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Around the 4-month mark is when you can start introducing solid food to a baby. It's as nerve-racking as it sounds. What do you feed a baby? I can split these fries with him? No, not exactly.
We started off with the traditional rice cereal. We kept that recipe going until I thought perhaps he was getting too tired of the same old things; formula and rice cereal.
My mom, who watches Noah while I'm at work, started feeding him foods she made. She made our food growing up so I wasn't too shocked to see her making his foods. It started off with potatoes, squash and carrots and gradually moved to adding bananas (his favorite), blueberries, strawberries and apples.
I didn't initially start off parenthood with the intent of making my son's meals. (Well, aside from breastfeeding.) In all honesty, it was something I hadn't thought too much about. However, watching my mom make his meals and realizing that Noah had yet to eat some of the jars of Gerber food found in our pantry, that someone had gifted to us, made me stop and think long and hard about it. What did I want to feed my son? What would be in his best interests? How about my own? A happy, healthy baby is the ultimate goal of any parent so what can I do to achieve that? My mom, a woman ahead of her time, made most of our meals. What she didn't make was pizza only because she didn't know how. She's a Mexican first. My father's side is Italian and even still, we don't know enough to make our own pizza. Also, I can honestly say that I have yet to eat a Happy Meal from McDonald's. My mom never went out and got them for us instead telling us, "Oh, you want a Happy Meal? I'll make it for you." And suddenly, here I am, making my son's food and I am still alive. Why didn't I put more thought into this before I decided to have a baby? Why did I think it was going to be hard? Why would it have mattered if it was going to be hard? It's my son's health and well-being. What the what?
I spent this weekend making my son chicken, squash, pears, plums, peaches and apples. All of them pureed of course and, according to the BNC, all of them yummy. I surprised myself very much this weekend not only with the fact that I was able to carve out time to do this, as well as pre-make some dinners for the week four ourselves, but also about how calm I was about it. I didn't know I had it in me to be a mother who makes her son's meals. I am that person now and while I was a little ashamed that I didn't put too much thought into this before and after my life as a parent, I'm glad that I snapped to it and did something about it. My son, who just turned 6 months old, is happy and healthy and just got all good marks from his pediatrician. And, at the risk of jinxing it, he has yet to get sick. Keeping him clean must help but there has to be some truth about your immunities being found in breastmilk. Turns out, there was a payoff to all those times I got sick as a child; they went to my son instead. Yay!
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10 Things You Should Never Put On Your Face, 9 Will Disappoint You
The following 10 items should not be part of your regimen for a pretty face:
1. Body Lotion
Body lotion is called "body lotion" for a reason – it is designed for the body. Compared with the skin on the face, the skin on your body is thicker and more resistant. Body lotions usually contain more aroma and less ingredients that are intended to moisturize.
2. Hairspray
You may encounter some home remedies for skin care that includes hairspray to dry out acne or other skin care treatments. While hairspray can dry out the skin, it will clog your pores and lead to irritation of the skin.
3. Vaseline
Vaseline is usually used to moisturize dry or chapped skin. It can be used to treat bites from bugs or cuts, but this is not the appropriate solution for your face. When you first apply Vaseline to the face, you have the sense that it helps to moisturize and soften the skin, but it actually leads to more pimples and dry condition.
4. Toothpaste
Using toothpaste on the face is very common for many people, the reason why is because toothpaste can dry acne. However, it will also irritate the skin and can cause serious problems, such as chemical burns or scars.
5. Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide is often used to prevent infection of minor cuts and burns, but it is not a good choice for treating acne. The use of hydrogen peroxide can lead to blistering of the skin against oxidative stress. Another reason to avoid hydrogen peroxide is that he is the cause of inflammation and allergic reactions.
6. Hot water
Everyone enjoys under a hot shower. Too much hot water will soften the natural oils and remove the protective barrier that keeps moisture from escaping. This will cause more dryness.
7. Baking soda
Baking soda has a rough texture and consistency, which for some people it seems like a logical component for peeling. Avoid it at all costs. Maintaining the natural pH balance is vital to have a healthy skin. Using baking soda to get this balance, will damage the skin and prevent it being able to retain moisture.
