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Is to provide you with the best possible total value for your eyewear needs. We are committed to using the latest technology in our lenses, materials, and equipment.
Is to furnish you with the eyewear that reflects your personality and takes you from Prescription to Perfection.
Dorothy Reynolds joined Optical Alternatives in the summer of 2010. Dorothy is a Connecticut-licensed Optician and also serves as President of the Connecticut Opticians Association. She is nationally recognized with certification from both the American Board of Opticianry for ophthalmic dispensing, and the National Contact Lens Examiners for contact lenses. She is a proctor for the State of Connecticut Opticians Examination for Licensure.
Rebecca joined our team in January 2019. She has over 15 years' experience working for Optometrists and Optical Stores in Fairfield County. Rebecca loves the challenges of fixing frames and problem-solving. We are very happy to have her with us.
Spending time selecting eye glass frames is fun with Dorothy. Making this kind of purchase isn't easy, and with her expertise, and prices, I am really happy with my glasses
I just picked up my glasses Saturday and love them. I love them more because as soon as I put them on i could 'see'. I say that because I made the mistake of going to a 'chain' eyeglass store and each time I picked up my glasses I had to search to find the 'spot' I could see from. I was impressed from the moment I went in. I'm very pleased with the selection, service, expertise and would highly recommend them.
This is the best place to get glasses. I wear a small frame and their selection was fantastic. They took a lot of time and patience with me during the selection process. The turn around from purchase to pick up was fast. They felt right from the minute I tried my new glasses on!
I highly recommend this business!
Great selection of glasses in a really comfortable setting. Dorothy was incredibly helpful when it came to picking out shades that are great for my face. I get compliments most every day! (yes today too)
When I went to pick up my new eyeglasses at Optical Alternatives the moment I put them on I could see better than I ever have in my entire life. Crystal clear vision with no distortions in the lenses. I can't tell you what a great experience I had at this store. The staff was very knowledgeable and professional. They helped me choose the style of frame that fit my style. Dorothy explained why she liked certain frames on me. When it was time to make the final decision I was confident I was making the right choice,"edgy but not trying too hard" is what they said about my selection. My 23 year old Daughter loves them too and that doesn't happen often. I would definitely recommend Optical Alternatives!
After years of disappointments at the big eyeglass chains, I asked my optometrist for a store recommendation and she suggested Optical Alternatives. I could not be more satisfied with this business. I received very helpful opinions on the frame selection. They offer very unusual and on trend frames that you won't see on everyone on the street. A couple of weeks after having a rough adjustment to my new progressive prescription lenses, I stopped by the store. Dorothy checked my vision and determined that I needed a tweak on my distance part of my lenses. I returned to the eye Doctor and got the new script. Optical Alternatives replaced the lenses at no additional cost! The service here is personal and top notch. Both Dorothy and Cindy are licensed Opticians so you won't be fitted for glasses by a novice. I highly recommend this business store for all your eyeglass needs.


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The older sibling to the small multi-purpose bag, the Dime Bags large multi-purpose bag offers all of the same stellar features on a larger scale. Use it as an every day cross body shoulder bag or take advantage of the padded protection. With three exterior zippered pockets and loads of internal organization, this bag is ready to go whenever you are.
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15 reviews for Large Multipurpose
This is now my favorite bag.
My wife loves this bag. It came with a lot of extra novelty items in the theme of "hemp", if ya catch my drift.
Absolutely perfect..
Love love love, great for carrying my glassware, or anything fragile. Perfect size, and very practical and reasonably priced. I just wish it would come in more colors (specifically magenta-to match my 10 in dime bag pouch).
Surprisingly light.
Love the overall design and size for most situations. Looks really well made. It's worth knowing this purse is approximately the size of a notebook.
The bag was big enough to fit my tablet. I wish the zipper was on top of bag to make access into bag easier. It's like a padded bag, which is nice for glass and stuff. It came with magnet, stickers, and patches to stick to bag. I prefer to be more discrete, so I'm sowing a patch over the Velcro spot.
This is a great bag. I use it all the time. I like this line so much I had to buy a tote they sell. A little smaller than I thought on the inside. But overall very happy with this item.
Love the overall design and size for most situations. Looks really well made. It's worth knowing this purse is approximately the size of a notebook.
I love the color! Perfect size. Ordered another one for a friend who fell in love with mine.
My favorite purse! So many pockets and room. i can fit everything i need for any occasion. Its discreet and fashionable for the office, and the padded walls give added protection for breakables. Wish it came in blue.
I've had this bag in green about 24 hours now, and I've already gotten lots of compliments. I'm also a dude, and this seems to slide past the murse category, and fit right in as a utility bag. Perfect for taking to work with me or just heading out to entertain.
I've currently got all sorts of things in it and it only looks mediocre full. I keep my phone, my wallet, a medicine container from a dispensary, a pretty small glass pipe, a grinder, 3 packs of wraps, a domeless nail plus size conversion for dabbage, lighters, cigs, a deck of MTG cards, and a few other odds and ends. The bag is plenty padded, well constructed to my eyes, I like the color scheme, and I'm very glad I ordered the matching owl label.
My only qualm is that the smell proof bag that came with the unit seems smaller than the bag allows, like I should have gotten a larger bag. It's certainly no deal breaker.
Thanks for the swag with the bag.
First off I'm a male and use this for my tablet gps and medicine kind of like a mans satchel I love that it isn't girly looking and has a very hippie like vibe to it and that's what draws me to thee bags 🙂 overall good bag to have around!

