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Chocolate Chimichangas
From midgelet 7 years agoIngredients
- 6 (1 5/8 ounce) milk chocolate candy bars shopping list
- 6 (10 inch) burrito-size flour tortillas shopping list
- vegetable oil shopping list
- raspberry sauce shopping list
- vanilla ice cream shopping list
- Garnishes shopping list
- chocolate shavings, mint sprigs shopping list
- For Rasberry Sauce shopping list
- 1 (10 ounce) package frozen raspberries, thawed shopping list
- 1/2 cup sugar shopping list
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice shopping list
- 1 tablespoon orange liqueur (optional) shopping list
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch shopping list
How to make it
- For Chimichangas:
- Place 1 candy bar just below center of 1 tortilla.
- Fold bottom of tortilla up and over candy bar just until partially covered.
- Fold left and right sides of tortilla over; roll up, and place, seam side down, on a baking sheet.
- Repeat procedure with remaining candy bars and tortillas.
- Freeze 20 minutes.
- Pour oil to depth of 1 inch into a large skillet; heat to 375°.
- Place 2 tortillas, seam sides down, in hot oil, gently pressing with tongs for a few seconds to seal.
- Fry tortillas 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
- Repeat procedure with remaining tortillas.
- Drain on paper towels.
- Serve with Raspberry Sauce and vanilla ice cream.
- Garnish, if desired.
- For Rasberry Sauce: Combine first 3 ingredients and, if desired, orange liqueur, in a large saucepan.
- Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes or just until raspberry mixture starts to thicken.
- Remove from heat, and let cool completely.
- Press raspberry mixture through a wire-mesh strainer into a small saucepan, using the back of a spoon to squeeze out juice.
- Discard pulp and seeds.
- Whisk in 1 teaspoons cornstarch.
- Bring to a boil, and cook 1 to 2 minutes or until thickened.
- Store in refrigerator up to 3 days
- Makes 1 cup.
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Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and GlobeNet, a wholesale provider of Latin and North America data network services, announced the deployment of the Infinera DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform across its North America routes in the northeast and south Florida, with further connectivity to Latin America over its award-winning subsea network. The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network, featuring the DTN-X platform, enables GlobeNet to differentiate its services and increase network efficiency as it scales network capacity. GlobeNet operates more than 23,500 kilometers of fiber optic subsea cable, linking the Americas with cutting-edge technology and services. As a carriers carrier, GlobeNet provides a wide range of high-performance, high-capacity, low-latency services, and has proven its expertise in each of its markets in Latin America and throughout North America. 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- n. Plural form of wit.
- n. senses.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
Sorry, no etymologies found.
We have been called so _of many_; not that our heads are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald, _but that our wits are so diversely coloured_: and truly I think, if ALL _our wits_ were to issue out of ONE skull, they would fly east, west, north, south; and _their consent_ of _one direct_ way should be at once to ALL the points o'the compass.
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The fact was that a higher kind of humour was required, and accordingly we now, for the first time, hear of "wits" -- men of good birth and position, who prided themselves on their talent.
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Your company's got great customer service and a stellar social media presence. But have you ever thought about marrying the two?
In this episode of The Digital Exec, we sit down with Abram Herman from Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals to discuss the concept of delivering great customer service on social media.
If you're feeling stuck in your social media efforts, this episode is for you. We cover topics ranging from hiding behind your social media to responding privately to messages and more. Learn what makes organizations successful on social media and how to implement an outstanding customer service culture. If you want to know how to keep your customers happy by delivering great customer experiences online, you'll want to listen!
Michael: Okay, we are live. Michael Reynolds here with SpinWeb with Digital Exec #7. I'm here with Abram Herman. Abram, how are you today?
Abram: I'm good. How are you doing, Michael?
Michael: Excellent. Glad to have you. Abram is the Social Media and Marketing Coordinator for Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals or ABMP for short, and I'm now going to say ABMP because it would take forever to say the rest.
Abram: That's much easier.
Michael: ABMP is, if I'm correct, the largest membership organization for massage therapists with over 80,000 members, correct?
Abram: Yes, by far we are the largest.with over 80,000 and then we also have sister divisions that work with aestheticians and cosmetologists. And we're also the largest association in those fields as well.
Michael: That's great. So the reason I want to talk to you today is because you do a phenomenal job of delivering customer service on social media. Our topic today is How to Deliver Great Customer Service on Social Media.
You come at this from an association perspective, so a lot of our nonprofits and associations listening will really benefit from this, because who today is not interested in providing great customer service in general and especially on social media because everyone is there? A lot of people are talking about it and are trying to figure out how to deliver that effectively. So, how to really do that? And, by the way, how long have you been with ABMP?