8. Sugar
Most exfoliating facial that you can read and see contain sugar. This is another idea that seems like it will work, but it actually does more harm than good. As mentioned, your facial skin is not as elastic as the skin on your body. Sugar may be suitable for peeling feet, but it can damage the skin on the face.
9. Lemon
The lemon can disrupt your pH balance from your face. Avoid using any of these items on site. There are many beneficial treatments for skin care products that you can use, but none of them should contain ten things above.
10. Alcohol
Alcohol is another item that can be beneficial, but not to your face. The alcohol may be used to sterilize the wound and prevent infection. When you first apply the alcohol on your face, you can feel the freshness, but it can actually dissolve the DNA of your skin cells, resulting in dead skin cells.

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Now that the hustle and bustle of the
holidays is over it's time to get
back to crafting and posting!
Originally, I made this card for a Christmas card,
but I think it could also double as a winter or Valentine card
given the color scheme and sentiment!
Supplies and Tools:
Snowflake Embossing folder (Provo Craft), Star Template
Paper Crimper (Fiskars), Baker's Twine, Button, Ric Rac
Square Punch (for banner), Word Die (Momenta)
This post linked to:
Anything Goes
Something New
(I used my recently purchased word die for the sentiment)
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I've changed the fonts and some colors, thanks to the bookmarklets in the last post. It far from the redesign I have half-planned, but a little more visually interesting. Subtle, yet tasteless. I mean timeless. It seems to me that pretty much every blog I visit is better designed than mine. Which, I guess, makes sense sicne I spend minimal time on site design.
The weekend is nearly upon us. Tonight we begin tearing down a large wall in the house. This weekend might be time for another renovation update. Look for it at your local Aces Full of Links later this month.Posted by James at September 26, 2003 9:49 AM
I'm finding the new font harder to read...Posted by: julie at September 26, 2003 10:28 AM
Very nice, the new new look. Is that like the "new black," which is, as I understand it, grey?
I'm confused.
In any event, I am enjoying your move closer to minimalism.Posted by: Patti M. at September 26, 2003 2:25 PM
I'm trying to keep the minimalism to a minimum. :)
Actually, I want to distinguish the blog a little. I need to add a number of features in here, but I want to do it while preserving the simplicity.
Some graphics would be nicer, but I haven' figured out how to integrate them neatly.
This is one step on the road. We'll see where it goes.Posted by: James at September 26, 2003 2:37 PM


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|The title of this article is conjecture based on information revealed in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels or related material and may be subject to change.
- "According to prophecy, our champion will be reborn to wake dragons from stone and reforge the great sword Lightbringer that defeated the darkness those thousands of years ago. If the old tales are true, a terrible weapon forged with a loving wife's heart. Part of me thinks man was well rid of it, but great power requires great sacrifice. That much at least the Lord of Light is clear on."
- ―Thoros of Myr
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Nissa Nissa was the wife of Azor Ahai.
Salladhor Saan tells the legend: Darkness lay over the world and Azor Ahai was the hero chosen to fight against it. To fight the darkness, Azor Ahai needed to forge a hero's sword. He labored for thirty days and thirty nights until it was done. However, when he went to temper it in water, the sword broke. He was not one to give up easily, so he started over. The second time he took fifty days and fifty nights to make the sword, even better than the first. To temper it this time, he captured a lion and drove the sword into its heart, but once more the steel shattered. The third time, with a heavy heart, for he knew before hand what he must do to finish the blade, he worked for a hundred days and a hundred nights until it was finished. This time, he called for his wife and asked her to bare her breast. He drove his sword into her breast, her soul combining with the steel of the sword, creating Lightbringer.
When Davos Seaworth hears the story, he marvels at the thought of such true sword of fire. But then he thinks of his beloved wife Marya and decides that if this is the price of a magic sword - it is more than he cares to pay.
See also
Legendary Figures
Garth Greenhand · First King · Florian & Jonquil · The Grey King · The Griffin King · Harlon the Hunter · Herndon of the Horn · Hugor of the Hill · Joramun · Lann the Clever
The Night King · The Night's King & the Night's Queen · The Rat Cook · God-on-Earth · The Prince That Was Promised · The Winged Knight


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Rather than focusing on money and little details, the focus of a wedding ought to be on how much the couple love each other. The most important part of the wedding is the betrothed couple and those they love. The following article has the information you need to plan the right wedding.
