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Touchdown! As we landed in Cairo I pressed my face against the plane's window. Was I really here? Yes, yes, yes! And happy to be here too. As we disembarked and were met by our tour coordinator, I greedily took it all in. Cairo is a bustling city, but the atmosphere was so different from anywhere I had ever been. Men hurrying about in gallabiya (traditional long robes worn by both men and women) or just chilling outside a cafe, smoking a sheehsa (water pipe). Groups of women in veils, chatting happily amongst themselves. But also lots of people in jeans and sport shirts, McDonald's and Pizza Hut. It was both tradtitional and cosmopolitan. Relaxed and frenetic. The citadel (the heart of medieval Cairo) loomed in the distance. Beside me taxis zoomed by at insane speeds. There was an intense dry heat that lulled me into a very contented state of being. Just landed and I was already under its spell.
All my excitement however could not mask the fact that I had just come off a veeery long plane ride, and was very, very hungry. When Nour, our cassanovish tour coordinator (he has 15 girlfriends and never sleeps), asked if we needed anything I immediately piped up, "Food!". So he took us to a street side snack bar where we had two of the most classic and common of Egyptian foods — fuul and t'aamiyya.
Appropriately enough (for me at least), Egyptians have fuul and t'aamiyya for breakfast. Hooray! My first egyptian breakfast food! Well, they have it throughout the whole day as well, but let's not rain on my parade. We grabbed some goodies chosen by Nour and hopped back into our van.
The picture above is a platter of t'aamiyya. Not seen in the picture is the big vat of oil in which they were fried. Below, is the t'aamiyya snugly ensconced in a pita, with chopped tomatoes, onions, parsely, and some tahina (sesame seed paste), half eaten by me.
T'aamiyya is the Egyptian version of falafel. It's more crisp though, and more green, owing to the fact that they have lots of coriander leaves or parsley together with the ground fava beans. It was definitely similar to the other falafels of my past, but had a slightly different taste…perhaps because it had more greens? Anyway, I loved it!Below is the fuul. Also neatly spread into a pita, also with some chopped veggies, and also being eaten by me. I was on holiday, so it was "do everything, eat everything" time. Wahoo! Fuul is greenish brown Arabic fava beans. They are boiled and mashed to make a paste, which in turn can be mixed with a score of other ingredients from chickpeas to eggs. This would fall under your Mediterranean bean pastes I suppose, like hummus, but with a different flavor altogether…closer to the taste of the darker bean varieties. It became a quick favorite, and we had it many times throughout our trip.Together with the fuul and t'aamiyya, we had a side of pickled vegetables called turshi (pictured below). Their sour/sweet crunch went perfectly with the heavy nutty-ness of our bean based snacks.
Our first meal in Egypt, though simple, was still a thrill. And looking back, probably one of my favorites. Jumping around the snack bar and pointing at all its offerings (and causing quite a stir in the process), stuffing our faces in a van that careened wildly at top speed, stopping in a side street to get some orange soda at a corner shop and meeting its cute proprietor Mohammed…all delicious fun.
Here's a little collage of street scenes (apt since our first meal was bought on the street). That cute little fellow in the green and yellow soccer jersey is Mohammed of the orange sodas. The two shawarma grills were from the snack bar where we purchased our goodies. And the other two pictures are of donkey-pulled carts of fresh produce, one of various vegetables and one with a crate of freshly baked bread.That's it for now…until my next Egypt post! Note: I must apologize for the quality of some of the pictures…as I said, I was in a wildly careening van while a few of them were taken 🙂


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By Lisa Capobianco
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Members of the Southington YMCA may have more parking spots to choose from by the end of September, as construction of the lots is near completion.
Director of Operations Tony Palmieri said there will be 99 additional parking spaces in front of the building alone, bringing the total number of spaces to more than 200 in the front.
This serves as phase one of renovations at the YMCA, along with roof unit replacements in work out areas and updates on the men's and women's locker rooms, which received new tiling, a paint job and new lockers. Renovations also took place at the Spirit, Mind and Body Center on North Main Street, which will feature the Women's Fitness Center, Studio 130 for yoga and pilate classes.Women's Fitness Center, Studio 130 (for Yoga, Pilates, etc. classes) and Rooted In wellness therapeutic massage.
Phase two involves renovations of the pool and the gymnasium. Palmieri said the goal is to make the pool accessible to residents with disabilities by installing an elevator. The plan also involves the addition of bathrooms and offices for staff members of the Aquatic Department as well as the improvement of the dehumidification system.
Executive Director John Myers said the pool has served the community for decades, and now it needs renovations for the benefit of local residents.
"The pool is an asset to our town," Myers said.
Myers reported his organization may turn the existing gymnasium into a "gymnastics" gymnasium, while a 10,000 sq. foot addition of the gymnasium may become a basketball and volleyball court. He said this new component will give parents an opportunity to drop off their children
"It will create a campus-feel for the Y," Myers said. "There will be more opportunities for families to do things together."
Although Myers has not scheduled a start date for phase two of the renovations, he said he hopes they will take off by 2014. For now, he looks forward to the future of Southington's YMCA.
"Time is in our hands now to make it a better Y for the community," he said.
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1-year-old boy dies after being left in hot car by dad
PHOENIX – A cash-only $500,000 bond has been set for a Phoenix man accused of leaving his 1-year-old son in a hot car while he went to work.
Maricopa County prosecutors say 28-year-old Brokale Lytte Marques was arraigned Tuesday on a second-degree murder charge.
He doesn't have a lawyer yet. An Oct. 1 status conference and Oct. 3 preliminary hearing are scheduled in his case.
Marques was arrested Saturday after his son was found at a Scottsdale mall parking lot in a lethargic state.
Authorities say Marques told investigators he left the baby in a car seat because he was unable to find a sitter.
Marques told investigators he initially left the vehicle running and the air conditioning on, but later turned it off.
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Brief stats on Grandpa:
General whereabouts and life before Oct. 1918 unknown.
m. Elia Legere 26 Oct. 1918, Lafayette, LA.
d. 20 Nov 1952, Sulphur, Calcasieu, LA,
Occupation: Brick Mason, Railroad Worker, Contractor
Possible residences before Oct. 1918: Beaumont, Orange, or other cities in TX [worked construction at Gulf refinery; may have worked on railroads in LA/TX]; worked for Wacheson [sp?] & Henigriff in Westlake, LA in 1918 and may have worked in Lake Charles or other LA cities; Atlanta [worked for George Fuller Construction], Stone Mt., GA; Savannah, GA; Louisville, KY; Nashville, TN; [worked on Louisville & Nashville Railroad]; Richmond,VA; Baltimore, MD.
He met my grandma Elia Légère in Sept. or Oct. 1918 in Orange, TX, through her brother-in-law, who knew him only as a fishing buddy he met on the Neches or Sabine River. They married soon after (I wrote about their relationship here) and we know his whereabouts (Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana) from then on, but his life from his birth c. 1873-1878 until 1918 (He and Grandma both died in La. in the 1950s) is almost a complete mystery to us. Well, the only answers we've found so far, anyway, just lead to more questions. To wit:
Or: did she die, they divorced, or could he have just left her? Or maybe they were not officially married? Were they separated? He did sometimes travel to get work, so living apart doesn't necessarily mean they were separated.