Abram: That's a good question. It'll be four years in April of 2014.
Michael: And you're in Colorado, correct?
Abram: Yes, Colorado. Right up in the mountains.
Michael: I often see your exploits of you mountain climbing in the beautiful mountains of Colorado and I get jealous. I'm like, "Oh, why aren't I in Colorado right now?"
Just to kind of kick things off, what makes you so great at delivering customer service on social media?
Abram: One of the things is an element of experience. You know I've had a lot of customer service oriented roles, so even though my role now is more in marketing, there is a huge component of customer service in social media even though it does serve a marketing purpose for most organizations and especially for associations. One is just experience and knowing how to deal with people.
I try to remember when I'm dealing with social media, you're dealing with huge numbers of people. If I put out a post, it might be seen by 25,000 or 30,000 people. But in a customer service perspective, I think you can tend to lose sight of the fact that those 25,000 people are humans.
Michael: Right.
Abram: Just like we have the vitriolic trolls in comment sections that, for the same reason, Popular Science just closed their comment section, it can be easy to feel really removed when you're using technology. So one of the things I always try and remember is, whoever I'm dealing with, even if they're angry at us and even if we're trying to smooth things over, there's somebody with legitimate concerns.
I have to remind myself that the person I'm dealing with is somebody who wants to be related to personally. That's really the ultimate benefit of social media is it gets you that chance to have a personal level of connection rather than just email blasts and a website and things that are for everybody. This is something that meets people where they're at. It gives you a chance to show the personality of your people and of your company as a whole. I try and never remove the human component from it.
I always keep in mind that old kind of marketing saying that people want to do business with other people; they don't want to do business with a company.
I try to be genuine. I always sign my name in my correspondence so they know that there's a human on the other end. I just try to remember that there's really people on the other end and it's not just a random Internet interaction.
Michael: I think you've really hit on one of the primary points of this concept. I see a lot of brands, a lot of companies, a lot of organizations -- for profit and nonprofit alike -- that hide behind their social media. If someone asks a question on Facebook, for example, they respond in this very, kind of surface marketing speak or this kind of legal speak and they just kind of spout a policy out. They don't sign a name. They don't really know who they're talking to. It's very impersonal. Even on social media, they somehow manage to make it seem very impersonal. That can be frustrating for people. So it's really nice to hear that you really empathize the personal aspect of it and you identify yourself by name. You say, "Hey, there's a real person here," so that really makes a big difference, I think.
Abram: And along the lines of what you're saying, it also speaks to a bigger element of your business. One of the huge benefits of social media is the transparency and the ability to show what's going on behind the scenes and why you're making the decisions you are. For somebody in my position, I work for a fantastic company and we honestly have nothing to hide, so as a social media, PR, and marketing person, it makes my job fairly easy.
We're not Goldman Sachs or some company that people just don't like. We're made up of really great employees and I'm seeing a lot of amazing things that the company has done behind the scenes that we don't necessarily publicize so it makes it very easy. I think maybe that's something to think about in social media is, if you feel like you have to hide things and if you feel like you shouldn't have transparency, maybe that says something on a bigger level about how the business should be run rather than how your communication avenues should be run.
Michael: I forgot who said it, but one of the marketing experts I follow said something to the effect of social media doesn't change your marketing, but basically amplifies who you already are as a company. So if you're already a great company and have great people, social media will amplify that. If you have problems, social media will also amplify that so I think that's very relevant.
So what kind of questions do you typically get on social media? I know you're very active in the LinkedIn groups and you're very active on Facebook and on Twitter; those are kind of the primary mediums I see ABMP responding in. What kind of questions do you typically get and how do you handle them?
Abram: In our business, we get every question you can think of and then some. Because we are the largest organization in the profession, not only are our members looking to us to get information and to help them find the things that they need, but even legislators and government officials and that kind of thing look to us standard setting because we know how the profession works and we know how to do things properly.
Our questions literally run the gambit from I can't figure out how to use this member benefit to I want to know metrics for the profession or I have a legal insurance question or even some off the wall questions. I had a random guy from a Saudi Arabian company message us on Facebook the other day asking for a diagnosis of his skin condition so it can be just about anything.
Michael: Well that's a good segway into what's on my mind next. How do you know when to answer something publicly versus take it offline?
Abram: Generally, I try and do almost everything publicly unless there's actually a privacy concern for the person on the other end. If we're exchanging their member ID number of if they want to give me a credit care to pay for something, obviously we're not going to do that publicly.