Realize that religion is going to play a major role on your actual wedding day and moving forward in your marriage. It is wise to have conversations with your future mate and his or her family to be sure you all understand each other's religious beliefs.
Purchasing your wedding gown on the internet can be a budget saver, cutting down your costs by hundreds of dollars. Make sure to order early so you have time for alterations if any need to be made. While buying a dress online may be less expensive, alterations can quickly add to the cost. Include this additional cost when you plan for your budget.
If you want a unique reception, get cuisine that centers around a certain ethnic theme. Chicken, steak and other common choices are overused, so you should go with a unique menu. Weddings are known for being unique and your reception should offer a variety of foods to satisfy everyone.
Think about wedding transportation. If you have people who need to get home after the reception, have taxis ready to bring them. This is also helpful for anyone who has had alcohol at the wedding.
Spend some time writing your vows. These words are important for your new spouse. Be clear about the fact that both parties must make a number of sacrifices and be consistent to the commitment of marriage. Of course, the most important thing for vows to convey is your love for your partner.
Practice before a mirror for your walk down the aisle. If you're worried that you will twist your ankle, you can wear flats instead. Not falling beats wearing sexy shoes.
If you have a destination wedding and your family is there, see if they want to stay for the honeymoon. You can get some great deals on hotels if you need group accommodations. Then you can have a memorable wedding and your guests will enjoy a mini vacation.
A piece of fabric that matches your cake can be placed on a table and function as the focal point. There are many options that you can choose. These include patterns, solids and fabrics that are heavily textured. You can use silk, velvet or satins to blend the elements together.
Silk flowers can be a different variety of flowers you could choose for your wedding. Because they're synthetic, you don't have to wait until the last minute to purchase them, eliminating your concerns about floral arrangements on your wedding day.
As mentioned, a wedding represents the bond between to people, not how fancy the wedding decorations are. Your wedding can very well be wonderful due to the love you share. Use what you learned in this article to create a magical day.
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'N MAN MAAK 'N PLAN ("A man makes a plan" - A popular Afrikaans saying, meaning when a man has a problem, he makes a scheme, whatever it takes, to get around it).
An old man lived alone in Cape Town. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, Clemence, who used to help him, was in Polsmoor Prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament.
"Dear Clemence,
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me.
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
"Dear Papa,
For heaven's sake, Papa, don't dig up that garden, that's where I Buried the BODIES.
At 4 A.M. the next morning, the Scorpion Unit, NIA agents and local police showed up and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. (Note: The agents named are crack units of the SA Police).
They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
"Dear Papa,
Go ahead and plant the potatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.


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Hi foodelicious peeps, do you love fast food or crispy chicken? This recommendations is just for you! Some how i found it special as they prepared their food and they put it in metal box! The crispy chicken the fried till so crispy like you are eating crackers! So why not, give it a try if you haven't!
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Strictly Pancakes!
Finally! Visited the one that I always wanted to try, Strictly Pancakes! The pancakes taste really very different from MacDonald! Strictly Pancakes are mainly on pancakes, to me they are creative in a sense that most dinner they come with rice or noddles etc but they change to pancakes and served with seafood base with prawns of course beside seafood they still have choices of meat either chicken or pork etc. I only get to try their original mix n match style and makes me real full! I would like to drop by again to try out other dishes too! They also have fingers food and beverages like milkshake or the hot chocolate and mocha etc. Can't wait to visit again!
44A Prinsep Street Singapore 188674 Tel: 6333 4202
Opening Hours: Mon: 6pm – 10pm*,
Tue – Thurs: 1130am – 10pm*,
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Yami Yogurt!
My all time favorite YAMI YOGURT!!! Just want to post this, if you are a yogurt lover, you really should try this! And I always choose the banana boat as is very worth it! Is just $4 and you can choose three flavor and a split banana, some fruits and some peanuts sprinkle on your banana boat! If you doesn't want you can always take the original regular cup! What are you waiting for, go get yours now!
Yami yogurt
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Tonkotsu King!
