft Barn, Carnforth, with his 11-month-old black and white bitch, Ruby.
She, too, arrived with first-rate breeding credentials, being by Littledale-based Ricky Hutchinson's celebrated International Reserve Supreme Champion Sweep, who has bred multiple trial winners across the globe, out of Mr Birkett's own red and white bitch, Jess. Ruby, the second top price dog, returned to Lancashire with another buyer who requested anonymity.
Earlier in the day, Mr Birkett, who has built up a solid reputation as a dog breaker and trainer – he regularly figures among the leading prices at Skipton – was again bang on the mark when taking third top call of 6,000gns (£6,300) with Jaff, a black and white dog with exactly the same parents as Ruby, though a year older and from an earlier littler.
The two-year-old, already placed 12 times, including three firsts in local nurseries, found a new home north of the border when claimed by Craig Davidson, who farms Scottish Blackface sheep in Dunoon. Argyll. He will use Jaff as both a work and trials dog.
Welshman Dewi Jenkins, who took 8,100gns top price honours at Skipton's previous working dog sale in February, returned to claim 5,100gns with another well-bred 14-month-old black and tan bitch, Nel, by his own Moss, who finished fifth in the 2017 Welsh National, out of Fern, from fellow Welsh breeder Aeron Edwards, of Aberystwyth.
Just a week earlier, Mr Jenkins, who farms Welsh Mountain ewes and Welsh Black cattle at Tynygraig Farm, Tal-y-bont, Aberystwyth, set a new centre record price of 9,200gns at Bala with a half brother to his Skipton dog, which also sold well when finding a new home with John Atkinson, who runs White Rose Sheep Dogs at Escrick, between Selby and York.
It was the highest price ever paid for a sheep dog by Mr Atkinson, who has been training dogs for over 40 years and has sold them all over the world. He works as a shepherd on the Escrick Park Estate, home to the largest Hebridean sheep flock in the country. Nel will be put to work on the 900-strong flock and also used as a trials dog by Mr Atkinson, who is himself a well-respected triallist.
Back with the Irish, J D McAllister, of Cargan in Co Antrim, netted 4,600gns with his August, 2016, tri-coloured bitch, Ruby, a solid work dog with trials potential. She found a new home in Nidderdale with Middlesmoor sheep farmer David Verity.
Setting the early pace at 4,500gns was another young dog, the 14-month-old black and white Mac, trialled on behalf of his Northern Ireland owner Harry Molloy, of Gleneely, Co Donegal, who was unable to attend, by fellow Irishman Patsy Lynch. By the top trials dog Seth, from County Donegal's James McGee, out of Mr Lynch's own Bute, Mac joined a buyer from Lancashire.
A further 14-month-old black and white bitch, Meg, from Roger Jewitt, of Naburn, York, who was also unable to be present – well-known handler John Bell, of Howden, Selby, stepped in - did well at 4,200gns. By noted Welsh triallist Aled Owen's Supreme International champion, Llangwm Cap, out of J Richardson's Calderdale Bess, Meg, already a nursery trials runner-up, joined the Ribble Valley's Gordon Haynes in Mitton.
Another regular Skipton vendor from Ireland, former jump jockey Michael McAlister, of Glenariffe in Co Antrim, rode high with the brace of dogs that together netted 7,600gns
First up was his August, 2015, tri-coloured bitch, Fly, a solid farm dog with nursery placings and an intermediate trials success under her belt. By J Hamilton's Jim, out of SMA Price's Annie, Fly sold for 3,600gns to Scotland's Ben Edmondson, of Eskdale Muir in Dumfries and Galloway.
Mr McAlister was on another winner late in the day when doing better at 4,000gns with a younger 14-month-old black and white dog, Sango Jimmy, by W Cook's Jimmy, out of Scottish breeder Jock Sutherland's Udale Deni. This one caught the eye of regular Scottish buyer Joe McRobert, who runs Cheviot Sheepdogs at Fingland, near Biggar in Lanarkshire.