Would the Beaumont post office have archives of box holders back to 1918? Or was this a rural route box? How do I find out? Would it be on a map, if a rural route?
3. My dad took a Y-DNA test for me a couple of years ago. We're in a Hall DNA study group, but no one has come closer than matching 22 of 24 markers (we tested 37 markers; our closest match tested on only 24) yet--meaning our nearest common ancestor was probably 18-20 generations ago, most likely in the British Isles, perhaps Ireland. Maybe as more folks join, we'll find a closer match.
Interestingly, the others preliminarily grouped with us have roots going back to Virginia in the 1700s, so maybe Grandpa actually was telling the truth about being from Virginia. And now at least we know Grandpa was really a Hall, and not a Dillinger or a Capone! (though the jury's still out on whether he was in trouble with the law--which would explain why he didn't discuss his past... )
More to come, including notes on Grandpa's parent-candidates in Georgia...
UPDATE: Read Part Two here.
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CDOT tossing $10M at Highway 9 in Summit County
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BRECKENRIDGE – Eight years after it was approved, the Colorado Transportation Commission has committed $10 million to complete the Highway 9 widening project between Breckenridge and Summit High School.
After a two-year hiatus, work will recommence in the summer of 2013 and likely continue into the summer of 2014, according to local officials.
Colorado Department of Transportation crews will be widening the state highway to two lanes in each direction between Tiger Road and Agape Outpost church.
"It will eliminate the lane-scrambling currently happening northbound near Tiger Run and southbound near Agape church where the highway goes from four lanes to two," assistant Summit County manager Thad Noll stated in an email to the Summit Daily. "And (it) will significantly help with winter traffic issues when it's complete."
The project will also include a new roundabout at Fairview Boulevard and a new bridge over the Blue River at Tiger Run equipped with an underpass, allowing both the stream and the Colorado Trail to continue uninterrupted beneath the road.
The aging culverts that currently allow the Blue River to pass under the road have been a point of concern for CDOT engineers for some time.
The $2 million roundabout is intended to improve access to and from the Breckenridge Building Center and the Silver Shekel neighborhood.
The four-laning work and new bridge are expected to cost $8 million.
The project will cause significant traffic impacts, officials say, but is not expected to be as difficult to widen as the Valley Brook to Coyne Valley section because the highway is fairly flat.
Still ahead is the planned Hwy. 9 widening from the high school to Frisco, a project with an estimated $30 million price tag. An additional environmental study needs to be completed on the final stretch of road before the project design work can begin.
At the request of the county and other local interest groups, CDOT is considering a complete realignment of the highway between Frisco and Farmer's Korner across an area known as Iron Springs.
"The new alignment is nearly half a mile shorter than the current route, would improve recreational access to the reservoir, create a new recreation path connection between Swan Mountain Road and the Frisco recreation peninsula and likely reduce environmental impacts significantly," Noll stated.
CDOT initially shied away from the Iron Springs alignment because it would have cut through the pristine forests alongside the existing highway. But in recent years beetle kill has devastated the trees in the area, making the alignment a more viable option.
The Hwy. 9 widening project, intended to ultimately create a four-lane road running all the way from Frisco to Breckenridge, began with the stretch between Swan Mountain Road and Agape Outpost church, was completed in 2008 for $5.6 million. CDOT completed the $11 million expansion between Valley Brook and Coyne Valley Road in 2010 with the use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.
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Wantage MP Ed Vaizey has been given a new position in the Government reshuffle.
Prime Minister and Witney MP David Cameron has tweeted an announcement regarding Mr Vaizey's new post.
Previously Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Mr Vaizey is now appointed Minister responsible for digital industries.
A member of staff in Mr Vaizey's Commons office said: "We don't have any more detail yet on what the role will entail as the announcement has only just been made.
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I didn't sleep much last night. When I get home from a gig I am wide awake and restless. It usually takes me a couple of hours to come down. It all depends on how the show went. Last night I had a buzz running in my veins that I've never felt before. I was pacing the floors and reliving my night in my head for hours. God knows how many cups of tea I drank. I thought about the album. The songs. The show. The people I spoke with. The people I knew, the strangers I didn't. The reception. The cheers. The hugs. The complete joy.
I had a good feeling about this show. Rehearsals went great, but I was still a little nervous. The room was new for a start. I had never even been to Stage 3 for a show before. I took the train alone to the gig (I'm a terrible conversationalist right before I play). I closed my eyes the whole way there and smiled at the thought of our last rehearsal a few hours earlier. My band are amazing. Often when we jam I close my eyes and I imagine where I was when I wrote the songs. Some times its Castledawson. Some times its Brooklyn. I always get lost in a daydream. But I always come back, and I look around the room, and I feel blessed to be surrounded by such talent. Great people with great talent are so hard to find.
I wasn't ready to make an album until the start of this year. The writing process that began was intense. Melodies would come to me on the street. Or In a coffee shop. Or In the subway. Some songs took half an hour to write, others took weeks. But when the time came to go into the studio with my best ten songs I was so hungry to record. To stand in a sold out venue and perform West Orchard from start to finish was something that I will never forget. I am well aware that a lot of people got turned away last night, and I want to thank every single person that made the effort to come out. I wish we could have got everyone squeezed in. These are the nights that every musician dreams of. We all want our songs to be heard. We all want people to enjoy listening. Last night was like a dream, and I am going to relish it for a long time.
New York is a crazy place. When I moved here I quickly realized how intense the highs and lows can be in this place. One day you're up, the next you're down. But for me the highs always crush the lows. I instantly forget them, and I feel inspired.
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It doesn't shoot web fluid from its wrists, but Victor Mateevitsi's high-tech bodysuit could be the closest thing you'll get to experiencing real-life "Spidey sense." Inspired by Spider-Man—and the tingly sensation the comic superhero feels when danger is close—"SpiderSense" could allow the visually impaired to sense and avoid obstacles in their vicinity. Doctor Octopus himself would approve of its construction. The suit features small robotic arms encased in microphone-equipped modules that send and receive ultrasonic reflections from adjacent objects. When the ultrasound detects someone (or something) moving closer, the arms respond by placing pressure on the part of the body closest to the "threat." "When someone is punching Spider-Man, he feels the sensation and can avoid it," Mateevitsi, a computer-science graduate student at the University of Illinois in Chicago, told New Scientist on Friday. "Our suit is the same concept."
Mateevitsi tested the suit by blindfolding volunteers, making them stand outside, and asking them to "feel" for potential attackers. For fun, he gave each wearer ninja cardboard throwing stars to use whenever they sensed a person approach. "Ninety five percent of the time they were able to sense someone approaching and throw the star at them," Mateevitsi said.
The suit, or even just a few sensors on the arms and back, could help cyclists increase their awareness of traffic.
The suit, or even just a few sensors on the arms and back, could help cyclists increase their awareness of traffic.
But the blind aren't the only ones who could benefit from the suit. Mateevitsi wants to use the suit, or even just a few sensors on the arms and back, to help cyclists increase their awareness of traffic on the road. His team plans to present SpiderSense at the Augmented Human conference in Stuttgart, Germany, in March, as well as add more sensors to increase the suit's resolution.