Visited Tonkotsu King @ Bugis village on my last weekend! First time here and the ramen was really nice! You can actually choose which flavor you like. This outlet only have five flavor where as the other outlet they don't the four season flavor. First time heard about where the chef actually came out using 'seasons' to represent the dish! The flavor are name as 'Spring', 'Summer', 'Autumn' 'Winter' and lastly the 'King'. I also tried out the 'Green Tea cola' but for me the cola is special as is because of the green tea? Anyway you can give it a try! Enjoy!
Ramen Keisuke Tonkotsu King Four Seasons
158 Rochor Road Bugis Village Singapore 188433 (Bugis MRT)
Tel: +65 6333 5740
Opening Hours: 11:30am – 2:30pm, 5pm – 10:30pm (Mon-Fri), 11:30am – 10:30pm (Sun)
Bear Paw Bun!!!
I was waiting to try this for a long time! Planning to fly to Taiwan, Fenjia Night Market to try this bear paw bun! But now I don't think is a need as I saw on newspaper and Singapore having their grand opening at Scape! I know bear paw bun at the Jacky Guess show (one of the variety show in Taiwan) they actually introduced this cute little bear paw bun at Feng Jia Night Market. There are quite a lot of flavors of the bun like Yam, original milk flavor, curry, squid ink and etc. Either you choose fillet or chicken karakage and then choose your own dressing. It's so simple, and the bun was so cute! Is actually like a Chinese version of burgers. So why not give it a try!
Bear Bites Singapore
Scape, 2 Orchard Link #02-42 (outdoor area behind Old Chang Kee), Somerset Singapore 237978
Opening Hours: 10:30am – 10:30pm
Grand Park Hotel~
First time visited Grand Park Hotel and tried their buffet! Actually specially thanks to my relatives as they are celebrating their 1st month birthday for their second child and yup congrats and blessed to have this opportunity to taste the food at this hotel! Didn't take much food as I was busy trying the food over there opps! But the food is really nice and the place and atmosphere was great, while walking pass the lobby there's actually a open swimming pool quite relaxing hotel! Enjoy the food and place!
Strawberry mousse chocolate desserts~
Hi peeps, love some small desserts? Found this cute little no bake recipe that I'd paste it below. Is called 'Raspberry mousse chocolate cupcakes' but I change it to strawberry. Next time will try again and try it with raspberry! Is fun and easy so I decided to give it a try! Doesn't look like exact but did my best to try it. Shall do it better the next time! Enjoy!


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: Babies May Be More Sensitive to Pain Than Adults
Posted April 22, 2015
TUESDAY, April 21, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Babies feel pain in much the same way as adults, says a new study that challenges some experts' beliefs that babies don't feel pain.
Some people have argued that babies' brains aren't developed enough for them to really "feel" pain, said study lead author Dr. Rebeccah Slater, of the department of pediatrics at Oxford University in England. "Our study provides the first really strong evidence that this is not the case," Slater said.
"Our study suggests that not only do babies experience pain, but they may be more sensitive to it than adults," she said in a university news release.
The study included 10 healthy infants, ages 1 to 6 days, and 10 healthy adults, ages 23 to 36. All underwent MRI scans of their brains while they were poked on the bottom of their feet.
The results showed that 18 of the 20 brain regions that were active in adults in response to pain were also active in babies.
The scans also showed that babies had the same response to a weak poke as adults did to a poke that was four times stronger, which suggests that babies have a much lower pain threshold than adults, said the researchers.
The study was published in the April 21 issue of the journal eLife.
"Up until recently, people didn't think it was possible to study pain in babies using MRI because, unlike adults, they don't keep still in the scanner," Slater said.
But babies less than a week old are more docile than older babies, and "we found that their parents were able to get them to fall asleep inside a scanner so that, for the first time, we could study pain in the infant brain using MRI," she explained.
This is particularly important when it comes to pain, she said, since babies can't verbalize their experience of pain and it is difficult to assess pain from visual observations.
Slater said babies undergo painful procedures every day, but there are often no pain management guidelines to help clinicians.
"We have to think that if we would provide pain relief for an older child undergoing a procedure, then we should look at giving pain relief to an infant undergoing a similar procedure," Slater concluded.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Stupid Genetics
I know why I am, if you saw my sister and I standing next to each other there would be no doubt in your mind that we were related to each other. The funnest thing to me is were asked several times if we were TWINS (LOL). Not so funny to my sister since she if 5 years younger then me.