Another Welshman, Gary Davies, of Pen y Bryn, Colwyn Bay, made 3,700gns with his August, 2015, black and white bitch, Bronallt Lucy, by David Howell's Nip, out of M Edwards' Joyce Country Nan. She found a new home in South Yorkshire with Sheffield's Ian Marsden.
Mid-Wales handler Dan Rees, of Tregaron, Ceredigion, was another returning vendor who did well at 3,500gns with his January, 2016, black and white dog, Cal, fully home-bred by fellow Welshman Henry Hughes, by his Glen, out of Lass.
Mr Rees sold another dog with the same breeding for 3,000gns at Skipton's previous sale in February, with his latest entry topping that price and returning to Wales with regular buyer and celebrated triallist, Kevin Evans, of Modrydd, Brecon in Powys.
Mr Evans also went to 3,600gns to claim a January, 2016, black and white dog, Ben, from another Irishman, Brian Quigley, of Culmore, Co Londonderry. By James McGee's Glencregg Silver, out of the home-bred Cindy, Ben arrived with strong trialling credentials, following up a nursery win last winter with a fifth place in the North of Ireland final.
A third acquisition for Mr Evans at 2,950gns was Derwen Nell, a 16-month-old black and white bitch from regular vendor Emrys Jones, of Sarn-Faen Farm, Tal y Bont, Gwynedd. Nell's sire was Mr Evans' own Jim.
Scotland's Dean Aitken, who breeds Texel and Beltex-cross, and Scottish Blackface sheep in Lockerbie, achieved 3,000gns with Tweeddale Woody, a two-year-old black and white dog by P Turnbull's Glen, out of Mr Aitken's own Tami. This fell to another Welsh buyer, D Rees, from Brecon.
Top price in the unbroken pen was 1,400gns for a six-month-old black and white dog, Ben, from WH Huddlestone, of Carnforth. By Pen-y-Borough Jeff, from North Craven's Shaun Richards, out of Mr Huddlestone's own Tanhill Meg, the promising youngster returned to very near her place of origin when claimed by John Handley, of Westhouse.
David Meek, who runs Wyverne Border Collies in Maesteg, near Bridgend in Mid-Glamorgan, hit 1,200gns twice in the pup pen with two eight-month-old tri-coloured bitches from the same litter. Both were by Kevin Evans' Kemi Ross, now with Ross Watson, out of fellow Welsh breeder Alwyn Jones' Lyn, who is herself a well-bred daughter of James McCloskey's Sweep, the 2016 International Sheepdog Trials supreme champion.
First up for Mr Meek, who was selling dogs for the first time at Skipton, though he is a past buyer, was Jinty, followed by her litter sister, Lyn. Mr Meek, who has represented the Welsh National trialling team several times over the years, also works as a sales agent for an animal minerals firm, though he is soon to retire, with plans to return to trialling full swing.
As well as the higher priced dogs, there were, as usual, plenty of other young up-and-coming and older proven dogs for both work or trial to suit all tastes and pockets. Once again, many dogs sold between 2,000 and 3,000gns as follows:
2,900gns – Glen, October, 2016, black and white dog from Shaun Richards, of Pen-y-Borough Sheep Dogs, Eldroth, who also made 2,200gns with Tom, a September, 2014, black and white dog.
2,900gns – Coba, September, 2014, black and white dog from Michael Kelly, of Draperstown, Co Londonderry.
2,800gns – Malta Tess, February, 2017, black and white bitch from Ross Games, of Talgarth, Powys.
2.800gns – Tanhill Nidge, November, 2015, black and white dog from Alec Baines, of Kirkby Stephen.
2,600gns – Shabden Ricky, August, 2015, black and white dog from Mark Banham, of Chipstead, Surrey,
2,600gns – Floss, ten-month-old black and white bitch from John Bell, of Frosterley, Bishop Auckland.
2,400gns – Jess, June, 2016, black and white bitch from Non Pyrs, of Betws-y-Coed, Conwy.