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I'd like to start by thanking you for clicking on this post and starting to read it. If you have been following my journey for a long time or you have read a lot of my blog posts then that is awesome! If you are new then welcome. I hope that my story helps you to realise that there is a big difference between being motivated to do something and being DRIVEN to do something.
For the last 4 years I have been writing, stopping, re-writing and editing a book about my life, I realised the other day that what I really want to say needs to just be said and put out there. The compilation of a book can come later. Just as I am going to write about my life and how being DRIVEN is the only way for you to overcome your challenges, so too should you apply this to the reading process.
This blog is not going to be a weekly blog like my previous motivational blog, the posts will come out when they are ready. There is a lot more reading to be done for you and more writing to be done for me. More importantly it takes time to tell my story and some of the things I will be writing about I will be telling people for the first time. A lot of things I find hard to talk about and writing them down takes me to some dark places. I write them with a sense of humour, however those moments hold the true education towards being DRIVEN.
My DRIVEN Blog is here to tell my story, my struggle, my walk through life. For some it might resonate deeply with a past experience, for some it might help navigate past obstacles that come their way. I'm hoping it ruffles some feathers because let's face it, life is hard and there are always going to be people that beat us down. The key for us is rising above the things that drag us down and learning to deal with the struggle. Remember, struggle is important.
To kick things off there is a fundamental process that I must explain. It is process of change, how the human mind deals with change and the different phases that we go through. I would like you to understand that change takes time, change takes struggle and hardship. The kind of change that I put myself through meant a complete re-wiring of the way my brain processed information. It was a complete re-wiring of how I ate, how I moved and lastly how much love I felt for myself. It all came from one source though, being DRIVEN.
The image below is how we, as humans, deal with change, and this will be touched on several times throughout the blog.
Whilst it is great to know the phases of change what I get most from people these days is a list of questions:
"How did you quit smoking cigarettes and weed?"
"How did you lose 10 stone?"
"How did you stop drinking?"
"What was the moment where you decided to change?"
"What diet did you stick to?"
"Who was your inspiration for changing your life?"
My answer to those questions is often long winded and I delve into my past, what I really want to say to people is that I was DRIVEN!
I have been in the fitness industry for a while now and when I started I felt like a kid in a giant toy store, excited and ready to dive into anything. Over my short time I feel that I have absorbed a lot and one of the things that stands out the most is that people in general are soft. People are scared of challenges, people are scared of hard work. We are living in an overprotected age, where good enough and being mediocre is glorified. An age of empty celebrity where you can be famous for being famous, if you don't believe me then look at Kim Kardashian and Dan Bilzerian. We are in an age where people are only used to working on their strengths and never of their weaknesses. A world where schools promote all children to be winners and there are no losers. Well, I'm telling you today that being a loser was the biggest thing that spurred me on whilst I was changing my life. Remember, struggle is important.
If you're offended then you either disagree with me or I've struck a nerve, I always say that the truth can hurt and the truths I found out about myself hurt a lot over the years. They still do.
If we are telling people that just being good enough is okay then how will we ever push ourselves to be greater? How will we ever reach our true potential as humans? I truly believe that we are all uniquely talented at something, the saddest part for me is that most people will go through life never realising their talent. Never being pushed to try new things, never being challenged because these days being mediocre is good enough.
Being DRIVEN means you rise above all of the bullshit you are told and the bullshit you sell yourself. Being driven means you are focused and you go for it no matter the odds or what people think!
When I speak to people these days about the goals that they have, or the things that they would like to achieve I often assess them based on where they fit in relation to the phases of change. I also use my bulshitometer, yes that is a real thing, to understand how badly they want to reach the change that they talk about.
The phases of change; were devised by two alcoholism researchers Carlo C DiClemente and J.O. Prochaska – the phases were created with the intention of helping professionals who were, in turn, helping their clients deal with change or addiction.
Their personal observations showed a very simple and fascinating wheel of change. Their model has 6 stages of change. Whilst there are over laps in the stages of change there are distinct moments in each phase that I can relate to in terms of my addiction to cigarettes, drugs and food. Maybe you can relate to them too?
Looking at the phases of change in relation to being DRIVEN and the way I will be writing you'll learn why I have actually tried and failed to keep my body fat at bay several times in my life, why I was bullied as a kid, why I came to hate a sport I loved, why I gave up on my dreams, why I became depressed, why I became broke and mentally living in a dark hole.
You'll learn that the struggles I've had have always been related to how my body was shaped at the time. You'll learn that every single excuse you've ever come up with for being stuck where you are existed before you, and will exist long after you have gone.
I write this blog with the intention of reaching people and letting them know that there are simple moments in your life that you can use to thrive off, they are moments that may seem insignificant but they have a profound effect on the way you view the world around you. If you fuel yourself correctly then you'll find that you are DRIVEN to your own personal success! That you are DRIVEN to be better than just good enough.
I write this blog to reach you and let you know that no matter what you may think there is always a way out of any situation.
If you'd like to be updated when a new post drops then hit the button below. All I ask is that you give yourself the chance to be open minded and give yourself the chance to be DRIVEN!