It is interesting how not a single person commented on how Ant looked. Not a mention of how he looked like me or my sister. I know he doesn't but usually people try to find something. They were just so overwhelmed by my likeness to my sister.
Moments like these with my sister thing about the genetics that Ant and I don't share. When we are around my family they comment on how much he looks like DH (I LOVE THIS!) but I feel left out of the genetic equation. The funniest thing to me is that I long for people to find likeness between Ant and I. As funny as I think it is I want them to tell me Ant looks like me. It reassures me that we picked the right donor.
Stupid Genetics why do you taunt me! I want to push you to the back of my mind and never think of you again but you are just to strong. I see why some people can never move past it. At times I don't know how I did. I just wanted out of that deep dark infertile hole that I used to live in.
Ant I am so glad you are in my life. You make me forget about the part of me that I lost to POF. You have filled that loss but when I am around my family that loss if thrown in my face again and again. It isn't their fault we look so much a like, it is all the fault of genetics. The same genetics that gave me POF.
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oh DD, I'm so sorry the likeness talk never stops... I keep telling myself that I don't look like my mother at all, and even less like my brother (most people don't believe we are related: me tall dark, him smaller blond blue eyes) For me this was never an issue, but I know there is no easier way to please my mom than to tell her you can see a likeness. So for Ant, it shouldn´t stop him from being the happiest boy on earth. And I hope it helps a little. (And, yes I'm sorry to hear that the pain from IF and POF isn't magically erased by DE. I love you for sharing and thus preparing me to follow in your steps. Keep going!)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 18, 2011 at 4:22 PM
Diva...great post as I anticipate such experiences when my little one is born (13 more weeks). Reading such posts will make me feel less isolated when it happens to me. Sorry IF bites you in the arse from time to time by pushing your "genetics" buttons. But I know that you love Ant as much as I love my unborn DE baby and nothing else matters.ReplyDelete


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Monday, May 22, 2006
Luxembourg's largest steel company Arcelor is ready to study Mittal Steel's improved takeover offer, the former said on Sunday, opening the door to possible talks with Indian steel magnate Laxminivas Mittal. Arcelor Chairman Joseph Kinsch told reporters after a meeting of Arcelor's board that the company's directors would be ready to examine the details of Mittal's latest offer once it has been approved by the CSSF (Luxembourg's financial regulatory body).
Until Sunday, Arcelor, the world's second-largest steel company, had firmly rejected world-leader Mittal's bid to take the former company over and form a global steel giant. The softening of Arcelor's stance comes after Mittal Steel raised its hostile cash-and-equity bid by a third on Friday and dropped a key demand for family control over the combined entity.
Media reports had suggested that Arcelor was trying to find another company to rescue it from being taken over by Mittal Steel. Possible candidates included Russian tycoon Vladimir Lisin and Russia's Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). Mittal's move on Friday came after the value of its initial offer fell more than 10 percent behind the market worth of Arcelor, as the latter announced a buyback of its own shares at above-market prices to ward off Mittal Steel.
Laxminivas Mittal, who has hinted that the bitter takeover battle might have a hint of racism involved in it, told the French newspaper La Tribune that he was sure that the attractive nature of his revised offer would enable him to obtain over 50% of the Arcelor shares. He added that he was of the opinion that the involvement of a Russian third party would not be in the best interests of Arcelor's shareholders.


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Just what helps LTO tape technology do its magic to quickly and reliably protect and preserve your data? There are a number of key technologies that contribute to its storage capabilities, performance and longevity. In this BlogBytes we will expose the guts of LTO technology and see what keeps its heart beating to the protect and preserve drum.
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The hummingbird has an enlarged heart which supplies the wings with the oxygen it needs for high speed wing flapping of up to 200 times per second. The heartbeat gem that keeps LTO tape humming is the advanced servo system. As shown in Figure 1, there are 4 data regions, or bands, on the LTO tape media to store data. In the case of LTO-6 tape that's up to 6.25TB of high-speed storage compressed! Each of the data bands is bordered by two servo bands. One servo band above and below each data band. The servo bands are read by servo read elements in the tape drive head assembly to provide precise alignment of the head assembly for highly reliable read and write accuracy. Only one servo band is needed to provide alignment but the system uses two at all times for built-in redundancy. I like that and so should you. The servo system is one of the key features that makes LTO tape so trustworthy with a strong roadmap to the future. If you are feeling really techy see LTO Tape Technology 'How it Works.'