Again, it goes back to kind of the zeitgeist to your company. We don't have anything to hide so I think it's only a benefit to us to deal with people publicly and to respond to their questions publicly because not only can other people see the justification behind what we're doing, but they can also see we're responsive to people. You don't want to leave an answer hanging out in the public realm and answer it privately and then everybody who sees it publicly thinks that it never got responded to.
I keep almost everything public unless there's really a reason -- if there is some proprietary information or some confidential information on the member's part -- that's the only time I would really take it out of the public.
Michael: I really love that because I often see the organizations like banks or financial organizations that have people Tweet them questions and all they ever do is say, "Call Customer Service" and give the number. Or they say, "Message me offline" or "email me." Well, no, you're on Twitter so answer me on Twitter.
Abram: Exactly. That's really an annoying thing to do to somebody. If they're talking to you on one channel, that's the channel they want to talk to you on and you don't get to; if somebody Tweets you, you don't say send me a 400-page letter on the subject, so why put them in any other channel?
Michael: I appreciate that about your method, so that's good to see. What tools, if any, do you use to monitor? Do you have any special software that helps you really monitor what's going on with your members or with the public, in general, and helps you respond better?
Abram: I have hundreds of Google alerts set up, both for the company name and the industry that we're in, for all three associations that we work with. Beyond that, HootSuite is the main one that I use for Twitter. I don't find a lot of use for it for things like Facebook or the other networks. I really use it exclusively for Twitter. Other than that, just basically being in there everyday, at least once a day I open up my bookmarks folder that has my daily social media tasks. Essentially, I'll go into LinkedIn to see what's going on there and go into Facebook to see what's going on there. I don't want to miss anything so I use the native applications for most of all Facebook and LinkedIn, and for Twitter I just use HootSuite exclusively.
Michael: So really it comes down to paying attention. All the fancy tools in the world won't necessarily fix the problem of just not paying attention. I see a lot of people that talk to me and say well, I'm not really on Facebook or I'm not really on Twitter and I don't really want to be there. That really tells me they don't really enjoy the medium; they don't get the medium.
Do you feel like you have to really enjoy the medium and enjoy that type of communication to be really good at customer service on social media or do you feel like that can be turned into a process despite a lack of interest in it?
Abram: I guess you could conceivably turn it into a process, but you're not going to have the same results. I think in the customer service sense, you have to have a passion for what you're doing the way that you're doing it, but beyond that, just to stay up to date in the social world, I have to be interested in what's the latest Facebook change, what's the latest Twitter update, or what's the latest change in the Instagram app? It's not optional; it's not like when I feel like it I'll use these features. I have to be interested and passionate, and I'm interested in what these social networks can lead to.
It's an incredible thing from just a human perspective of what's happening with these social networks and the vast amounts of data and the kind of connections they enable. Even like us talking on a Google hangout, I think originally I friended you on Facebook because of some business deal we had elsewhere.
The connection to me is fascinating, the science behind what they're doing is fascinating, and the technology is absolutely fascinating; they're setting precedents for how to handle big data and how to connect people and that kind of thing. You have to be really interested in it just to stay up to date on what's going on and how the platforms are evolving and how to make use of them.
Again, to what you said, just to be happy and passionate about what you do comes through in your customer service. I enjoy Twitter and if there's somebody who doesn't see the value in Twitter or who thinks that it's just some place that people go to post the latest meal that they had, you're not going to come across as somebody who is warm and friendly and happy to be engaging with somebody on the Twitter medium.
It definitely is essential, although you conceivably could parcel it out to some set of robotic instructions, but that's not what customer service is.
Michael: And you have to like people. I know a lot of customer service reps that I encounter don't seem like they like people at all. I'm on the phone with them and they just don't want to be there, they don't want to be helping anybody, they'd rather be anywhere else but talking to just a person. I wonder how these people get hired. I mean you really have to like people to be good at customer service whether it's on the phone or on social media. So the same rules apply everywhere I think.
Abram: Yes, you have to like people and even beyond that, you have to like helping people, not just like being around them. People are going to be coming to you with problems all the time and you can either see it as, "Oh God, I have another complaint" or "I have another thing that's wrong," or you can see it as, "Hey, there's a person who I can totally turn around and I can give them a fantastic experience," and turn them from somebody who is complaining into kind of a grand ambassador or somebody who loves us.
I think seeing them as opportunities and loving that process of helping people; I mean, in our business especially, we're kind of helping people pursue their dreams. These are all independent practitioners who got into a profession that they love and created a business for themselves. If they're asking you how to use a resources, it's not just it's a tool it'd be nice to have, it's like they're trying to fulfill their livelihood.