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I Am Abundantly Valuable: Prayers of Resilience in a Capitalistic Existence
I have been unpacking a core limiting belief throughout my growing as an artist, that "I am not good enough." And that belief has tied in deeply to my ability to truly envision and manifest abundant exchange for what I create in the world.
This is a Spiritual Wound that has been passed down through the generations of my people's colonized existence. It is a part of the ancestral burden that they never knew would be carried on by their descendants; a belief that was planted in my heart by my parents, and by theirs before them, and their parent's parents and further back yet, as my family has had at least 5 generations here in the US - the center of capitalistic, patriarchal, white supremacist governance. And before that, generations of our lineage were inflicted with wounds from countless colonizers who fed beliefs of inferiority, of dehumanization, of diminished self- and communal worth. The more I understand this, the more I confront how these beliefs come up in my daily living and how they are driven by a misguided sense of worth and value.
I am in a moment of my life where I am confronting these beliefs more fully than ever, and I am seeing how much Money has become key to what keeps that wound existent. We can quantify worth by monetary wealth, and we do. We have set up systems and structures that support this being a truth for all of us. We allow ourselves to determine the value of a human being with ease, just by looking to the amount of money they have and their ability to consume and contribute to this time we are living in, where capitalistic Value has become so crucial to existence that it is a key determinant of survival.
So if you do not make enough money, not only are you faced with the inability to live in health and wellness, but you also are seen as devalued by society and in turn, devalued in self. As I examine this wound, this belief that "I am not good enough," and how it is connected to capitalism and my survival, it becomes even more important that I open the wound further and see it fully for what it has been doing to my spirit. I understand the societal construction of these beliefs: how capitalism has served and continues to serve those who adhere to the constructs of division and inequality that keep a fraction of this existence in power over others and makes them in control of who benefits from natural, manmade, and human labor resources. These constructs have been created to tell me my value - that someone else has the power to mark my worth by a dollar.
And they have convinced those who love me most in my life and see me for all I am to feel they need to do the same.
My family gave me many gifts and lessons to uplift my being; they taught me to work hard, that labor would reap benefits, that the satisfaction of accomplishing, of producing, of creating what I intend to would grow me into greatness. They also taught me to find humility and humble myself through having immense gratitude for life - that even in moments of triumph and achievement, to remember that many people, many experiences, and God/the Creator contribute to my ability to succeed. They also simply believed in me - they saw the manifestation of their dreams and my own living out through my existence. You would think that this would be enough for me to thrive in this world, but what also exists within me are the more insidious beliefs that were instilled in my ancestral bloodline by a world driven by power over others, and not just the power of living fully in self.
As I have been unpacking here in this existence, power has been accepted as being tied to capital. And for those who have been taught that they have little to no power above the governing bodies that are in place, capital has been tied to survival. This is the story that I have been raised to believe: that money is the final marking of my ability to step into my greatest power, because it will assure my survival in this colonized, capitalistic existence. This is what my parents were taught as well, and so in contradiction to all the beautiful beliefs that they taught me so I can see myself as great, there were also messages laced with the need to show monetary wealth for that greatness. And because I have not been able to attain this in my 30 years of living, I have not yet reached a place of full potential in their eyes and in many moments, my own.
I hear the echoes of their concern that I have not yet "Made it" when my family says,"I don't know why you don't just find a better job… I don't know what is happening to you out there, but you need to figure it out, you need to make more money, maybe you need to just look for work that is outside of your field…" By speaking their beliefs out loud in this way, I've been put in positions where I've examined my work as worthless; because I know, to them, that even with all the communities that I serve, with all the creations I have birthed and all the artistic expression that I have poured out of me, with all of the love I have given to every one of my students and colleagues and to any relationship I have built in my artistic, activist and spiritual work, it still is NOT ENOUGH, because I still do not MAKE ENOUGH MONEY to show for the work I do.
I know they mean well when they say, "You're so smart/talented/hardworking, you can do so many other things that will pay you more… why don't you find something else to do, there has to be someone who will pay you more for your work, you can do better…," they are seeking to encourage me and remind me of my gifts, and they are also telling me that without the monetary exchange, I am being undervalued - I am not living in my full value.
I have pushed myself to remove my mindset from the need for that monetary recognition, because I have convinced myself that no matter how arduously I work, the type of labor I do cannot reap those rewards in this world. I have taught myself to live within the barest means, from paycheck to paycheck, without need for extraneous spending, without need for any materials, without experiences that may be luxuries - and mostly it has made me see how broken the world is because of its capitalistic structures of living. I understand that value goes deeper than monetary worth and that we have lost sight of that, as a society that has invested in the doctrine that allows us to believe that we can determine whether an individual has the worth to live the fullness of life based on their monetary wealth, that allows us to divide ourselves between the wealthy and the impoverished. We live in a world where self-worth is diminished by lack of monetary gain. And I have told myself not to accept that, that my value should not be tied to money, which is so true in principle; and yet I have suffered many times because I have refused to believe that I need money to be held as such a high determinant of my worth. How do I even begin to shift? To say, "Okay, I accept that I need and want more money, to show for my worth in what I create and labor and give to this world." It feels almost like giving up and giving into something that I have worked so hard not to. But why?
I don't want to tell myself the messages I have heard about adhering to the workings of capitalism that say, "that is just how things are…the world is not going to change," and play into the idea that I need to fall in place like everyone else. I won't make this the belief that drives the shift I am making in welcoming monetary value into my life - because it will not help to heal the ancestral wound of being "good enough" and seeing my self-worth as being abundant; because I understand how money is a construction that has replaced the need to understand fully our whole value of being. It is not the whole determinant of self value, it is not the core determinant of self value, but in this world it is part of it. I'm working on accepting this more than ever, and it's difficult, because I have worked against living with this lens that intentionally placed any value of self on money.
As I dream of a life with my partner where I can raise a family with him, where we can grow our children in a home that we call ours and can give them the opportunities to grow with enrichment of experiences and connection to life, I think of how money is necessary to do these things. And I pause and confront deeply my continued ideas of living at my barest needs and not asking for more monetary exchange, because of the twofold belief that 1: I should not buy into the capitalistic marking of value, and 2: that I would not be able to attain it anyway, because I never have before. I understand Value in a deeper way than just being determined by monetary worth, and also, I need to live. I need to survive. I need to experience this living beyond the narrative of struggle and oppression that is written with capitalistic divide. And so I am teaching myself to see all the notions of value being important for me to accept in abundance, because I am worth all of it.
Everything that I create in this world of art, expression, relationships, community, sacred space, and existence is valuable. I am valuable, by all means. All I create has abundant value. All I give in labor and service has abundant value. All I contribute with my living has abundant value. I am abundantly valuable. My value is abundant. This is the belief I am intending to live by, that will include exchange that gives monetary value to my creations, to my labors, to my contributions to this living; because although it is not the center of value and self-worth in my life, it still is a means of value in this world. I believe that I am worth all of what this world has to offer. I believe we all are.
I honor the value of my ancestors as I honor my own value, and I hope to have my children and their children's children echo this affirmation: "I am abundantly valuable. My value is abundant."
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Jana Lynne "JL" Umipig is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and activist who seeks to elevate the narratives of Pilipina wom*n as a reflection of her own life's journey toward decolonizing, re-indigenizing and humanizing self. She is the creator of the acclaimed Movement Theatre production "The Journey of a Brown Girl" which has been noted as a "transformative human experience through the lens of the Pinay Narrative." She is a core member of The Center for Babaylan Studies, an Inner Dance facilitator, and founder of Butikaryo mga Babae, which creates sacred space for Pinay Womxn Healers seeking to learn and remember healing practice and knowledge connected to our ancestral traditions.


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Q's Daily DIY Green Tips: Sizing Your New Refrigerator
When choosing a replacement for our old refrigerator, bigger is not necessarily better. Consider how many people will be using the refrigerator and how much will really need to be stored in the refrigerator. On a sail boat, smaller "college dorm" size refrigerators are often used. This is for a reason. Sail boats under way are subject to finite amounts of energy. On a much larger scale, so are we. Bigger refrigerator units will use larger amounts of energy. If energy saving is a goal, make practical usage a criteria of your selection.