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LTO tape can be used like a disk drive. That's correct, with the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) and LTO 5 or 6 technology the tape can be used like a disk or USB thumb drive. We wrote about this in detail in previous LTFS BlogBytes. LTFS with LTO tape is making tape easier to use than ever before. See an LTFS overview video.
LTO technology features strong encryption capabilities to secure your data at rest or in transport. It uses a 256-symmetric key AES-GCM algorithm that is implemented at the drive level allowing the data to be compressed and then encrypted for maximum capacity secure storage. Read about LTO Tape Encryption and a user story.
LTO WORM implementation is designed to provide users a very cost effective means of storing data in a non-rewriteable formatto address compliance regulations. It features robust algorithms using the Write Once Read Many (WORM) Cartridge Memory, in conjunction with low level encoding that is masteredon the tape media at the time of manufacture and it is designed to prevent tampering. If you need to have data stored and not worry about it being modified, use LTO WORM tape. Read more – LTO WORM.
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Tonight, I received a call at 9:00 PM from your church telling me that I was invited to attend your services. I was not allowed to talk with an actual person. Instead, I was read a recorded message by a machine. I suppose that on a Saturday night it must be difficult for you to find members of your church who are willing to spend their own time to be missionaries to their own neighbors. They must be doing something else, like holding family prayer meetings in the privacy of their own homes, or giving assistance to the needy, or reading the Bible. Yes, I'm sure that's what your church members were doing on Saturday night instead of talking to me, person to person, about why I need to attend your church to find salvation.
I called your church back. No one answered. I went to visit your church. No one was there. The lights were all out. Maybe you were out somewhere living the "Greater Life". Quite right that you couldn't spend your own valuable time converting the unsaved. I guess you take Saturday evenings off and let the machines do the holy work for you. You must have been asking yourself what Jesus would do when you made that decision.
Let me tell you who I am. I am an atheist. I'll explain what that means, just in case no one has ever told you about what an atheist is. I think that Christianity is a lie. I think that you are all wasting your time, giving money to egotistical preachers who like to get up in front of you every week and tell you what they think is right and what they think is wrong. I think that you are wasting your time praying to a God that doesn't exist. I think that you are wasting your time, but you know, that's your business, and it's all right with me.
What is not all right with me is that you have wasted my time by hiring a machine to interrupt my Saturday evening. What makes you think that this is acceptable behavior? I don't bother you, even though I think that you and your entire religion is a mistake. I let you Christians make your mistakes because I don't think it's respectful to intrude into the lives of strangers to tell them how wrong they are.
How many times have you had an atheist knock on your door, or call you late in the evening, or send you unsolicited mail, or leave pamphlets in your door, to invite you to give up Jesus Christ? It doesn't happen. How many times do you think I have had to listen to Christians tell me that I deserve eternal punishment because I don't think the way that they do? Your religion is pushy. Your religion is disrespectful. Your religion is rude.
But you know, your religion is pretty successful. You get new converts all the time, lining up to make your reverends richer. Maybe I've been wrong, trying to be a nice, polite, quiet little atheist.
Well, you've taught me a valuable lesson. From now on, I'll be as rude as a Christian. Tonight, I'm forming a church of my own: The First Lower Life Missionary Church of the Happy Sinners. You'll be hearing from us, every Saturday night, inviting you to stop on over to our 9:00 Sunday morning service of godless profanity. We'd be happy to de-baptize you, free of charge. Of course, if you want to tithe, we won't refuse.
See you there!The Wrong Reverend Jonathan C. Cook


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Live pure, Speak true, Right wrong, Follow the King
Things to Show that World That Christians Can Live on the Edge, Too!!!
gleaned from the Internet
1) At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2) Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3) Insist that your email address is
[email protected]
[email protected]
4) Everytime someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5) Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.
6) Put a garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
7) Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
8) Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to expresso.
9) Reply to everything someone says with "That's what you think."
10) Finish all sentences with "in accordance with prophecy."