2.200gns – Wainstalls Meg, February, 2017, black and white bitch from John Bell, of Howden, Selby.
2,200gns – Sam, January, 2014, black and white dog from Leighton Bancroft, of Barnoldswick.
2,100gns – Kemi Moss, November, 2015, tri-coloured dog from Ben Griffiths, of Knighton, Powys.
2,000gns – Clyde, 13-month-old tri-coloured dog from Dick Roper, of Gloucester.
Craven Cattle Marts' general manager Jeremy Eaton noted that trade was "solid, if unexceptional, with a few highlights, though a few useful older dogs ready to go straight to work looked buyable".
A total of 94 dogs were forward, among them 57 field-run dogs.
Top prices and averages: 22 registered dogs from 500gns to 6,000gns (av £2,678), 21 registered bitches from 1,000gns to 6,800gns (av £3,040), 1 broken registered bitch 700gns, 43 registered broken dogs and bitches averaged £2,029, 12 registered unbroken dogs from 150gns to 1,400gns (£622), 15 registered unbroken bitches from 280gns to 1,200gns (av £579), 1 unregistered unbroken bitch 180gns.
The spring sale was sponsored by Farmers Guardian. Future seasonal working sheep dog sales at Skipton are on Fridays, July 6th and October 12th.


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MAH-N DOWN Man City ace Riyad Mahrez withdraws from Algeria squad for personal reasons
MANCHESTER CITY star Riyad Mahrez has withdrawn from the Algeria squad for personal reasons.
Posted Sunday, November 17, 2019 by Thesun.co.uk
Mahrez, 28, the national team captain, has been excused from travelling to Botswana for an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Monday.
Riyad Mahrez has withdrawn from the Algeria squad for personal reasons Credit: EPA
Former Leicester star Mahrez provided an assist in Thursday's 5-0 thrashing of Zambia to kick start their qualifiers for the 2021 finals.
But he did not travel on Friday for their second group game in Group H.
National coach Djamel Belmadi said the winger was left out because of a "personal problem that requires us to let him go" with no further explanation.
Mahrez, who has three goals in 14 appearances for City this season, was one of Algeria's star players when they won the Cup in Egypt in July.
SunSport told you earlier this month how the footballer was "devastated" after finding out WBC heavyweight champion of the world Deontay Wilder had flirted with his wife.
Pals say the pair were "chatting intently" at a Manchester nightclub - but there is no suggestion that is the reason behind his withdrawal.
Friends of the footballer have told how one of his sisters pulled Rita away from the boxing champ.
Ex-model Rita, 25, mother of Mahrez's two children, hit it off with 34-year-old Wilder after they were introduced in the VIP-section of the celebrity-packed nightclub.
A source said: "They were chatting intently, laughing and joking. You could see there was chemistry there and a real connection. But because of where it was, a lot of people noticed how well they seemed to be getting along.
"It's a club full of footballers and Wags, which even some of Riyad's team-mates go to. Rita was actually on a night out with Riyad's sisters who she really gets on with.
"And they did not appear to be happy with what was going on. One even seemed to go and get Rita, to take her away from Deontay, who was of course trying to keep her with him.
"There was a bit of a tug of war over her affections, which of course a few people witnessed."
Mahrez and Rita got married in a secret ceremony in August 2015.
The pair met in 2012 when Mahrez chatted to her on London's Oxford Street before they swapped phone numbers.
Mahrez was said to be devastated when he found out Wilder had flirted with his wife
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Mexico is ready and willing to welcome Indian IT professionals with open arms if the U.S. goes ahead with its adjustments to the H-1B working visa program.
Melba Pria, Mexico's Ambassador to India, said that Guadalajara, also known as Mexico's Silicon Valley, is already home to more than a dozen Indian IT firms, according to an interview with The Indian Express.
"Mexico will happily welcome them," she said, referring to the reports that Indian IT firms are worried about the proposed new regulations for H-1B visas.
Mexico has made a similar offer to American companies, with the Government of Jalisco, the Mexican state where Guadalajara is located, publishing an open letter to U.S. technology companies, inviting them to set up operations in its territory.