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Dolphin Point Villas is a coastal wedding venue located in Key Largo, Florida. Featuring a stunning sand jetty lined with palm trees and the Florida Keys' sunset as a scenic backdrop, this bayfront setting is perfect for intimate wedding ceremonies, receptions, or cocktail hours.
Facilities and Capacity
Dolphin Point Villas offers covered and uncovered outdoor event spaces that can hold up to 125 guests. Couples and guests can stay in the six Caribbean-style homes as well as the Nautilus House, which spans 4,235 square feet and overlooks the bay.
Services Offered
Dolphin Point Villas caters to various events such as ceremonies, receptions, bridal showers, and engagement parties. The venue also offers the following services:
Other Services
While staying at Dolphin Point Villas, couples and guests can enjoy a wide variety of outdoor activities. These include:
Recommended by 98% of couples
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Staci · Married on 10/20/2018
Beautiful venue!
Visiting Florida from Texas for a destination wedding, we came across Dolphin Point Villas. As soon as we arrived, I knew this was where I was going to get married. Not only is their venue absolutely GORGEOUS, they also run a non-profit dolphin rescue right next door. Working for an animal rescue myself, I can't help but love and appreciate another organization that supports and gives back to the community. Along with that, the staff was fantastic and welcoming and gave us an entire tour of the property. We immediately fell in love. We canceled visiting any other venues and the months leading up to the wedding, Sharon, the wedding coordinator for the property, would answer any question I had and made sure everything was how I wanted. We rented the Nautilus House with the wedding party and rented out 2 other houses as well. the entire weekend was sooo fun and perfect. Everything was beautiful and the houses are designed perfectly to the smallest detail. Sharon worked with my wedding planner at Key Destination Weddings and Events to make sure everything was perfect. I do not believe there is a more perfect place to get married at than Dolphin Point Villas-from their support of their community, to the beautiful detailing of the houses, the ceremony point and reception area, to every single staff member everything was perfect.Sent on 11/04/2018
Karina · Married on 11/04/2017
Wow. Is pretty much all I have to say. We had our wedding at Dolphin Point Villas on 11/4/17 it was the most magical day I could have ever imagined. My bridal party enjoyed getting ready in the bridal suite overlooking the bay of the Florida Keys. While the groomsmen got to paddle board and fish off the docks of the property. It has all you could imagine. From entertainment outside, beautiful interior inside and a wonderful Keys ombiance. Sharon was more then helpful and understanding with my over obsessive phone calls leading up to the day. All of our guest raved about the venue and how beautiful it was. Didn't hurt we got to do the rehearsal there too! I would recommend this venue over and over and over again.Sent on 11/17/2017
Anna · Married on 10/28/2017
Words can not describe how excited I am to have our wedding here. Took a tour of the property and it's is just magnificent!! Sharon was super helpful and informative.Sent on 02/11/2017
Join us, Dolphin Point Villas along with our co-host Key Destination Weddings for a great Sunday Funday here for the 3rd Annual...
Florida Keys Destination Wedding Show!
Take a tour of Dolphin Point Villas and see it set up for a wedding... speak with our co-hosts Key Destination Weddings & Events, meet with Officiants, Beauty Teams, Photographers, Planners, Floral Designers, Cake designers, and more.
Create your very own A-team of top-rated professionals all in one place for your wedding day on January 26, 2020.
Enjoy Catering & Beverage Samples, Live Entertainment, a fashion show, grand prizes, and more.
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Wonderful place for the 1) Florida Keys Destination Wedding Show 2) Destination Beach (& Dolphin's) Wedding. Featuring modern, elegant, Keys style chalets interconnected to pools and each other. A secluded property with Dolphins next door. The companies are linked. The staff are local and compassionate. It's a family owned business, so that features heavily in their service and their ambience. Enjoy! Let them know you read our review and recommended them. I had the pleasure of filming several events here and each time never wanted to leave. Local film maker Nada Jones
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Unique Features with Paul F. Tomkins and Janie Haddad Tompkins Episode Guide/
We continue our celebration of partnership and All Couples February with married couple and comedy cuties, PFT and Janie. They discuss embracing the features that make you unique, coordinating special occasion outfits, and not sharing grooming products. Plus, how to rock a hat with confidence and the origin story of the Paul F. Tomkins signature suit.
Here is everything below that we discussed! Cruelty-free products will be marked with an asterisk (*).
Special Announcement
Rachel Bloom will be Jackie's guest at the live Natch Beaut recording at South by Southwest in Austin, TX. Got a question for Rachel? Submit it on the Ask a Guest page.
PFT's and Janie's signature scents
Where to get a custom PFT-worthy hat
The Wellema hat company in Alta Dena, CA
Heimie's Haberdashery in St. Paul, MN
- Bumble and Bumble
- Shower head filter
- Magic Move*
- Oribe hair spray
- Cheap satin pillowcases on Amazon
- Florapy Sweet Dreams Mask*
- The Creme Shop Wake Up Mask (The naughty snowman mask is out of stock!)


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Boston Opera Collaborative Presents: Don Giovanni
Roslindale Tenor to perform with Pilgrim Festival Chorus
Tenor Fran Rogers' recent opera credits include Puck in the world premiere of Scott Wheeler's Midsummer, Don Jose in The Tragedy of Carmen, Venditore Ambulante in Puccini's La Boheme (concert performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood), Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Art in Solitro's Triangle (world premiere), Dos Senores in I Am Easily Assimilated from Bernstein's Candide (concert performance with Frederica von Stade and the Boston Symphony Orchestra), Ruggero in Puccini's La Rondine, Danceny in Susa's The Dangerous Liaisons, and Ramiro in Rossini's La Cenerentola. Fran recently made his Boston Symphony Hall solo debut performing a collection of songs by Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein. He is a regular national anthem soloist for Boston sports teams including the Celtics, Red Sox, and Patriots, having performed on multiple occasions for live audiences of up to 70,000 and international television audiences of up to fourteen million.


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A talk by Professor Jeffrey C. Kinkley (St. John's University and Portland State University)
Uncensored detective novels set in China that use murder mysteries to explore broader Chinese social problems—written outside of China, typically in English, and not always by authors of Chinese origin—have sold over one million copies worldwide, thanks not least to the efforts of Qiu Xiaolong. Yet Qiu's detective novels are not the only ones, and he did not start the crime fiction phenomenon. Is there a global discourse here, beyond the usual diasporic, expat, Sinophone, Anglophone, cultural identity, and Orientalist paradigms?
Jeffrey C. Kinkley 金介甫, retired from teaching at St. John's University, New York City, is a Courtesy Professor of History and of World Languages and Literatures at Portland State University, Oregon. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, translator of modern Chinese fiction, and author of monographs about Shen Congwen and his times, China's avant-garde historical novels, and fiction written in Chinese about crime, the law, and corruption.