"We humans have the senses that we are born with and we can't extend them, but there are some threats which are very deadly, but we can't sense them, like radiation," Mateevisti explained. "Electronic sensors can feel those threats."
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Today we saw another drama in the continuing misadventure of the new NYC taxi. It makes us wonder, why does the city even go to the trouble of setting a standard taxi?
StreetsideStig and GuacamoleFire broke down what a city is like without standardized taxis.
I still don't understand why the city gets to choose all the cabs. Shouldn't it be up to the cab companies?
I think a set of rules should be stated, MPG, size, and number of doors. That would make them rather uniform while still letting companies choose from a number of manufacturers, then, carmakers would battle for the market and you have a healthy taxi market that works within a designated Formula.
But why even have the formula? It seems like cab companies would automatically outfit themselves with durable, low-cost, efficient, and spacious cabs without even needing the guidelines.
You absolutely need a formula. In México we had the No Formula at all plan and all we got was that everybody chose the VW Beetle that was almost a landmark of our city. They just bought the most durable, cheap and unsafe vehicle out there. We now have a very lose formula, choose whatever with 4 doors and paint it in the official horrible color combo. We still have crap like this Hyundai Atos making the rounds but it is an improvement over the Beetle.
What do you think? What cars do you think would make a good taxi, and should it be up to the cab companies to pick 'em?
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Barry University men's basketball team fell four points shy of a school record in its 111-86 win over Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Thursday night in front of 834 in Health & Sports Center.
The Buccaneers (3-0) scored a school-record 115 points in a win over Puerto Rico-Humacao on Dec. 12, 1999.
Juan Ferrales had a career–high 28 points, hitting five of eight triples, and had four assists, four rebounds and three steals in 33 minutes. He was 7 of 13 from the floor and 9 of 11 from the free throw line.
The Buccaneers hit 53.6 percent of their shots, including 40 percent from beyond the arc, as five players reached double figures. Adrian Gonzalez finished with 22 points and six boards, going 11 of 15 from the field.
Barry point guard Deric Hill had a career-high 10 assists and six steals, while scoring 13 points and grabbing four rebounds. Magne Fivelstad and Yunio Barrueta each had 14 points. Fivelstad scored 10 of his points from the stripe, and had nine rebounds and a career-high six assists. Barrueta also had nine boards as Barry outrebounded Mayaguez (0-6) by 15.
The Bucs outscored the Tarzans, 55-32, in the paint, and 19-6 in transition. Barry's bench outscored Mayaguez, 41-17. Ten players scored for the Bucs, who are off for nine days when they host Belmont Abbey in the Barry Thanksgiving Classic two days after Turkey Day.
Gabriel Garcia scored 22 on eight of 16 shooting for the Tarzans, who shot 44.1 percent from the floor in a game that witnessed eight ties and six lead changes. Alexander Rivera had 17 points, and Jerome Carabello 13 points and seven boards for Mayaguez, who pulled down 33 rebounds.
The Bucs will host Nova Southeastern versus Belmont Abbey in the opener of the Thanksgiving Classic at 5 p.m. on Nov. 29 in HSC. The Buccaneers will tip off against Abbey at 7 p.m. the next night.


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Learning Lesson: Measure the Pressure II - The "Dry" Barometer
Barometers using mercury are heavy and fragile. The idea of "dry" barometer was conceived by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1700. The idea was to detect pressure changes using sealed bellows. The first working version of an aneroid (without water) barometer was built in 1843 by French scientist Lucien Vidie.
This made the barometer very portable and it became commonly use meteorological instrument. It was still calibrated to the mercurial barometer with readings in inches of mercury.
Even as late at the 1990s, National Weather Service offices still calibrated and verified the accuracy of the aneroid barometer with the mercurial barometer. Using simple items the student will make a device for indicating air pressure changes, called an aneroid barometer.
|Construction time 5 minutes. Observation time 5-10 days.
|Straw, Small metal coffee can, Plastic wrap, Scissors, Index card, Rubber band
|Thunderstorms safety
- Cover the top of the coffee can tightly with the plastic wrap, using the rubber band to hold it in place. (The cover should be a taut, airtight fit.)
- Position the straw so that it lays across two thirds of the cover with the remaining length of the straw suspended over air. Tape in place.
- Fold one short end of the index card, about one inch from that end, at a 90° angle. Tape the folded end of the index card to the can behind the straw in such a way that allows you to make marks on the card every day.
- Record the level of the straw onto the card.
- For the next 10 days, at the same time each day, record the level of the straw while paying close attention to how changes in the weather affect the straw's level.
What the students have constructed is similar to an aneroid barometer. It is the most common type of barometer for home use.
The aneroid cell volume is very sensitive to changes in atmospheric pressure as it expands and contracts as air pressure decreases or increases. Attached to the aneroid cell is a lever indicating the air pressure. In this case, the aneroid cell is the coffee can.
In this barometer, high pressure in the atmosphere will weigh more the pressure inside the can at the time the barometer was constructed. That added weight will force the plastic wrap into the can, causing the straw tip to rise, indicating higher pressure.
The opposite will occur when low pressure is in the area. The decrease in weight of air on top of the can will help cause the plastic wrap to rise, therefore lowering the straw tip.
Today, even with sensitive electronic sensors having replaced the metal aneroid cells in most barometers, those electronic sensors still need to be calibrated to ensure their accuracy. For that calibration, we still use mercurial barometers.
Live Weatherwise
One measure of the severity of a thunderstorm is the wind speed. In addition to the size of hail, the National Weather Service defines a severe thunderstorm as one containing wind speed of 58 mph (50 kts / 93 km/h) or greater.
The force of all of the molecules moving at 58 mph (50 kts / 93 km/h), or more, can create hazardous weather conditions such a blowing down phone and power lines, trees, and make driving hazardous. When the National Weather Service issues a Severe Thunderstorm Warning it means a thunderstorm with wind gusts to 58 mph (50 kts / 93 km/h) or greater and/or hail size of 1" (2.5 cm) or greater is occur or about to occur near you.
Discuss severe thunderstorm safety with your family. Everyone should know what to do in case all family members are not together. Discussing disaster response ahead of time helps reduce fear and lets everyone know what to do should a severe thunderstorm occur.
Postpone outdoor activities if thunderstorms are likely. Many people take shelter from the rain, but most people struck by lightning are not in the rain! Postponing activities is your best way to avoid being caught in a dangerous situation.


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An Overview of Logistics
If anybody has seen a UPS commercial in the last few years, they have heard the word logistics a lot. However, the meaning of this term is not as simple as it seems in the advertisements. The broad definition of this word is–the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and materials.
If anybody has seen a UPS commercial in the last few years, they have heard the word logistics a lot. However, the meaning of this term is not as simple as it seems in the advertisements. The broad definition of this word is–the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and materials.
Although, this definition can be broken down even further into different categories, based on what type of business it is. All businesses use logistics in some capacity, however to goods or services being provided affect how logistics are used from company to company.
This broad term can be broken down into three smaller terms that can help explain what logistics actually is. Those three terms are subsistence logistics, operations logistics, and systems logistics. Here is an overview of what they mean, and examples of those specific types of logistics.
Subsistence Logistics
This branch of logistics is concerned mainly with fundamental necessities that all humans need. Food, water, shelter, and clothing are all taken into account here; it is also stable and very predictable. Companies that produce these things find it relatively easy to pinpoint what is needed, how much is needed, and where it is needed.