11) Don't use any punctuation
12) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
13) Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
14) Sing along at the opera.
15) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
16) Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Wear them one day after your boss does. This is especially effective if your boss is of the opposite gender.
17) Put mosquito netting around your cubicle. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
18) Call the psychic hotline and don't say anything.
19) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream, "I won! I won! Third time this week!!!"
20) When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling, "They're loose! They're loose!!!"
21) Tell your boss, "It's not the voices in my head that are bothering me. It's the voices in your head that do."
22) Tell your children over dinner, "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
Ten Things to Really Like About Christian TV
Kyle Minor
The Door Magazine
#10 Everyone seems so genuine.
#9 The production values are so much better than that network stuff.
#8 The theological clarity of the guests help me to understand the Bible better.
#7 The music is just amazing.
#6 The game shows, especially Bible Trivia, help me to remember important facts, like the age of Abraham's wife when she had Isaac.
#5 The merchandise for sale during the commercial breaks helps me to share my faith with my friends. Especially the Christian T-shirts and the Christian candy and the Christian phone calling card.
#4 Two words: eye shadow. I get the best makeup tips!
#3 The scrolling words at the bottom of the screen really help me keep in contact with what's going on in the Christian community.
#2 The variety shows, especially Swan's Place, are good, old-time entertainment, free of anything offensive, including humor, bad language, unbiblical portrayals of family life, witty satire, lustful objects of desire, and good writing.
#1 The way Christian TV is impacting the culture for Christ. I mean, everyone I run into at the supermarket says, "I used to think Christians were just a bunch of fakes who did things poorly and tried to exploit and profit off the weakest in the community. But then I saw TBN. Boy, was I wrong!"
True Stories!
Pirated from Ship of Fools
A Lutheran pastor was gaining momentum in the delivery of his sermon on the Devil's crafty attacks on the faithful. He meant to say: "and the devil's fiery darts," but to everyone's surprise, he uttered... "and the Devil's diary farts."
Taliban TV Guide
Kathy Harris-Zmudka
The Door Magazine
Note: This was done pre-9.11
Gene-Spliced Religions
Pete Court
The Door Magazine
As the debate rages over genetically altered foods, a whole new way of living is about to sweep the world as genetically modified religions come on the market. Here's what will soon be offered:
The Salvation Amish
• Wear military-styled uniforms... with wooden buttons and sandals.
• Provide the homeless with shelter... in their barns.
• The soup kitchen is a large cauldron over an open fire.
Roman Baptists
• Communion everyday and a huge grape juice bill.
• Full-immersion confessionals.
• Lots of fragrance-free censers.
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Scientologists
• Half the church follow a group of vacuous wannabe pop stars and the other half are fans of the British singing group.
• Cycling door-to-door singing obnoxious pop ditties.
• Men can marry as many ditsy British pop stars as they like. In the more liberal
wing, so can the women.
Assemblies of Goth
• Huge meeting halls, all blacked out, with masses of candelabras
• Heavy metal choruses sung 20 times by a choir dressed in black with heavy
white face paint and black eye shadow.
• All retreats are to ancient European castles or haunted houses.
Another Christian T-Shirt We Never Want To See.
Top 10 New Christian Computer Viruses
Shane Matsumoto
The Door Magazine
10) The Hugh Ross virus: The whole back of your computer breaks wide open revealing its complexity and design. The shiny-topped monitor attempts to explain what you see using a lot of big words. This virus is NO accident!
9) The Jan Crouch virus: Computer monitor suddenly grows five feet of purple hair, emits annoying, ear-piercing tones, and bounces up and down constantly.
8) Jesus Seminar virus: Calls the most liberal CPUs together, debates between them which files were really authored by you, uses colored beads for ballots, and then discards 93% of the files on your hard drive.
7) The Religious TV Ministry virus: Creates a talk show or preaching program on your hard drive and names it after itself.
6) The John Jacobs and the Power Team virus: Monitor smashes itself against bricks, wood, concrete, and slabs of ice for the glory of God.
5) The Real 2012 virus: The virus itself does nothing, but the world itself destroys itself out of fear and panic anticipating what they think the virus will do.
4) The TBN virus: Seeing itself as the messenger angel described in the Revelation, it holds a telethon to raise money to spread itself to every computer in the whole wide world!