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Introduce the youngster in your life to the game of golf, instruction is completed by Andrew Harvey. All areas of the game, from the etiquette, to the course management aspect are important to learn at an early age in order to enjoy golf to its fullest!
Individual junior lesson rates
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The CRTC has wrapped up its hearings on wireless policy. This was the second round of the of three major CRTC policy hearings this fall (the other two are Let's Talk TV, in which the public hearings have concluded, and Wholesale Access to Wireline Facilities, which are due to commence later in November). The hearings are ground-breaking in that the Commission as so far forborne from regulating wireless (cellular) services in general, and it first intervened to protect wireless customers from burdensome contract terms.
In the present hearings, the focus was on the intercarrier aspects of wireless networks, namely, wholesale roaming rates, tower sharing, and wireless resale.
As one could expect, the major incumbents (Bell, Telus, Rogers) exalted the current state of competition in wireless services, defended their roaming pricing, called for mandatory forbearance of wireless services, and couldn't understand why anyone would complain about their response to tower-sharing requests.
The minor players, such as Eastlink, called for wholesale roaming pricing, more effective oversight of tower-sharing and other disputes arising between the smaller operators and the large incumbents.
Both the major and minor wireless carriers opposed wholesale access for resale purposes.
It is evident that, if there is to be effective facilities-based competition in wireless services, more has to be done by the regulator to ensure that there is a levelling of the playing field between the major and smaller wireless carriers. Industry Canada does not have the tools to regulate the business practices of its spectrum licensees: this is a job uniquely suited to the CRTC. Some rule making and effective enforcement activity is necessary to bring some minor dash of fairness to the wireless marketplace and, perhaps, provide some measure of relief for consumers.
Wholesale access to wireless services for resale purposes remains contentious and opposed by facilities-based carriers of all stripes. While the majors argue that three rather than four carriers will produce effective competition, they simultaneously assert that any competitor should have to build out from scratch any competing network and be weaned from roaming and tower-sharing arrangements as soon as is humanly possible.
Meanwhile, the new entrants, envying the huge margins of the majors, seek to get in on the feasting, and do not want to hear of resale operators cutting into their prospective margins.
That no one has been able to come up with the financing to launch a fourth national wireless carrier speaks volumes about the risk the financial markets perceive in greater facilities-based competition in wireless services.
All of which suggests that choice and reasonable and flexible rate packages are only likely to come to consumers through resale competition based on wholesale access to the wireless networks of the incumbents. Let's hope the CRTC gets this right the first time around.


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Lorentz is not only a live-oriented analog modeling synthesizer, but also has a resonator that makes metallic and aggressive sounds. This makes it easy to create a new synthesizer sound with a resonator added to the sound like an analog synthesizer.
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The trailer for 2018's Hereditary implied a traditional batch of jump scares, creepy kids, and the general sort of haunting we've come to expect from modern horror. It's a great feint, the first of many, because the movie itself ends up being quite slow, deliberate, and just plain wild.
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At the Southern tip of India, the capital city of Kerala, Vizhinjam is known as "God's own country". This busy port is flooded with fishing boats that push out in the dawn light to return by dusk. The rustic and earthy village, overlooked by a majestic orange and white mosque, possesses a unique atmosphere.
Pagoda-shaped buildings with red-tiled roofs line the narrow, winding lanes, and life slows as you head away from the main strip.[ReadMoreMob] The Shree Padhmanabhaswamy Temple, dedicated to Lord Vishnu, is an 18th century rock- cut temple adorned with some truly amazing sculptures, and has been held sacred by Hindus since antiquity.
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Vizhinjam Rock Cut Cave Temple is a historic monument featuring 18th century rock cut sculptures, which were unnoticed for centuries. Considered to be the smallest rock-cut shrine in southern India, the Vizhinjam Rock-cut cave dates to the back to 8th century. This rock cut cave is now a protected monument under the control of the Archaeological Survey of India since 1965.
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I am always inspired to do a bit of wreath making at this time of year as we approach Christmas (eek!) Something about a wreath makes my heart happy - they are so ancient and festive. People have been making wreaths for thousands of years, and I can understand why.
I am rather partial to a messy wreath, and the bracken is so plentiful and beautiful at this time of year that I decided to put it to use. I gathered this from the hedges near mum and dad's house in Wales on the way back from a recent trip to Pembrokeshire.
It happens to make excellent wreath fodder as its stems are malleable and strong so they don't snap as you're bending them, although the fronds are fragile so need gentle handling.
I wanted the wreath to look quite organic so I used strong wire to make the frame so that it wouldn't be a perfect circle, although I have used the ready-made wreath rings before and they work very well too. I also used a bit of florist wire just to keep everything secure.
Dried hydrangea heads provide volume and structure, and a bit of colour. These tawny green ones came from the garden in Pembrokeshire and are so lovely I keep wanting to take pictures of them.
My wreath making session took place one evening after work!
It's very easy to make the circle although it does hurt your hands a bit. I did three rounds of wire for strength.
When I was happy with the frame, I started tying/twisting on the bracken, tucking it in between the wire and bending it into the shape I wanted.
Excuse my yellow hands - turmeric not nicotine stained I promise!
I kept going until the whole ring was covered and it felt secure. I tried to follow the natural curve of the bracken if that makes any sense at all.
And voila! One wreath.
And here it is on our front door, where it has been getting a bit of a battering in the wind (and attaching itself to people as they go in and out).