It can be argued that subsistence logistics, is logistics in its most basic form; answering the questions of who needs what, and how much of it do they need? The fundamental nature of this category of logistics ties it closely to how primitive societies act. Although a primitive society wouldn't necessarily have business or enterprise, they would experience the need to allocate basic resources, which is what subsistence logistics is all about. In addition to early societies, this principle is paramount to an industrial economy. Finally, this provides the basis for a more complicated form of logistics.
Operations Logistics
This category of logistics takes things one step further. Instead of just being concerned with raw materials, and the supply of or demand of those materials, operations logistics has to do with implementing the systems that take these raw materials to produce the luxuries and necessities that Americans are able to enjoy.
Operations logistics is mostly concerned with the movement and storage of materials in and out of different enterprises. For example, bio banks which provide fundamental services for the progress of medical research. A biobank for secure storage can offer a multitude of operations logistics services including: lab transplant and relocation, chemical transport, lab relocation management, lab animal transport, bio repository management, and cold chain management.
Operations logistics is chiefly important to biological research as well as many other industries including fast food restaurants and automobile manufacturers. However, this form of logistics is relatively easy to predict as well, because of the focus on movement and storage. There are some drawbacks to this category of logistics though, because it cannot predict where an enterprise will experience a setback, the duration of the setback, or what it will take to get back on track. This type of logistics leads into yet another slightly more complicated form.
System Logistics
Subsistence logistics deals with the supply and demand of basic necessities and raw materials. Operations logistics implements the systems of movement and storage that make the inventory of a given business efficiently managed.
System Logistics builds on the idea of implementing systems for the control and distribution of resources and materials, and incorporates the aspects needed in order to keep those systems working properly. This category includes everything that supports the raw materials, storage, and distribution including: spare parts, personnel and training, technical publication, test and support equipment, and facilities.
An example of a company that helps other business accomplish this, as well as does so themselves is UPS. UPS, the national shipping service, aims to provide business with an efficient and effective way to move resources throughout a business. In addition to this, they have added services at their UPS store locations which offer printing and 3D printing, and other services to help small businesses integrate their flow of materials with their flow of information both within and outside of the company.
These services make it possible for smaller businesses to easily control all aspects of the business they conduct, and make it possible for them to focus on the systems that help deliver their products more closely.
Turning YouTube Into Your Personal 24/7 Lead Machine
Leads are one of the most critical aspects of any business. For most businesses, they are so essential that they are both the beginning and end of the most substantial ranging functions, such as your marketing funnels. Getting enough leads is a process that needs to continue at all hours, and this isn't as difficult as it used to be since the widespread application of the Internet.
YouTube is one of the best ways to make your marketing work for you 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The thing is, you need to make sure that your leads are coming in all of the time, which involves making sure that what you're putting out is evergreen. Evergreen content isn't seasonally based, and it makes as much sense to your intended clients in February as it would in August, and as much in December as it does in June.
Protecting Your Content
To start with, since you're already taking the time to protect your company from a legal perspective, you have to protect all you produce in the service of your company. By protecting your content, you allow yourself to both save an asset that took time to produce and to save your company image. Protecting your image includes every video and audio file you produce.
Some of the protections can be access-related. Allowing only partial access to your files can be useful, especially when there's less of an ability to add watermarks or other protections. Allowing access behind an email collection wall that only sends the link to people once you have some of their contact information can also help you protect your content.
Of course, in marketing, you usually want to cast a wider net than this.
The Hit and Miss Nature of Video
Since being an entrepreneur requires that you become comfortable with some level of risk, it pretty much goes without saying that many of your videos aren't going to "go viral" and become talked about by millions of people. Making videos involves making plenty that either will never have high viewership, or that won't have many viewers for a long time.
Even if you're a video-making professional, less than one percent of YouTube channels will achieve an "Internet famous" status. This isn't even counting success stories that reach a level of fame that transcends the Internet. Since there's so much content that's already out there, and so much of it is well-made, getting noticed quickly is all but impossible.
Nonetheless, sticking it out and making a significant number of videos is still a crucial part of your success. Making a handful of videos won't help nearly as much as producing a sizable number, just like making vague statements won't make the same level of impact as does making highly precise statements. Add value to the lives of your best potential clients, and speak in terms that will resonate with them, and you'll eventually attract the types of people who will buy from you.
The Types of Files
There are many different types of video you can make, and they respectively have advantages and disadvantages. The main types of video files are MP4 and WMV. Their respective homes are on Mac devices and Windows-powered devices, and the differences are worth noting.
WMV files are videos that tend to be of a smaller file size, which allows them to be uploaded onto YouTube more easily. The flexibility to make a video and upload it mere minutes later, even on a slower speed of connection, can contribute to making more content and doing so with a greater range of adaptation. Of course, this can lead to lower-quality videos.
MP4 videos can contain sound files, still images, videos, and extremely high quality. Since these are also native to Mac, they can be targeted to specific types of people, such as creative professionals. The downside to MP4 files is that they tend to be a lot larger than WMV files, so it can take a lot longer for these files to upload or play. Some users may have less attention span for loading times, and the additional level of video quality may not even be something that they care about. Some people will watch a video that was shot with potato, as long as it provides them with something entertaining or educational.
When you want to experiment with both types of videos, you can use Freemake Wmv converter to turn one into the other.
Want More Exposure? Here's How to Get Seen
While we all need to be online as a business these days, there are a lot of other small things you can do to ensure that you have the right kind of online presence. It's not just about being active on social media anymore, after all, as this is kind of taken for granted – if you want that competitive edge you've been looking for, you need to do more than what the others are doing.
You need to be a bit more innovate and think outside of the box in order to be recognised out there. The online world is a jungle, after all, and strangely lawless up until a few years ago; grab the opportunity to do something innovative now and your business may be able to lay the foundation for what other businesses are doing in the future.
First: Join the social movement
Today, there is no better way to get some serious business exposure than to show your market how much you actually care. Make sure that it comes from the heart, though, and that you're supporting a cause that you deem worthy. Otherwise, the community will certainly punish you for trying to take advantage of others to boost your business.
There are many ways to join the social movement, however, and how you choose to do it is up to you. Donate a couple of bucks for each item you sell of a certain category, for example, use social media to talk about the cause you're supporting, and consider running a fundraiser event to boost the support even further.
It's a win-win, really, as a worthy cause will get the support and exposure it needs and your business is able to gain a proper boost because of all of its good work.
Next: Make use of videos
Sure, marketing through videos is nothing new – but how much is your business really using it? People love to interact with actual human being and both live streams and general marketing videos are great for this. You need to do it right, though, and make sure that you have someone in front of the camera who knows what they're doing.
You can have a look at this article as well, by the way, for some more tips on how to create videos for social media so that everything you create is both flawless and credible.
Update your website
While your business may be scattered across different platforms online, your official website is like your home – or your basecamp, if you like. It's where the business actually lives and your customers should be referred to it wherever they encounter your business name online.
That's why you need to make sure that it is both up to date, innovate, slightly artistic, and interesting to spend time in. Check out this logo maker, for example, to get it right from the start.