You really do need to keep, like I said in the beginning, keep that human element and remember the people behind who you're actually talking to; all the humans that are on the other side.
Michael: What benefit has this brought to ABMP? You're very successful in being the largest association for massage therapists and others. Obviously, a lot of success has come from, I'm assuming, just as many other sources, but what sorts of benefits do you find from being this customer service oriented on social media for the company?
Abram: There's of course the direct ones, kind of a direct ROI, but the holy grail of social media and marketing in general of turning it into sales and gaining new members is part of it. So it's a great evangelist in that sense that if we come up with good content or if we're a good source for industry news, people find out about us and, of course, that's a good thing.
Even beyond that, I think going back to what I said of changing people's minds and turning it into a healthy relationship because you're always going to have naysayers whatever your business is and, social media, because it's so transparent and so personal, it gives you a chance to have that personal connection with somebody. It's much harder to yell at a person than it is to yell at a business. Beyond that, if you have a person who finds the solution to your problem, somebody is going to remember that. They are going to remember the personal time that was taken.
I think that over the last -- I started with the company almost four years ago -- but social media has been maybe for the last 2 to 2-1/2 years and in that time, I've made tons of connections and it's a lot of people who really weren't connected to ABMP and now they're our biggest supporters. They're the people who are sharing when we have a new comment in there and the people who are telling their friends, "Look, there's all this new stuff that these guys are doing, why don't you check them out?"
Word of mouth is a huge thing and social media is just a huge way to amplify that instead of telling somebody one on one, face to face, this is a chance for your biggest supporters to tell 500 of their friends or a thousand of their friends at once about why they love your company. In that sense, I think the biggest benefit I see beyond just the direct ROI and sales, the thing that marketers look at is creating that relationship with so many individuals; creating a real personal relationship with our members. We have 80,000 of them, but they're still these people I connect with on a daily basis. We Tweet back and forth, we Facebook message, I read their blogs that they share on the company page every once in a while; those personal relationships are huge for any business, no matter how big you are.
Michael: I'm glad you mentioned the blog as well because the one thing I find remarkable about ABMP is that your company President personally blogs on your website. It's very personal, very conversational, very engaging, and there's the company President of an 80,000 member organization posting on the company blog. I love that. I think that's beautiful.
Abram: That's just how we operate. Les is an awesome guy; he's hilarious. He may be the President and he may be the boss, but everybody here loves him because he's just a funny character and he's a great guy. Having somebody like that as the public face of your company is awesome, but that's ingrained in our culture too. One thing that a lot of people might not know is that we make these kind of retention phone calls, so if a member expires, we call them up and we say, "Hey, we wanted to make sure you knew that your membership expired and if you're interested in renewing for another year and staying with us." That's something that everybody in the company does.
We have Les, the President, and Bob, the CEO, who basically run the company, but you're just as likely to be called by the CEO of the company as you are by anybody in the membership department or me or anybody else. And if you call and the phones are ringing off the hook, we have what's called like a primary overring where if there's not enough people in membership to pick up the phone, it rings throughout the office and Les will pick those up or Bob will pick those up.
That's just part of the company culture. They're not sitting in some gilded office with gold on the walls and diamonds in the ceiling. If a member calls and there's nobody else to pick up the phone, the CEO is going to pick up the phone because that's a member. So it's a pretty cool atmosphere in that way.
Michael: I love that. One more question because I know a lot of people listening are probably wondering: I would love to take this next step and to bring my company or my organization online to a customer service mindset on social media and really be great at it and really engage with members, customers, or prospects there. Do they go out and hire an Abram? Do they have to hire in-house? Can they do a hybrid approach working with other companies? Do they have to do a cultural shift and training inside the company? What is the next step in getting there to get to the point where they can be in the same place as you and ABMP?
Abram: I think there's a lot of different roads you can take to that same destination. On the one side, you can have somebody like me who is passionate about customer service and passionate about the medium, and willing to do that, but it can also be learned. I think the biggest over-arching, you know, broadest statement I can make on the subject is that I think there's a tendency for social medial to be an afterthought for a lot of companies. It's like, "We need a Facebook account. Give it to the intern and he can run it." Yeah, that's not at all the way to do it. You wouldn't put your intern up on a podium in front of 5,000 people giving a speech about your company so why would you do the same with social media when it might be 100,000 people or a million people, depending on your business?