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Great Zimbabwe was a massive stone city in southeastern Africa that was a thriving trade center from the 11th to 15th centuries. But when Europeans first learned of it in the 16th century, they were certain it wasn't African at all.
In 1888, Cecil Rhodes and John Smith Moffat duped the king of the Ndebele people into a treaty which led to the expansion of British territory in Africa. From then until the late 1900s, Rhodesia was governed by a white minority. Read the show notes here.
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From 1945 to 1947, Hiram Walker Distillery commissioned this group of paintings, created by some of the masters of American Scene Painting, for use in their Imperial Blended Whiskey ads. The artists were free to paint what they chose as long as their piece included one important aspect: Hiram Walker's whiskey barrels. Though these paintings became lost to time, they were re-discovered in the late 1980s when the old Hiram Walker distillery in Loretto, Kentucky was purchased for use by Maker's Mark.
Artists include Thomas Hart Benton (1889 – 1975), a world-renowned Regionalist whose easel and mural paintings often depict laborers; Franklin Boggs (1914 – 2009), a Uruguay- and Argentina-trained muralist for the Tennessee Valley Authority; Paul Sample (1896 – 1974), a Louisville-born painter of New England landscapes; and Zoltan Sepeshy (1898 – 1974), a Hungarian immigrant who painted the "railroad bridges, factories, miners, grimy city scenes, [and] unemployed park habitués" of midcentury America.
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Mary Brogger was cruising the spines at Myopic Books last winter--a conceptual artist on the prowl for concepts--when she picked up William James. Eureka! It was love at first read. "No absolutes, truth depends on practical outcomes, process is all;" she says, rattling off the charms of James's old line on pragmatism. "I was predisposed to it. It's what I had been practicing all along."
Brogger, a motorcycle mama with ice blue eyes and a pixie's grin, had already established a body of sculptural work that stood certain "absolutes" on their ears. Her delicately patterned Persian rugs, brocade chairs, and damask curtains, all cut out of steel, defied traditional, constraining women's roles.
For her current show at N.A.M.E. gallery, Brogger employed a Mobius strip to evoke the Jamesian idea of "no absolutes," twisting a piece of paper with two distinct sides into a single, endless surface. She also rigged the show's opening-night performance to give herself something to do when she came face-to-face with her public. Guests at the reception found her installing the show--hauling a drill around, lifting 14-foot mirrors into place. There's a conceptual rationale for this, but the practical outcome was that she was purposefully engaged.
"Part of me is an egomaniac," she says. "I love to be the center of attention. But the reason I'm in sculpture is that I don't feel I can communicate verbally. The only way I can be a public person is if there's a role to play."
Brogger's show, "Strip," consists of three hinged seating arrangements, two mirrors, and a video of a faceless mason grouting a brick wall. The lighting from the previous show has been left in place, Brogger says, to suggest continuity. If that's a tad too subtle for some viewers to pick up on, she doesn't mind.
"Strip" continues at N.A.M.E., 1255 S. Wabash, through June 25. Gallery hours are noon to 6 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. Call 554-0671 for more information. For a look at one of Brogger's sumptuous iron curtains, visit Oak Tree Restaurant on the top floor at 900 N. Michigan.
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heres the Kalamazoo & Lansing brief history..
surveyed in 1880 to run from K-Zoo thru Richland past Gull Lake then Vermontville to Lansing the KGL&L ran out of money after building as far as Gull Lake. Some resort traffic to Gull Lake and a couple of industries in Richland kept the wheels turning but no profits. Around the turn of the century the GR&I wanted access to Lansing and looked into buying the KGL&L but was stopped by the MC and the Michigan Commisioner of Railroads but the GR&I did fund the reorganized K&L to upgrade its roadbed and terminal in K-Zoo as well as finish the line to Lansing. The K&L was able to keep its corpate identity as well as its local ownership thru all this and with the GR&I(PRR) traffic to Lansing was turning a profit by WW1. in 1919 a large and ornate terminal was built in K-Zoo. containting passenger station freight house and l.c.l. facilities. A team track is available as well as service to a local warehouse and Gates Fine Furniture factory.
at Parchment Jct a few miles out of Enfield the East Jordan Iron Works has opened a small sorting and shipping warehouse sending 2 in 2 out 5 days a week. also at P.Jct the Gooderham Fuel Co. has set up for receiving coal fueloil and soon gasoline to the tune of 3 to 5 cars a week.
at Richland we find a team track and l.c.l. in the passenger station. the Richland Co-op is a good sized feed/elevator that sees between 3 a week off season to needing a fulltime job and 10 in and out a day peak season. a lumber dealer also recieves 1 to 3 a week.
around the southern edge of Gull Lake we find a lakeside resort wth a flagstop as well as the Speed Queen Washing Machine factory seeing 3 a week
Vermontville (end of modeled) has a team tack and a small elevator the 2 getting 3 a week. there is also a wye to turn.
by 1940 (era modeled) the line had survived the Depression fairly well and was ready to help win the War. the Pennsy sends anywhere from 5 to 15 cars a day to Lansing via Enfield and receives same. the MC also 2 or 3 a week to the l.c.l. dock in Enfield. with the Pennsy showing up once every 12 hours Enfield keeps a yard job almost full time busy.
the only passenger is "The Gull". makes 2 round trips a day. the Gull Lake stop still popular enough for outa-towners that it keeps the train running. the Co. is debating to put l.c.l. for Richland on The Gull instead of on trains 2x
trains 1x are Enfield to Lansing road freights. usually 1 a day each way with PRR cars and K&L cars for Lansing returning with PRR cars. extra x1x as needed
trains 2x are locals ran atleast daily (the Vermontville turn) but extra x2x as needed such as grain rush at Richland
power will be well maintained USRA type steam. 0-6-0's for Enfield, Lansing, and Richland as needed. the 2x power most likely will be 2-8-0's (maybe an ex-Pennsy's H class...still under advisement by the Company) and the "big" power for the 1x trains will be the 3 heavy USRA 2-8-2's built around 1930
The Gull will have 1 Pennsy Pullman 3 days a week from Enfield to Lansing the RPO/baggage and heavyweight coach. the Company is debating on power. Alco has been pushing hard for a trial with a diesel. but 3 days a week it could be a K4s