Since everyone is trying to increase their own business exposure at the same time as you, the competition will always be kind of tough. Go even further than them, on the other hand, and you might find that it's not that difficult to beat them, after all.
Smart Optimization: The 7 Most Common SEO Mistakes and How To Avoid Them
Did you know 380 websites are created every minute? That's a staggering statistic that points to the hyper-competitive nature of the internet.
In other words, if you want your customers to find you on search engines like Google, your digital marketing efforts have to be near-perfect. Many marketers create quality sites with great content but are in disbelief when their sites are nowhere to be found on search engine results pages (SERPs)
The reason these sites fail is usually because of search engine optimization (SEO) mistakes that are dogging their sites ability to appear at the top of Google.
What mistakes are these sites making? And what should you be doing with your site to ensure your marketing efforts don't go to waste?
Keep reading to discover the seven most common SEO mistakes you need to avoid now.
1. Not Doing Keyword Analysis
Keyword mistakes are probably the most common SEO mistake so I'll spend the most time on this point.
In their most basic form, search engines are still keyword based. A user enters keywords in the search bar and the search engine finds relevant search engine results based on that keyword.
Most website owners recognize the importance of keywords but don't know how to properly identify and utilize the best keywords for their business. That's understandable because they have businesses to run and not a lot of time to study SEO.
Here's what you need to know:
Choose keywords targeted to your business using popular keyword tools like Ahrefs Keyword Explorer and Moz Keyword Explorer.
These platforms allow you to easily see what keywords your competitors are ranking for to give you a good idea of the keywords your customers are using. You can also perform keyword searches to discover how many searches a keyword receives and how difficult it would be to rank for that keyword.
Don't commit the SEO mistake of creating content around high difficulty keyword phrases. For example, let's say you want to publish an article for the keyword phrase "life insurance." If you notice the top 10 results on Google are all owned by huge companies like State Farm and USAToday, it will be next to impossible to outrank those websites.
That's why it's important to check the "difficulty ranking" you whatever keyword tool you are using.
Another mistake is not using long-tail keywords, which are the low hanging fruit of SEO rankings. Long-tail keywords are longer and more specific keyword phrases. These keyword phrases are usually easier to rank for, and because they are so specific, they usually convert better.
So instead of trying to rank for "life insurance" choose a long-tail keyword like "best life insurance no medical exam no waiting period." According to Ahrefs, the latter keyword receives over 1,200 searches each month with an "Easy" keyword difficulty score.
Perhaps the biggest SEO mistake relating to keywords is to overuse your target keyword in the content. Typically, this means you are writing for a search engine and not a real person. The copy ends up sounding unnatural and forced.
Don't aim to use the keyword a set number of times or a percentage. To avoid Google penalties, only use your target keyword organically.
2. Not Claiming Your Google My Business Listing
Perhaps the most common SEO mistake is not listing your business with Google My Business.
With the growing popularity of "near me" searches, perhaps the biggest search opportunity for small businesses is to claim your business location, list your business hours and answer all the pertinent questions.
Google has appropriately placed emphasis on near me searches, recognizing the trend of consumers searching for nearby businesses. Getting your business to show up for local Google searches and on Google Maps is a quick win so claim your Google My Business listing now.
3. Not Optimizing Page Titles and Meta Descriptions
Search engine users decide if they are going to click on a search result based on the page title and meta description. In the SERPs, the title is the name of the page and the meta description is the snippet underneath the title that gives you a preview of the content on that page.
You want an attention-getting headline for your title and a meta description that accurately describes what the content is about. You want to optimize these components not only to attract more clicks but to attract the right clicks.
If your content doesn't match the page title and meta description, the user will hit the back button. This will hurt your bounce rate and your session duration, two metrics which let Google know if users find your content valuable. Bounce rate measures how often users hit the back button and return to the SERPs, and session duration measures how long a user stays on your site.
4. Ignoring Link Structure
As mentioned in the last item, session duration is an important SEO ranking factor. One of the best ways to increase your session duration time is to make sure your site is easy to navigate for users.
Organize your site categorically using keyword-optimized category names. And make sure your link structure creates pathways for users to find exactly what they want within two or three clicks. This is especially true for your conversion pages.
Also, include links to older articles to spread authority to these pages which may be hidden deep on your site.
5. Not Having Quality Content that Gets Links and Shares
Always remember that Google is in the business of delivering relevant and valuable search results. To that end, the search giant is always on the lookout for signals that indicate relevancy and value.
Two of the biggest indicators Google depends on are social signals and authority signals. The more times people share your content, the stronger social value your site has with Google. The more links your posts receive from other websites, the more Google views your site as an authority domain.
Therefore, your goal is simply to create the most link-worthy, share-worthy content on the internet. How do you do that? By making sure any content you publish is better than all the top search results.
Look at what your competition is creating. What did they leave out? How can you expand upon their content? What personal insight can you add to the conversation? Read the user comments on their posts looking for questions you can answer in your content.
6. Not Mobile Optimizing
In 2018, Google announced they are now "mobile first." That means they are delivering search results based on the mobile friendliness of a website. The more your site is optimized for the mobile experience, the better it will perform in Google's SERPs.
Luckily, Google has a mobile friendliness test you can run on your website. The test will give you some suggestions on how to improve the mobile responsiveness of your site. Pay particular attention to improving the page loading speed on mobile devices as that is the common mobile SEO problem.
7. Not Performing Regular Audits
One of the problems with SEO is, as the saying goes, "you don't know what you don't know." As a result, if our site is underperforming on Google, most of the time we aren't sure why.
That's where SEO audits come in handy. They give us the opportunity to discover and address SEO mistakes that may be hurting our search rankings. Make sure to regularly audit your website's performance from a client's view and the view of a search engine.
Make sure your site doesn't have any broken links and that information is easy to find. Ensure your site loads quickly on desktops and on mobile devices. Review your checkout process and the quality of your content.
Final Thoughts About SEO Mistakes
Finding SEO mistakes on your site should not be discouraging. Think of any problems you find as opportunities to improve your search rankings.
SEO work is never complete. Be consistent in your optimization efforts and evaluate your progress over time. Schedule regular audits, test titles and meta descriptions, and continue to create link-worthy content. Before long, your site will be an unstoppable force on Google and other major search engines.
If you found this article helpful, check out how to get the fastest SEO results in 2019 now.
5 Digital Marketing Advantages In 2019
You're missing out on a major marketing strategy if your digital marketing game is falling short!
Every business needs a strategic plan when it comes to marketing. But is a digital marketing strategy necessary for success?
We wouldn't recommend marketing your business without it.
Recent statistics tell us that 59% of consumers source multiple channels before making contact with a business for the first time. Most of those sources are digital, including email, online advertising, and social media.
What's the big deal when it comes to digital? Here are five digital marketing advantages to consider when developing your marketing plan and budget.
1. Results are Easy to Measure
You've probably heard of click-thrus, conversion rates, and impressions. These marketing metrics are unique to digital marketing–and they're extremely valuable
Wouldn't it be great to know when a potential customer receives your snail-mail piece? You'd also love to know when they open it, if they read it, and what part of the art or copy triggered them to make a purchase in your store.
That kind of tracking isn't possible with traditional marketing strategies. However, with digital marketing, you can track the effectiveness of many critical pieces to your campaign.