I think the first thing is really take it seriously. It's not an afterthought and it's not a chore, it's a huge opportunity and treat it accordingly. Put your best people on it or find somebody who is going to be effective at it and don't just brush it aside and say, "We'll do this when we have time" or "We'll give it to this guy because he has more room on his plate." Really focus on it and consider it a primary objective rather than just an afterthought would be my biggest advice.
Michael: Well, Abram, you're very good at your job and I really enjoy watching the service you provide to your members online on Facebook, on LinkedIn, on Twitter, on other networks. You do an awesome job and this has been extremely insightful. I appreciate it.
Abram: Thank you. I appreciate it.
Michael: Let's end with a shout out to ABMP. Tell me what makes ABMP great. What would our viewers and listeners love to know about ABMP?
Abram: Oh, there are so many things. I mean, the easiest way to say it is there's a really good reason that we're by far the largest association in the U.S. and our members know it. If you're not a member, you need to find out because beyond just the liability insurance, which is a huge part of what we do and why we have members, the resources that we offer and the customer service has always been a huge focus. Like I said, the CEO might pick up the phone when you call.
It's so hard to pin it down to one thing because overall it's just a great company. I don't say that because I'm in a sense a PR person or because I'm a face for the organization, it's because I love that the organization makes my job so easy because we really are doing great things.That's the only way I can put it. I can't pin it down to one thing, but overall it's just a fantastic company and I know that from the inside.
Michael: Well, our viewers and listeners can find ABMP online at ABMP.com and there is, of course, links to other social properties from there so definitely everyone check them out and follow online. You could learn a lot by following Abram at ABMP. And we appreciate your time. It's been awesome.
Abram: Thank you Michael.
Michael: I want to thank everyone for joining and thanks Abram. Have a great day. We'll see you next time.
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Red List Category & Criteria: | Data Deficient ver 3.1 |
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Justification: An epiphytic aroid endemic to Ecuador, where it is known only from the type, collected on the banks of the Cachabí river, between Imbabura and Esmeraldas provinces, in 1904. May occur in the Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi-Cayapas. If it weren't for its problematic taxonomy, A. gaffurii would be classified in a high threat category. Currently Data Deficient until its taxonomy is clarified. No specimens of this species are housed in Ecuadorian museums. Habitat destruction is the only known threat to the species. |
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Conservation Actions: | May occur in the Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi-Cayapas. |
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ah yes, fond memories of this film - watching it with the sweet young psychopath who wrecked my marriage, believe it or not, right after getting my first tattoo (and watching American Beauty with the wife the day before) -- I also resonated with Tom Selleck's drinking --the quickness with which he whips the vodka out in the morning, takes a slug and puts it back all in the time it takes his wife to walk out of the room for five seconds. I USED TO DO THAT WITH MY MOM, when she left the room - BAM I'd hit that bottle, tuned in to every creak of her censorious movements.
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It's been a while since I've seen this movie--I've actually seen it quite a few times thanks to TNT showing it on heavy rotation years ago. As I recall the sequels were pretty poor imitations of the original as you mentioned. I consider this movie to be part of Drew Barrymore's "wild child Lolita" phase which included movies like Doppelganger, Guncrazy and Bad Girls. Kind of interesting to consider the fact that she started out as a child star who ended up in rehab, then starred in a string of genre b-movies before working her way up to the A-list starring in mostly rom-coms. Although at this point in her career I can't see Drew playing a femme fatale type since she's changed her public persona so much that I tend to associate her with more lighthearted fare.