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- am I hungry?
- angry?
- lonely?
- tired?
These 4 can knock you off track. So when you feel irritated, or ready to go on a sugar-binge, ask your self about HALT. Don't let them mess with your progress. Let's do this.
But you could do with chicken or I've even read that you can grind up walnuts for "meat" in your taco (Beyoncé does it).
Here's the awesome recipe.click here.
Get a deck of cards out.
Step 1: assign each an exercise to each suit. For example,
Step 2: flip over cards using the entire deck, doing the assigned # of repetitions per card. Like if you get a 4 of clubs, you do 4 v-ups, then flip an 8 of spades, do 8 burpees. Assign the face cards a value also, like Jacks = 11, Queens = 12, etc.
Let me know how it goes.
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AMMO, Inc. has a new line of self-defense ammo that allows shooters to track their shots at night as if they were using military tracer rounds.
The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company has completed research and development of the Night OPS line of ammunition and will begin production and distribution in late spring, according to a recent press release.
"The labs at AMMO, Inc. set out to create the ultimate round for law enforcement, military training, and self-defense use," the press release states, describing how it blends the STREAK Visual Ammunition and OPS lines of ammo.
"Night OPS is the revolutionary combination of AMMO, Inc's two most notable technologies: non-incendiary visual ammunition and frangible hollow points."
Night OPS's tungsten-copper-composite frangible projectiles dump 100 percent of their energy in the target, minimizing the risk of pass-through and collateral damage, the release states. The frangible projectile practically vaporizes on impact with steel targets, eliminating spall and ricochet.
Hyper-Clean technology fouls less, decreases malfunctions and cleaning time, and increases training time, according the release.
"With Night OPS, defenders and law enforcement can track their shots and adjust fire quickly," Ammo, Inc. officials said in the release.
"Night OPS enhances training for individuals and agencies alike. The visual aid generates no heat, and frangibility increases safety when shooting steel targets at handgun distances -- the perfect choice for military and law-enforcement indoor and close-contact training."
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Planetary Gig Talk – Tales of Music and Magic – is a podcast hosted by Jefferson Glassie, chief spiritual dude of the Planetary Gigs Society. He will interview musicians, music lovers, scientists, and others in lively talks evoking personal stories about musical experiences, the power of music, and ideas about how we can work together through music to develop a community with the intention of bringing peace.
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It all started with our CEO and Founder, Mr Mak Chee Wah, himself an experienced entrepreneur in the IT industry. A frequent traveller, he would personally coordinate all his travel arrangements, which meant he spent a lot of time planning his trips, searching for the best deals, making the bookings and applying for visas, before the journey actually commenced.
His first hand experience meant he was kept abreast of the latest developments in the travel and tourism industries, enabling him to foresee the immense value behind integrating mobile, social media, big data and cloud technologies.
He realised that the establishment of a one-stop holistic platform – where travel-related businesses and government agencies can come together to offer their products and services – will bring untold convenience to travellers. He envisioned it to be easy to navigate, informative and fun for globetrotters to use, giving them peace of mind right from the start of their journey.
Spurred by his idea, Chee Wah gathered a team of experienced travel industry executives to fulfil his vision, and so WEGOGO was born.
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Our mission is to motivate millions of Chinese travellers to discover and share the world's most amazing, exotic and inspiring experiences with their friends and family, by connecting them through our mobile platform. They are our WEGOGOers.
In doing so, we hope to empower indigenous communities to preserve their way of life. We also want to introduce travellers to these societies that are so different from their own. With these twin objectives, the result is a WEGOGO community that provides authentic insights and carves out adventure trails for others to follow. They are the true heroes of our unfolding WEGOGO story – to make travel a transformative experience of a lifetime.
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■ Travel will transform their attitudes and lifestyle.
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Family member with addiction problems: How to cope
This article starts off by asking the question - Where Are Your Feet?
One of my favorite questions to ask myself when I am feeling out of control or pulled in a million different directions with just too many things on my "to do" list is: "Where are my feet?"
I love the question of "where are my feet?" What a neat and strange question!
The author of this blog post, Maggie Harmon, asks this question to the family members of addicted loved ones when they find themselves caught in the whirlwind of anxiety about their loved ones' addictions. It can be exhausting to constantly think, worry, plan, and imagine all of the problems, issues, and ideas we have about a loved one's addiction.
Bringing ourselves back into the present moment and recognizing what we have, and what we don't have, control over are incredibly helpful when we find ourselves caught up in an anxiety whirlwind. So, where are your feet? And, where do you want your feet to go?
Family member with addiction problems: How to cope


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A blog about electronic cigarettes, the electronic cigarette industry, and maybe some other interesting things too. Enjoy smoking again with OK Electronic Cigarettes.
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In a final effort to suck the last iota of optimism out of Americans as the new year approaches, Barack Obama has declared that he intends to spend the next 12 months "squeezing every ounce of change" out of our country.
As verbs go, "squeezing" is at once unappealing and even threatening – calling to mind things like squeezing blood from a stone (or taxpayer) or applying crushing pressure to forceps in a federally-funded Planned Parenthood clinic. By its very nature, squeezing suggests a goal to which there will be resistance…and a bad outcome for that which is being squeezed.


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"If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
King James Version (KJV)
4:7 If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted? - Either, 1. If thou hadst done well, as thy brother did, thou shouldest have been accepted as he was. God is no respecter of persons; so that if we come short of acceptance with him, the fault is wholly our own. This will justify God in the destruction of sinners, and will aggravate their ruin. There is not a damned sinner in hell, but if he had done well, as he might have done, had been a glorified saint in heaven. Every mouth will shortly be stopt with this. Or, 2. If now thou do well: if thou repent of thy sin, reform thy heart and life, and bring thy sacrifice in a better manner; thou shalt yet be accepted. See how early the gospel was preached, and the benefit of it here offered even to one of the chief of sinners. He sets before him death and a curse; but, if not well - Seeing thou didst not do well, not offer in faith, and in a right manner, sin lieth at the door - That is, sin only hinders thy acceptance. All this considered, Cain had no reason to he angry with his brother, but at himself only. Unto thee shall be his desire - He shall continue in respect to thee as an elder brother, and thou, as the first - born, shall rule over him as much as ever. God's acceptance of Abel's offering did not transfer the birth - right to him, (which Cain was jealous of) nor put upon him that dignity, and power, which is said to belong to it, #Gen 49:3|.


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Greenhead 22 Halifax ERA 'A' 20
Another close one for the A team | 19/10/2016
For the 2nd consecutive game, Halifax ERA 'A' let a lead slip and fell to a narrow loss away from home - this time at Greenhead College.
Tries from James McKibbin (2), Lee Johnson and Sheldon McFadzaen, plus 2 McKibbin goals were not quite enough.
The game swung end to end as attacking games from both teams were on top. Halifax ERA led until the last 2 minutes of the game but then a fine individual effort from the Greenhead loose forward clinched the game for the home team.