From the effectiveness of subject lines, to knowing who opens an email, to tracking which link or text within an email generated an action–digital marketing results are easy to track.
With that kind of data, your marketing team can make strategic decisions about campaigns, audiences, and offers. Tailor upcoming campaigns to audience behavior from prior campaigns.
2. Make Strategic Changes As You Go
With many traditional forms of marketing, you have to wait until the end of the campaign to know how it performed. If something goes wrong, you can't pull back a mailing or print advertising.
One of the best benefits of digital marketing is the ability to make strategic changes mid-campaign.
With real-time results, if a campaign isn't performing well or you need to make adjustments, marketers can edit or cancel a campaign with immediate results.
There's no need for a campaign to be a total loss. Watch your metrics throughout the campaign and make adjustments to ensure success.
3. Create a Personalized User Experience
How personalized does it feel when you receive a "Dear Friend" letter from a company? It's not as inviting as receiving communication addressed to your name with content that relates to you as an individual–not as one in a crowd.
Personalization is available with print campaigns, but it's limited. It also increases your costs for the campaign.
Another reason why digital marketing is so effective is the level of personalization available for your campaigns. Address users by name. Target potential customers by interests and geography.
In most cases, adding personalization to your email or digital add campaign doesn't increase your costs. Agencies like Trevisan recognize the importance of personalization when it comes to your digital marketing strategy.
Instead of blasting the masses with your message, target a smaller audience for a personalized experience and better success.
4. Accessibility to Your Audience
How are you doing? Your customers will tell you.
Some businesses fear online reviews. For the many good reviews out there, there's often that one disgruntled customer who blasts out a terrible review on any available platform.
Your offline and online business reputation is manageable in the face of a bad review or an incident out of your control. But your marketing plan has to include a method to monitor online reviews and plan of action when negative reviews appear.
If you're not actively monitoring your reviews, there are other indicators that your online reputation might be in trouble.
When sales suffer, or you notice a decline in profitability, you could have a reputation issue. While it's easy to become disheartened when negative reviews happen, it's a perfect time for online brand management.
It's not an easy process. But your business has an opportunity to request positive reviews and respond to negative reviews.
Take an active role in the advantages of having access to customers and their feedback.
5. Reach Far and Wide
Most traditional forms of marketing have limits to size and scope.
Whether it's a lack of budget dollars or a physical restriction to a print ad, non-digital advertising has limits. Your digital marketing efforts will reach farther and wider than most traditional marketing campaigns.
When using social media, the only limit to your reach is your strategy and creativity.
Facebook ads are far less expensive than a mailing or print campaign. You get more bang for your buck online when using strategic audience selection tools and carefully crafted ad content.
Plus, when using social media, organic reach and influencers can take your brand further than you could plan it with paid advertising. Users who enjoy your product or service will share your business with others online.
The value of organic reach is almost priceless when it comes to digital advertising.
Your ad spend goes further online. Audiences from around the world can learn about your local business and take advantage of what you have to offer.
Your physical location becomes less of a hindrance to your business with digital advertising as part of your marketing plan.
Digital Marketing Advantages Help Grow Your Business
While it's important to have a multi-channel approach to marketing your business, paper mailings and print ads have limits to their reach. Digital marketing advantages help take your traditional marketing strategies to new audiences.
From digital messaging to choosing the right channels to defining your budget, make sure digital marketing is part of your overall marketing plan.
When planning your digital strategies, it's essential to make sure digital efforts are not an afterthought. If you have limited budget dollars, focus first on digital strategies.
With small budgets, you'll see a bigger impact when focusing your strategies on digital channels.
Set your digital marketing goals within your overall marketing goals. Read more about the importance of creating and reaching digital marketing benchmarks to help grow your business and evaluate your marketing efforts.
7 Advantages of Web Push Notifications for Marketing
A web push notification is a message with some text, logo, image and up to three buttons, that appears on top of a current web-page.
What follows are seven reasons why you should use web push notifications as a marketing channel.
1. Segmentation
Previously, marketers could send browser notifications only to their entire contact list. Because of this, many users received unnecessary and annoying information.
But now advanced providers allow sending personalized web notifications to different segments of the contact list.
With their help, eCommerce brands can send to website users
- relevant and personalized messages
- through all popular browsers
- on mobile and desktop devices.
2. High Delivery Rates
There are only a few reasons why a web push message may not reach users:
- a user has blocked notifications from the website,
- the device was turned off,
- the subscriber didn`t have access to the internet.
But these situations are not too common, that's why the delivery rates of web push notifications range from 50% to 90%. Even if the browser was closed or the device turned off, users could receive a notification the next time they open their browser.
3. Ease of Use
Push notifications are a perfect way to quickly deliver messages and to encourage users to visit the website.
It only takes a few minutes to create a web push notification You just need to briefly formulate the main idea, add an attractive banner and a CTA button.
4. Content Personalization
Automatic substitution of personalized content in the notifications will help you capture the attention of your subscribers much more better than ordinary bulk messages.
For example, call the subscribers by their first names.
However, it is better to use more complex personalization. You can insert an image of the product that the user has abandoned in the cart or the number of the order which he or she has made.
5. Automation
Web push notifications provide a good opportunity for automating regular communications between a user and a brand. You can use them
- as a part of your onboarding campaigns,
- as abandoned cart reminders,
- as transactional notifications.
In fact, with advanced marketing automation services, you can set any event that triggers the automatic sending of a web push notification.
Most often, online businesses use email or SMS as marketing channels. Push notifications don't replace but complement them.
Advanced automation systems allow you to use multiple channels in a single marketing workflow, for instance, an abandoned cart workflow. This significantly increases customer engagement and the chances that the user will take the target action.
6. Branded style
You can design your notifications in the style of your website. Use branded colors and add your logo to the notifications. For example, this is how you can add your logo and a product image in eSputnik.com.
The branded style of the message will attract the attention of your users, and they will be more likely to perform the action you want them to take.
7. Customizable lifespan
Push notifications have an "activity time" that you can set manually. Due to this, you will not annoy your users with outdated information, for example, after the promotion has ended.
Web notifications can be the perfect solution for fast and reliable customer communication. They are delivered as soon as a user opens the browser, even if he or she doesn't visit your website.
Considering all this, segmented web push notifications can become a new powerful channel in your omnichannel marketing strategy.
What Every Entrepreneur Should Learn from these Famous Logos
Coming up with the best possible logo is very important. Many companies have struggled to find a logo that communicates the essence of their brand. If you are looking for inspiration, you need to look at some of the companies that did it right. Of course, you don't want to outright copy of their design approach. However, you can get a sense of the approach that they took and why it worked so well.
Here are some famous logos and the lessons that you can learn from them. You shouldn't have any trouble replicating one of these logos when you need one for your own brand. There are plenty of great logo design tools that can help you out, like this logo maker tool from Designhill for $20. This tool uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to execute the most intricate design algorithms. It can create hundreds of logos in minutes, which makes it easy for you to choose the best ones for your business.
Target has a very simple logo. It is basically just a bull's eye made from two red rings and a white one conjoining them. This is a simplified version of its original logo, which had three bands of each color.
This logo clearly communicates its message for two reasons:
- The logo is an obvious image that conveys the theme of the brand. The company's name is Target and the logo is it target itself. It couldn't be clearer.