But Pria's comments assume a greater significance because most of the major Indian IT firms are already running at least one delivery center in Mexico, and since their employees carry a U.S. visa they can travel to Mexico without having to obtain a Mexican visa.
Among the Indian IT firms in Mexico, TCS has the largest presence, but others, including Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Hexaware, Tech Mahindra, and NIIT, have smaller operational units.
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The home of Twitter user Federico Medina Ravell, who's allegedly behind the account @LucioQuincioC, was raided on Sunday, January 6, 2013, by Venezuelan intelligence officers. The micro-blogger, a cousin of a prominent opposition journalist, is suspected of spreading rumors about the health of Mr Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan president didn't appear in public since he flew to Havana, Cuba, for cancer surgery early on December, fueling speculations about whether he will be able to attend the swearing-in ceremony of his new term scheduled for 10 January 2013.
According to Noticias 24, Medina, who was not present at his home during the raid, is accused of "instigating terrorism through social networking sites." The account @LucioQuincioC remains active and has posted claims that Chávez will not return from Cuba. News of post-surgery complications have fueled rumors on social networks and among the media about the state of Mr Chavez's health.


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Minsk Holocaust survivors published a two-volume yizkor book in Hebrew: Minsk, Ir va-'em: Korot, Ma'asim, Ishim, Havai (Minsk; Jewish mother city: a memorial anthology), Editors: David Kohen and Shelomo Even-Shoshan, Jerusalem, 1975-85: Association of Olim from Minsk and its Surroundings in Israel, 2 volumes, 1200 pages. Volume 1 has 696 pages and Volume 2 has 504 pages. There is a separate table of contents for each volume. Only a few chapters have thus far been translated, which appear at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/minsk/minsk.html along with an index database and a table of contents for each volume.
After the establishment of the Communist regime, Jewish communal and religious life was silenced, replaced by institutions of Jewish culture based on Yiddish and Communist ideology. In June 1942 it is estimated that the Jewish population was 90,000, about 37 percent of the population. Thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi advance went to Minsk so that even though thousands of its residents had been murdered before the ghetto was established, at least 85,000 Jews were confined to the ghetto. A slave labor camp was located in the ghetto. About 10,000 Jews escaped the ghetto but only about half survived the war.
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Create Abstract Art to the Sounds of Nature Have you ever wondered about the color of a frog's croak and the shape of a bee's buzz? Let abstract art unfold at your fingertips to the sounds outside your door. Or tune in to Ecopsyched! Nature Pods for audible inspiration. No experience necessary! Explore the project…Read More


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With Memorial Day approaching we are gearing up for wedding season! This is the time to bring out the nautical dresses! I have included 10 options below from casual daytime to more formal evening dresses. Whether you are going to a small wedding on the beach or a big formal wedding at the country club there is a nautical dress for every summer wedding!
1. Lilly Pulitzer Sloane v neck maxi dress, $198 | 2. Kate Spade Tropez dress, $248 | 3. Kate Spade mariella dress, $398 | 4. J.Crew pleated knit dress in stripe, $128 | 5. Persifor Kilpatrick dress in baja sea fan, $198 | 6. Kate Spade Corley dress, $398 | 7. Donna Ricco Belted stripe matte satin dress, Nordstrom, $138 | 8. Kate Spade Elza dress, $448 | 9. Kate Spade Fiorella dress, $358 | 10.
Vineyard Vines chevron tail dress, $158
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
10 Nautical Dresses for Spring and Summer Weddings
Posted by Kate at 3:00 AM
10 comments:
Stripes Stripes and More Stripes YES PLEASE!ReplyDelete
I am in love with that ninth option! Wonderful picks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 21, 2014 at 11:08 AM
Ugh so gorgeous! I am LOVING the Kate Spade Fiorella one!ReplyDelete
I have number six and I absolutely adore it!ReplyDelete
xo Elisabeth
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I love anything nautical! Great post!ReplyDelete
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