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Old news: Someone hacked Adobe, stealing peoples' identities and banking details of people subscribing to their "Creative Cloud", stealing thousands upon thousands of dollars.
TODAY, I get a letter (not to be mistaken for an email) from them about it, telling me to change my password and to monitor my account. Seeing as I have Zero banking details as I don't do subscription software, I find this doubly funny.
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David M. Huntington of Oxford and his son Russell D. Huntington of Webster will long be remembered as kind and thoughtful men who cared deeply about children.
Shirley A. Huntington, David Huntington's wife of 51 years, made a generous donation to the Telegram & Gazette Santa Fund in memory of her husband and son.
"My husband liked to spend money," she said. "He can't do it anymore, so I'm doing it for him."
She is not a wealthy woman, she said, explaining that she donated $250 for each of her four children and $100 for each of her six grandchildren.
"My husband and son loved children," Mrs. Huntington said. "Their family meant the world to them. They would have wanted this."
The elder Mr. Huntington was 71 when he died at home on Christmas Day 2007 after a long illness. He was a union pipefitter, who served as business agent for the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 4 in Worcester and business manager for the former Pipefitters Local 408. He was vice president of the Worcester-Fitchburg Building Trades Council.
"Dave was a good man," Mrs. Huntington said. "There were guys in the union who didn't work enough to be able to pay their dues, and he came up with the money."
He also volunteered for many community activities, including working at a food bank to help out-of-work union members, Dads Against Diabetes and the local handicapped ramp program.
Russell Huntington was 53 when he died on March 1, 2010, following surgery. He was a 1975 graduate of Oxford High School and a union member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 4 for more than 30 years.
Like his father, he was a volunteer, serving as a Boy Scout leader and Little League coach in Webster when his children were young.
When he passed away, he left his wife of 31 years Donna (Brown) Huntington and two sons, Justin and Ian.
Oddly, both men were 13 years old when they met the girls who would become their brides.
"I guess we're just lucky," said the elder Mrs. Huntington.
She met David at a Valentine's Day dance in Worcester, where they both lived.
"He was at the dance to meet a friend, and saw me across the room, and that was it for both of us," she said.
Unlike many marriages today, the couple survived good times and bad, including the death of their infant daughter, Diane M. Huntington. They have two daughters, Lisa Huntington-Ware of Oakham and Julie Kudron of Oxford, and six grandhildren.
"My husband and my son doted on their children, and my husband adored our grandchildren," Mrs. Huntington said. "It was nothing to see my 6-foot husband sitting in the sandbox making mud pies with the kids."
She added: "I wanted to make this donation in memory of my husband and son to help children. They would approve."
In its 75th year, the T&G Santa Fund collects thousands of donations from generous readers and area residents to help buy toys for children in need in Central Massachusetts. Children 12 and younger who would otherwise not receive any holiday gifts are eligible to receive at least two toys each. No applications will be accepted directly by the T&G.
Area agencies working with the T&G Santa include: the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities Family and Children's Services of Southbridge, Gardner Community Action Committee, WHEAT Community Services and Winchendon Community Action Committee.
Anyone who wishes to contribute to the fund can do so by clipping and filling out the form in the newspaper and mailing it to Telegram & Gazette Santa Fund, c/o Commerce Bank, P.O. Box 15204, Worcester, MA 01615-0204 or by going to www.telegram.com/santa to donate by credit card.
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Reflections On Beyond Great Service
Dec 11, 2018 • Features • Management • mobile workforce management • field service • field service management • field service technicians • Jim Baston • Service Management • Service Revenue • Selling Service Beyond Great Service
I was asked recently if my thinking has evolved since writing Beyond GREAT SERVICE, The Technician's Role in Proactive Business Growth. The book is based on the premise that field service professionals add tremendous value when they use their experience and expertise to make recommendations that will help their customers to be better off.
As I reflect on the book, that view has not changed. In fact, it has been reinforced as I have worked with more and more companies across North America and in Europe and with their local offices around the world. I have seen how field professionals react favourably to this description of their role and how managers see the value of this approach. It squares the circle between service and sales.
Although there is nothing specific that I would change about the strategy described in the book, there are two things that I would add. Firstly, I would spend more time and provide more guidance on strategies to implement a "Beyond GREAT SERVICE" approach. Secondly, I would focus more attention on the service nature of the field service team's proactive efforts.
"I have seen managers struggle to provide the ongoing focus necessary to achieve the type of cultural change needed to ensure that business development by field service professionals becomes an integral part of service delivery..."
I have seen managers struggle to provide the ongoing focus necessary to achieve the type of cultural change needed to ensure that business development by field service professionals becomes an integral part of service delivery. To achieve this requires systems, processes and most importantly, constant coaching and support. Not everyone on the team will be convinced of the service value of proactively making recommendations to customers, and many of those that do will be uncomfortable in those situations. Without the support structures and ongoing encouragement, even those field professionals with the best of intentions will gravitate back to how they have always done things in the past.
The reason that some managers struggle with the implementation of business promotion as a service is due to the very nature of the service business itself. The day-to-day immediacy of service pulls management away from the thoughtful, important but not urgent work that is needed to successfully engage technicians in proactive business development. Much of service is, by its very nature, reactive and that means much time is spent responding rather than initiating.
Although this is changing somewhat, there will always be a significant element of responding to unplanned emergencies that demand immediate attention and draws managers from the task of implementing a "Beyond GREAT SERVICE" approach. The irony in this is that, as progress is made toward implementing the "Beyond GREAT SERVICE" approach, the increasingly proactive efforts of the field team will reduce the number of, and resources required for, unplanned emergencies as many issues will be addressed before they become a problem. That means that the more progress managers make in implementing this approach, the more time they will have to support it – almost the opposite of what is needed.
It is also important that the Beyond GREAT SERVICE approach be viewed as an integral component of the service provided – as much a part of the service as troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining. Sure, you could argue that they are "selling" when they make a recommendation to the customer, but semantics aside, when the field team makes recommendations for the purpose of helping the customer achieve their goals they are really serving in its truest sense.
"Most service companies fail to achieve the results they desire when they engage their field service team in business development..."
The serving vs. selling perspective is a unique and critically important differentiator. From my experience, most service companies fail to achieve the results they desire when they engage their field service team in business development. In addition to the reason cited above, a contributing factor for these less than ideal outcomes is that managers don't integrate these efforts as part of the service. Promotion of services is often treated as an "add-on" that many within the field team see as "optional". Some even feel that promoting services is an unreasonable expectation by management.
If the field service professional's efforts are part of the service, it is easier to get the field service team to buy-in. They can see a direct connection between what they are doing in promoting their services and the impact on the customer's business. Customers see value in this too. When explained to them that the field service team is being asked to use their expertise to proactively identify steps that can help the customer achieve their business goals (as opposed to looking to increase revenues), they can see the benefit for their business.
So, to address these two issues, I would add this challenge for the reader of my book:
Assume for a moment that you will be adding a new service offering to your service portfolio. The new offering has the following characteristics:
- It is an add-on to existing services (does not replace)
- It's a new concept – the customer needs to be educated on the value
- New knowledge and skills are required to implement effectively
- No new tools or test equipment needed
- It has the potential to be highly profitable – efficiency in delivery critical
- The service relies on another division to deliver a part of the service
- There is a 1 to 2 year head start over the competition
When implementing a service of this nature, what steps will you take to ensure that you successfully and profitably introduce this service?
As managers ponder this challenge, they will come up with a list of things to be done such as: (Note: This list is far from complete)
- Define the service so it can be understood internally and externally
- Identify the processes needed to support the initiative
- Take steps to get buy-in from supporting divisions and a seamless coordination between groups
- Provide training and coaching to achieve the behaviour change needed
- Create the messaging and strategy to promote to our customers etc.
The point of this challenge is that the service described in the challenge is the service of promoting services to help the customer to be better off and this contributes to management's efforts in two ways.
Firstly, it gives them a better perspective of all of the moving parts of a successful strategy in a meaningful way that is familiar to them (they have implemented new services before). Secondly, when the initiative is recognized as a service, management will see that its implementation is not a "part-time job" that is pursued if there is time but rather an important service initiative that requires continuous focus to ensure its successful implementation.
By devoting more space in the book to helping management implement the strategy as a service, I think that Beyond GREAT SERVICE would become an even more valuable resource for those organizations that want to truly help their customers achieve their business goals. I have a feeling that a second edition is in the works.
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