- Target uses very few design elements in its logo. New entrepreneurs and graphic designers might think that this is a drawback. However, this is actually one of the reasons it is so effective. People don't want to try to make sense of overly complicated designs. Simplicity is usually best.
Target's logo has gone unchanged for nearly 15 years, because it works so well. Their own research shows that most customers recognize it at a casual glance.
"Target's telltale logo was first revealed in 1962, streamlined in 1968 and has since evolved into one of the most recognized symbols in North America. No, seriously — a 2003 Target study found more than 96 percent of American shoppers know what that bold, red Bullseye represents."
Apple Computer
Apple Computer's logo has evolved significantly over the past 43 years. It has evolved in a way that you wouldn't expect. Instead of becoming more complex, it has actually evolved into simplicity. The 1976 version of the logo was a very complicated drawing of Isaac Newton. One year later, it was a vector-based design of an apple with six different colors. Today, the logo is still an apple with the same contours that the company has used for nearly half a century. However, the logo is completely black. It no longer uses a mixture of different hues and vectors.
Apple realize that its logo was a lot more memorable if people could recognize it at a glance. This worked a lot better using a simpler logo, which is why the Isaac Newton cartoon gave way to a basic picture of an everyday apple.
Google is one of the newer companies on the New York Stock Exchange. However, its logo is already one of the most famous in the world. The company has the most popular website on the planet, so a couple billion people see it every single day. Due to its high visibility, Google couldn't afford to get its logo wrong.
Google is another company that has thrive by using a slick, simple design. Its logo is basically a text version of its name. It has multiple colors. There is one subtle difference that people wouldn't pick up on at first glance. One of the letters is green. It is the only letter that does not have a primary color. This is meant to signify simple differences that make the company unique. Nonetheless, the overall design is very easy to understand, even if the metaphor is lost on most people.
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I'm thrilled to announce that Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex from the fabulous publisher, Seal Press, is officially out on June 1, 2011!
Each chapter is filled with reader stories and questions, with advice from experts. Read the list of experts here, with links to their websites and books.
Take a look at the chapter titles -- and do let me know which chapter(s) you're particularly eager to read:
Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sexby Joan Price
Foreword by Betty Dodson
Chapter 1. The Old Ways Don't Do It Anymore!
Chapter 2. Reviving Desire
Chapter 3. Sex Toys: Now More Than Ever
Chapter 4. Together yet Alone: Is This My Marriage?
Chapter 5. Talking about Sex
Chapter 6. Off the Beaten Path: Nontraditional Sex Practices and Relationships
Chapter 7. Surviving Divorce, Breakup, Betrayal
Chapter 8. Sex with Myself
Chapter 9. Unlearning Our Upbringing: Women's Stories
Chapter 10. Unlearning Our Upbringing: Men's Stories
Chapter 11. When Sex Hurts: Vulvar/Vaginal Pain
Chapter 12. Reclaiming Sexuality After Cancer
Chapter 13. Erectile Dysfunction: What Men Don't Say Out Loud
Chapter 14. Erectile Dysfunction: Women Speak Out
Chapter 15. No Way Back: When Your Partner Has Alzheimer's Disease
Chapter 16. Death, Grieving . . . and Then What?
Chapter 17. Sensuality for Hire
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This report, a first-of-its-kind effort, provides data on state Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) liabilities—the cost in today's dollars of benefits to be paid to current workers and retirees over future years—and funding trends and how they are affected by aspects of state retiree health plans.
All states, with the exception of Idaho, offer newly hired public workers access to certain retiree health care coverage as part of their benefits package.1 Thirty-eight of these states have committed to making contributions toward health care premiums for such coverage. Retiree health coverage for these state government workers stands in sharp contrast to the private sector, where the proportion of firms with 200 or more workers offering health coverage to retirees has plummeted from 66 percent in 1988 to 28 percent in 2013.2 Rising health care costs, changes in accounting standards for reporting the cost of retiree health benefits, competition from overseas firms and small startup companies, and the addition of prescription drug coverage to the Medicare program have contributed to this drop in private sector retiree health benefits. And although facing many of these same circumstances, most states continue to offer health benefits to their retired public workers, in an effort to help attract and retain a talented workforce.3
One of the most significant changes for the states was an adjustment the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) made to accounting standards that requires states to report liabilities for retiree benefits other than pensions—known as other post-employment benefits (OPEB)—in their financial statements. (See "Glossary" box.)4 By December 2008, all state governments were required to implement these changes, and the increased financial transparency that resulted prompted states to take a closer look at OPEB obligations and how to fund and pay for them.5 Retiree health insurance benefits account for the majority of states' OPEB obligations, so many states have implemented policy changes concerning these benefits to address looming OPEB obligations.6 As a result, most states provide varying levels of retiree benefits based on factors such as date of hire, date of retirement, or vesting eligibility. (See Appendices A and D for more information about which groups of retirees were included in this study and why.)
This report, a first-of-its-kind effort, provides data on state OPEB liabilities—the cost in today's dollars of benefits to be paid to current workers and retirees over future years—and funding trends and how they are affected by aspects of state retiree health plans. Researchers collected and analyzed updated OPEB financial data and trends since 2010, as well as 50-state data on the eligibility criteria for retiree health plans. (To convey more clear and consistent trends, we report 50-state OPEB data only since 2010, because many states were adjusting to newly implemented GASB reporting standards in 2008 and 2009.) They found that states' strategies for addressing OPEB liabilities vary greatly and that the methods states choose to contribute to their retirees' health insurance premiums substantially affect the size of their OPEB liabilities.
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The following are key things a health club owner can do to improve on poor staff performance:
1. Improve communication. Lack of communication and follow-up from the boss is the top problem I hear about from health club staff. What would your employees say about you when it comes to communication and follow-up? Do they feel that their voice is heard and their opinions matter?
When I conduct an operational analysis of a facility (typically, a struggling facility), I interview all key people. One of the first things I ask them to do is to describe to me what they do in their job. I then go back to the club owner to ask for that same person's job description. It's rare that I hear the same job description.
2. Review your expectations. What do you expect of your employees? Are your employees clear about what is expected of them? When doing health club turnarounds, we often see that the health club owner has a specific expectation but has failed to properly communicate it to the front line. How do you know if you communicated your expectations clearly? It's never as simple as just saying it. You have to train your staff properly, and you must follow up with more training.
When evaluating staff expectations, ask yourself this question: Am I setting them up for success or failure? High expectations should not be a distant goal held over their heads, but instead a belief in their ability to get the job done.
Don't fall into the trap of focusing on the trivial details at the expense of what really matters in your health club. Get into the habit of celebrating achievements when staff meets goals.
3. Re-evaluate your health club systems. The key to a successful health club is installing proven systems that make it near impossible for your staff to fail. Does your health club system meet this criteria? Over time, it's easy to start cutting corners or missing steps in the process.
Don't let the natural skills and abilities of top performers convince you that proven systems aren't important. The idea is to manage the system. Perfect this, idea and you can have new employees producing much quicker and for much longer.
4. Review your compensation plan. Do you reward outstanding performance in your health club so that the best producers get the most benefit? Are you offering daily, weekly and monthly contests and bonus opportunities to entice better performance? Do front desk and administrative staff get to participate in bonus and incentive opportunities?