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Case Study: When the Chips Were Down, Marketing Got Automated 73
5 Campaign Media Selection 75
B-to-B Lead Generation Media: The Top Five 77
Set the Stage for Lead Generation with PR 84
B-to-B Lead Generation Media: Three to Avoid 86
Using Web 2.0 for Lead Generation 88
How to Select the Right Media Mix 92
Mixing It Up: Multiple Media 93
6 Campaign Execution 101
Campaign Target Selection: Finding the Winning Combination 102
Seven Steps to Successful Lead-Generation Creative 106
How to Develop Offers They Can't Refuse 110
Getting the Best Work from an Agency or Creative Freelancers 118
7 Response Planning and Management 123
Response Management Step-by-Step 124
Six Strategies to Capture the Response Data You Need 124
The All-Important Landing Page 126
Why Responses Are Often Mishandled 131
Inquiry Fulfillment: The Beginning of a Beautiful Relationship 132
Six Rules of Fulfillment 134
8 Lead Qualification 139
Setting Qualification Criteria: Can't Beat BANT 140
What to Ask and When to Ask It 141
Need for Speed: Moving Qualified Leads into the Pipeline 142
Lead-Ranking Strategies 145
Qualifying Leads at a Trade Show or Event 150
Marketing Checkup for Telephone-Based Lead Generation and Qualification 151
The Whos and Hows of the Handoff 153
9 Lead Nurturing 157
A Marketing Function with a Big Sales Benefit 158
The Lead-Nurturing Process, Step by Step 159
Nurturing Best Practices 161
Case Study: How a Comprehensive Rethinking of Lead Generation and Management Strategy Improved Lead-Nurturing Response Rates and Lowered Costs 167
10 Metrics and Tracking 175
Response Rate 176
Cost Per Lead 179
Inquiry-to-Lead Conversion Rate 181
Lead-to-Sales Conversion Rates 182
Expense-to-Revenue Ratio (E:R) 183
Seven Techniques for Tracking Leads to Closure 185
When a Lead Doesn't Close 190
11 The Fast-Evolving Future of Lead Generation 191
1. More and Better Marketing Automation 192
2. Sales and Marketing Will Finally Get on the Same Page 192
3. New Data Sources for Prospecting 193
4. Social Media Will Get Real for Lead Generation 193
5. Affinity Marketing Will Come to B-to-B 194
6. Face-to-Face Events Will Resume Their Importance 194
7. New Ways to Nurture 195
8. Ever-Evolving Customer Behavior 196
9. More and Better Video 196
10. Mobile Will Happen 197
Index 199


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During the ceremony, the awards of the Confederation of Polish Employers – "the Confederate of the 20th Anniversary Awards" and "the Confederate Awards 2009" were presented. The prizes are awarded to the individuals who contribute to the development of the oldest and largest organization of employers in Poland, and to the integration of its members and the popularization of its statutory activity.
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FULLERTON No. 14 UCLA rolled to a runaway first-round victory Thursday in the Wooden Legacy, blasting Portland, 99-77, at Cal State Fullerton.
Star freshman Lonzo Ball scored 18 points and had 11 assists for the Bruins. He sat out the final 8:15.
The Bruins (5-0) play Nebraska (4-0), which held on to defeat Dayton, 80-78, in the second round tonight at 9 in Titan Gym. The Wooden Legacy's championship game is Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at the Honda Center.
"We play a Big Ten team, an unbeaten team, tomorrow and it's the best team we've played and our biggest test all year," UCLA coach Steve Alford said. "Lonzo and TJ (Leaf) are learning as they go and they've doing a great job. "I think he (Ball) had a little slow start tonight, particularly defensively, but these guys feed off him, these guys trust him. When he gets rolling, he gets the team rolling."
UCLA, primarily thanks to Ball's passing, had six players score in double figures. Thomas Welch and Isaac Hamilton had 16 each, Leaf and Aaron Holiday 14 each and Bryce Alford 13.
Ball, who made 6 of 9 field-goal attempts, including 4 of-7 3 pointers, was 2 of 3 at the foul line and had four rebounds and two steals.
Welch, the 7-foot junior center from Redondo Beach and L.A. Loyola High, knocked down open medium range jumpers, making 8 of 10, en route to his season high. He also had a game-high 10 rebounds. The 6-foot-10 Leaf, a freshman from El Cajon, made 6 of 9 field-goal attempts, including one 3-pointer and added nine rebounds.
Portland (3-1) held one-possession leads on four occasions in the first half, the last time at 27-26, but the Bruins pulled away with an 11-5 spurt in the final four minutes for a 45-37 advantage at intermission.
Ball's 3-pointer from the corner gave UCLA a 43-35 lead, its largest of the half.
UCLA opened the second half with a 17-4 run to take a 62-41 lead with 16 minutes to play.
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ROCHESTER — A Massachusetts resident is scheduled to appear in Superior Court Monday morning after being indicted in October of 2011 on charges of dispensing a controlled drug, death resulting.
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LANGLEY, British Columbia – A mom was so heartbroken after her son was denied an invitation to a classmate's birthday party that she took to Facebook to vent her frustrations.
Jennifer Kiss-Engle's son, Sawyer, was the only child in his class of 23 students who did not get an invite to a recent birthday party. Sawyer has Down syndrome. Kiss-Engle believes Sawyer was left out of the festivities because of his disability.
"I know it's not because your child and him don't get along, he's brought up your child's name on several occasions. The only reason why you decided it was OK to not invite my son to your child's birthday party is because he has Down Syndrome," Kiss-Engle wrote on Facebook.
She explained that she isn't mad at the other parent, but hopes the post inspires the parent and her child to get to know Sawyer a little better.
In an update to the original post, Kiss-Engle explained that the other child's mother spoke with her child about Down syndrome. The classmate then made a special birthday invitation for Sawyer, hoping he would join the celebration.
"Of course [Sawyer has] been beaming ever since and can't stop talking about it," wrote Kiss-Engle.
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An open letter to the parent that thought it was OK to invite the entire class to their child's birthday except for my son….sharing this because I think it's a valuable lesson for all and I'm trying to educate & advocate more. ❤
Hi there,
I know we don't know each other well but my son Sawyer and your child are in the same class. I understand that your child recently delivered birthday invitations to the entire class except to Sawyer, who was not invited. I also understand that this was not an oversight on your part, that it was an intentional decision to not to include my son.
I want you to know that we don't have an expectation of being invited to every birthday party. In fact, when Sawyer celebrated his birthday last year we only invited a few close friends as we wanted to keep it small, since it was over the Christmas break. But in your case, this is not the same reason. In fact, you have invited all 22 other children from the class except for my son. I know it's not because he's mean, you couldn't meet a happier child. I know it's not because he's not fun, he has a great sense of humour and an infectious laugh. I know it's not because your child and him don't get along, he's brought up your child's name on several occasions. The only reason why you decided it was OK to not invite my son to your child's birthday party is because he has Down Syndrome.
I am sorry that you are not informed, maybe scared, or uncertain about what it means to have Down Syndrome. I know if you knew more about Down Syndrome you wouldn't have made this decision. I am not mad at you. Rather, I think this is an opportunity for you to get to know my son better. You see, having Down Syndrome doesn't mean that you don't want to have friends. It doesn't mean that you don't have feelings. It doesn't mean you don't like to go to birthday parties. People with Down Syndrome want the same things that you and I want. They want to have close relationships, they want to feel love, they want to contribute, they want to have meaningful lives, and they want to go to birthday parties. It may be more difficult at times to understand my child. But the laughter and love that you share doesn't need interpretation.
I want you to know that I was also like you. I was scared, uncertain and misinformed about Down Syndrome before having my son. I was so worried that my other children wouldn't be able to connect with him in the same way as other siblings do. But I was wrong. In fact, my children are closer than most other siblings are. Having a brother with Down Syndrome has helped shape them into compassionate individuals who know that just because you may be a little different that others, that it's OK. They are not afraid to help when they see someone struggling. And they are not afraid to approach someone they might not fully understand. In return they have received so much love and joy from having their brother as their best friend.
Maybe you are struggling with the words to say to your child because your child did not want my son at their birthday party. Maybe you let your child decide that it was OK to single someone out. I know it can be difficult to teach our children about something we may not understand ourselves. I struggle with this as well. But this is a great opportunity and life lesson to have with your child. They will remember the time that their parent said to them, it's not OK to leave someone out because of their disability, race, or gender. I know you want the same things for your child that I want for mine. As parents, we want our children to be liked, to have friends, and to not be left behind. And how we do this is by setting examples ourselves and encouraging them to make choices that they might not be old enough to fully comprehend. But they will look back one day with understanding and the knowledge that you have shared with them. I am certain, that with a little encouragement, your child can develop a true friendship with my son that will leave a permanent, positive impression on them for the rest of their life.
It's only until this happened that I realized myself that Sawyer hasn't been invited to hardly anyone's birthday party this past year. The kids are getting to that age where they often only invite a few children to their parties and he hasn't made the cut. Other parents I know that have children with Down Syndrome have often started the school year by educating the class and I haven't done that. He's always just been Sawyer to me and I haven't felt the need to talk about Down Syndrome to his class until this moment. I realize now that I have let him down. I have let a year slip away where I could have done more to educate families. Perhaps then we wouldn't be in this situation. I realize that it's my obligation as his parent and advocate to educate people more about what it means to have Down Syndrome and how they are more like you than different. I now know how important it is to talk about it and it's something I am committed to doing a better job of.
Please know that I am here to talk if you would like. I may be a mama bear but I am not a scary person. I recognize that we all make mistakes and at the end of the day, I think we both could have done better.
Thank you,
Jennifer (Sawyer's Mom)UPDATED:
Thank you everyone for your kind comments and for sharing your own stories. I'm trying to read them all.I want you to know that there is a happy ending to this story. The parent read my letter, spoke to their child about Sawyer, and the child created a special birthday invite for Sawyer. Of course he's been beaming ever since and can't stop talking about it.
I'm really proud that my letter has reached so many people because it's not just this birthday party and its not just Sawyer. There are so many kids with special needs (and without of course) that just don't make the cut. I think as parents we all need to do a better job of fostering these relationships, myself included.