When it comes to compensation, many health club owners look at their employees as an expense, and they are always looking for ways to cut expenses, right? Given that your staff is really your most valuable asset, you would be well advised to treat them like any valuable asset.
5. Do you trust your health club staff? When we get involved in a health club turnaround, ownership and management often do some finger-pointing about staff (and vice versa). Here's the truth: If you want staff to trust you, you better trust them. If you can't do this, it's time to find new staff. The best way to establish trust is to be consistent in your behavior and staff training.
Of course, some genuine issues may be causing problems. You must continue to work through them, but don't allow this to get you off course and cause you to adjust the system or lower production standards.
Never give a poor producer in your health club preferential treatment. If you do, you're giving permission for everyone else in your health club to act this way.
Now, let's start performing.
Jim Thomas is the founder and president of Fitness Management USA Inc., a management consulting and turnaround firm specializing in the fitness and health club industry. With more than 25 years of experience owning, operating and managing clubs of all sizes, Thomas lectures and delivers seminars and workshops on the practical skills required to successfully build teamwork and market fitness programs and products.
We recently took on a new health club client, and his first words to me were, "These people aren't getting the job done, and I want you to train them." I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes: "Sometimes, the followers aren't following because the leaders aren't leading." If it was as simple as saying "go do it," there would be no need for management. Of course, the key job of health club management is to create an atmosphere that allows a motivated person to act.


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Building capacity in NSEE is the driving mission for the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NCLT). Robert Chang, the Director of NCLT, will discuss the urgency of improving science education in this country and present how NCLT is granted the opportunity to serve and help fulfill this mission. Chang will explain how the Center is working to build capacity in NSEE; providing examples and programs of NCLT that aim to enhance STEM education in this country. The NCLT is building a network of collaborations with others in NSEE and plans to expand this network in the coming years, both nationally and internationally.
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The Java Tutorials have been written for JDK 8. Examples and practices described in this page don't take advantage of improvements introduced in later releases.
This lesson tells you how to change the look and feel of your Swing application. The "look" of an application refers to its appearance. The "feel" refers to how the widgets behave. You can choose to use the default Swing look and feel (e.g. the Ocean theme for the Metal look and feel), or the look and feel of the native platform (e.g. Windows, GTK+), or you can customize your own look and feel.
Basic information on setting the look and feel to one of the available look and feels. Information on setting the look and feel programmatically, and at the command line, is provided.
Information on how to customize your look and feel using the Synth package is provided.
Information on how to customize your look and feel using the Nimbus package, introduced in the JDK 7 release, is provided.
If you are interested in using JavaFX to create your GUI, see Skinning JavaFX Applications with CSS and Using JavaFX Charts.


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Jay-Z and Beyoncé have announced they'll hit the road together this summer and fall for a stadium tour.
Fans had speculated that the couple was planning a joint tour after a listing was posted on Ticketmaster and on Beyoncé's Facebook page last Tuesday.
After rumours swirled over the past week, the couple revealed the tour news through a video that was posted to Beyoncé's Instagram.
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The hip-hop super couple will kick off their "On the Run II" tour June 6 in Cardiff, Wales. The tour will hit 15 cities across the United Kingdom and Europe, and 21 cities in North America, including Boston, Detroit, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Miami.
Vancouver, B.C., is the only Canadian stop on the couple's second joint tour.
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The tour is a reprise of the couple's joint 2014 six-week "On the Run" tour across North America, and two dates in Paris, which were filmed for an HBO special. This time, the tour will end Oct. 2 in Vancouver.
Tickets go on sale to the general public starting March 19.
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: Live Nation, Beyoncé 's official website or Roc Nation.
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See the North American tour dates below.
July 25 — Cleveland, OH — FirstEnergy Stadium
July 28 — Washington, DC — FedEx Field
July 30 — Philadelphia, PA — Lincoln Financial Field
Aug. 02 — E. Rutherford, NJ — MetLife Stadium
Aug. 05 — Boston, MA — Gillette Stadium
Aug. 08 — Minneapolis, MN — US Bank Stadium
Aug. 10 — Chicago, IL — Soldier Field
Aug. 13 — Detroit, MI — Ford Field
Aug. 18 — Buffalo, NY — New Era Field
Aug. 23 — Nashville, TN — Vanderbilt Stadium
Aug. 25 — Atlanta, GA — Mercedes Benz Stadium
Aug. 29 — Orlando, FL — Camping World Stadium
Aug. 31 — Miami, FL — Hard Rock Stadium
Sept. 11 — Arlington, TX — AT&T Stadium
Sept. 13 — New Orleans, LA — Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Sept. 15 — Houston, TX — NRG Stadium
Sept. 19 — Phoenix, AZ — University of Phoenix Stadium
Sept. 22 — Los Angeles, CA — Rose Bowl
Sept. 27 — San Diego, CA — SDCCU Stadium
Sept. 29 — Santa Clara, CA — Levi's Stadium
Oct. 02 — Vancouver, BC — BC Place
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FDA Approves Nevirapine XR
March/April 2011
On 25 March 2011, the FDA approved an extended release formulation of nevirapine XR (Viramune-XR) 400 mg extended release tablet.
The approval is based on one principal clinical trial (1100.1486) that demonstrated prolonged suppression of HIV-1 RNA through 48-weeks, and a supportive trial (1100.1526).
Based on serious and life-threatening hepatotoxicity observed in controlled and uncontrolled studies, nevirapine should not be initiated in adult females with CD4+ cell counts greater than 250 cells/mm3 or in adult males with CD4+ cell counts greater than 400 cells/mm3 unless the benefit outweighs the risk
The 14-day lead-in period with immediate-release nevirapine 200 mg daily dosing must be strictly followed; it has been demonstrated to reduce the frequency of rash.
If rash persists beyond the 14-day lead-in period with immediate-release nevirapine, do not begin dosing with nevirapine XR. The lead-in dosing with 200 mg once-daily should not be continued beyond 28 days, at which point an alternative regimen should be sought.
Filing in Europe for nevirapine XR has already taken place with a decision from the EMA expected in the third quarter of 2011.
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When a Korean friend promised to take me to a restaurant with "original" Korean food, I hardly knew what to expect. Original in his vocabulary did not mean novel or creative but pure, untouched, unblemished--Korean food that had not been adjusted to American tastes. We wound up at Shin Mi in Koreatown consuming enormous meals of meat, seafood and vegetables in forms that I had not seen before.Korean cuisine has evolved through centuries of social and political change. Originating from ancient agricultural and nomadic traditions in the Korean peninsula and southern Manchuria, Korean cuisine has evolved through a complex interaction of the natural environment and different cultural trends.
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Beverly Soon Tofu Restaurant
Genwa Beverly Hills
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It's even more surprising when you consider that Korean food, unlike some of the more arcane cuisines we've recently embraced, does not contain ingredients that most Americans would consider strange. In the past 10 years, we have managed to overcome our suspicions about uncooked fish and have put a sushi bar on every street corner. Our enthusiasm for Thai cooking is so strong that we've overlooked our national aversion to sauces made from fermented fish. Indian pickles, Jamaican curries and Persian pilafs no longer seem exotic. Yet easy-to-love Korean cuisine, based on beef and grilled on the barbecue, is almost unknown in mainstream America.