I hope that parents who read this will help open that dialogue with their own child and perhaps make that one 'extra' invitation.
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Saturday, July 4, 2015
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Hope you all are having a great weekend...
I realized I hadn't shared my Patriotic Door Decor.
I changed out my door basket before Memorial Day
and I'll leave it out for another week or two.
A mix of red geraniums, blue hydrangeas, and white daisies.
Be sure and add the flags.
And my windowbox in the Dining Room has white geraniums now.
I've added in more vintage flags for this week.
With my French Ticking Stripe table runner.
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5.3: Trains in Motion
This activity is intended to supplement Algebra I, Chapter 4, Lesson 8.
Problem 1 – Observe Motion
Two trains are leaving the same train station but on different tracks. Time is measured in hours and distance is measured in kilometers.
Run the program TRAINS and select option 1, OBSERVE MOTION.
This shows the trains leaving the train station (\begin{align*}y-\end{align*}axis).
Train 1: top track
Train 2: bottom track
Press TRACE and use the arrow keys to help answer the following questions.
- Write at least 2 complete sentences describing the motion. Compare train 1 to train 2.
- When time \begin{align*}= 0\end{align*}, what is the initial location of train 1? (include units) _________
- What is the initial position of train 2? __________
- Which train is traveling at a faster rate? ___________
- What is the speed of the faster train? ___________
- How far did the slower train go in \begin{align*}1 \ hour\end{align*}? __________
- What is the rate of motion of the slower train? ___________
- At what distance are the trains the same distance from the station? ___________
- What time are the trains the same distance from the station? _____________
Problem 2 – Distance-Time Graph
Press \begin{align*}2^{nd}\end{align*} [MODE] ENTER. Select option 2, DIST VS TIME.
For this graph, the \begin{align*}x-\end{align*}axis is time and the \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}axis is distance.
Press TRACE and use the arrow keys to help answer the following questions.
10. Which train has the graph with a steeper slope? _________
11. What quantity does the slope represent? _________
12. What is the \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}intercept of each graph?
a) \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}intercept for train 1: ______________
b) \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}intercept for train 2: ______________
13. What is the physical meaning of the \begin{align*}y-\end{align*}intercept for this distance-time graph?
14. Write an equation for the graph of each train.
a) train 1: _____________________
b) train 2: _____________________
15. To algebraically solve for the time when the two trains are the same distance from the station, set the two equations equal to each other and solve for time. Substitute this time into either equation to find the distance. Show your work.
Extension: List of \begin{align*}d = r \cdot t\end{align*} Data
Clear all the lists. On the Home screen press \begin{align*}2^{nd} \ [+]\end{align*}, select ClrAllLists, and press ENTER.
Also turn off all Plots. Press \begin{align*}2^{nd} \ [Y=]\end{align*}, select PlotsOff, and press ENTER.
Press MODE and press ENTER on G-T to display the graph and table side-by-side.
Set Plot1 to be a scatter plot by pressing \begin{align*}2^{nd} \ [Y=]\end{align*} ENTER and match the screen to the right.
Press Window and change the settings to \begin{align*}[-1, 6]\end{align*} for \begin{align*}x\end{align*} and \begin{align*}[-5, 50]\end{align*} for \begin{align*}y\end{align*}.
Now enter the following distance-time data into lists \begin{align*}L1\end{align*} and \begin{align*}L2\end{align*} by pressing STAT and selecting Edit…
\begin{align*}L1: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4\end{align*}
\begin{align*}L2: 0, 5, 10, 15, 20\end{align*}
Note: these distance are for a speed of \begin{align*}5\ mi/hr\end{align*}.
Observe the table of values and their scatter plot by pressing GRAPH.
16. When the rate is \begin{align*}5\ mi/hr\end{align*}, what is the distance when the time is \begin{align*}5 \ hours\end{align*}? In other words, what should the next value be in \begin{align*}L2\end{align*}?
Test this by entering \begin{align*}5\end{align*} in \begin{align*}L1\end{align*} and your "guess" in \begin{align*}L2\end{align*}. See if you are correct by pressing GRAPH.
To observe the changes other rates have on the resulting graph, in the List Editor move the cursor so that it is on top of \begin{align*}L2\end{align*} and enter \begin{align*}L1*3\end{align*}.
Then view the graph to observe the resulting changes.
Enter as well as other values for the rate.
17. When \begin{align*}r\end{align*} increases: Describe the slope. What happens to the distance?
When \begin{align*}r\end{align*} decreases: Describe the slope. What happens to the distance?
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