3) The Word of Faith Evangelist virus: Promising prosperity, it breaks into your bank account and promptly drains it of all your assets.
2) The CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) virus: Finds a popular "secular" virus to imitate and then rides on the coattails of the counterpart's popularity while catering exclusively to the Christian subculture.
And finally...
1) The Benny Hinn virus: Infected computer tells you to stretch your hands to the monitor, then blows on you and yells, "TAKE IT!"
Proposed Sequence of Hal Lindsey Apocalyptic Bestsellers
Ed Wier
The Door Magazine
* The Late Great Planet Earth
* The Later, Greater Planet Earth
* The Latest, Greatest Planet of Them All
* Planet Earth: Overdue and Overdrawn
* Planet Earth's Last Stand
* Planet Earth: Still Kicking
* The Planet That Would Not Quit
* Fat Lady Mother Earth Is Singing
* Planet Earth on Life Support
* Pulling the Plug on Planet Earth
* Planet Earth: Remember When?
* The Never Ending Story of Planet Earth
* The Late Great Hal Lindsey
Some Good Ol' American Memory VersesJust the Way We Remember 'Em
Den Hart
The Door Magazine
Romans 12.2
Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your Mastercard.
Matthew 8.21
Another man, one of his disciples, said to Him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." And Jesus told him, "OK. No problem - it's just as well that you do that right now - I mean, I wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone."
Colossians 3.5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Clothe yourselves, therefore, in successful business ventures, a good self-image, polyesters, and a deep tan.
Matthew 18.5
If a brother sins against you, go and tell someone else, but don't approach the brother about it. If he sins against you again, go and tell another person. And if he sins yet again, mention it to someone else, then drop a hint the brother. Sooner or later, he'll get the message. If not, leave the church and find somewhere else to go.
Luke 10.25-27
"Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" He answered, "Love the Lord your God with all your emotions, neglecting your mind, and love yourself first or you can't begin to love others."
Luke 18.22
When Jesus heard this, He said to them, "You still lack one thing - sell all you possess and give it to the poor... ha, ha, just kidding."
1 Corinthians 13.13
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is tongues.
True Stories!
Pirated from Ship of Fools
A young missionary stood in a packed Central African church for the first time. His French was not excellent. He had not distinguished between "arriere" (previous in time), from which the French derive "la vie en arriere" (one's life history), and "derriere" (behind in place), which also refers to your bottom. The young missionary's personal testimony of moving from darkness to light did not have the expected effect... instead, hundreds of African worshippers were squealing with laughter and falling into the aisles...
Lorsque je regarde derriere de moi, qu'est-ce que je peux voir? Je vois ma derriere – une derriere longue et grande. Je vois ma derriere separee en deux parties – l'une partie noire, et l'autre partie blanche. Et entre ces deux parties, qu'est-ce qu'il se trouve? Il se trouve entre les deux parties... une grande abime!
Quick translation into English...
When I look behind me, what can I see? I see my bottom... a great big, long bottom. I see my bottom divided into two halves – one black half and one white half. And what can one see between these two halves? A great abyss!


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Global Security
Following are all current, recent, and past IFPA projects, publications, conferences, workshops, articles, and presentations about global security-related issues.
- Weighing the Consequences of China's Control over the South China Sea
This was an eighteen-month project to research, analyze, and examine in depth the various consequences for the United States – and, to a somewhat lesser extent, for its regional allies and partner states – of varying degrees of Chinese control over the South China Sea. A monograph was completed in November 2017.
- download PDF (2.41 MB), November 2017
- project details
- selected readings
- Managing the Global Impact of America's Rebalance to Asia
The principal drivers behind America's rebalance toward Asia are Asia's growing economic and strategic importance, as well as increased military spending in the region led by China and Russia, trends that are likely to continue in the foreseeable future. The challenge for U.S. policy makers is to minimize any extra-regional disruptions the rebalance may cause and to maximize its global benefits. This project is an integrated, cross-regional study of the rebalance and its global impact.
- color monograph PDF download (2.3 MB)
- black & white monograph PDF download(2.35 MB)
- project details
- selected readings
- New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration
This project explores and assesses trends that together could transform the Arctic from a relative strategic backwater to a strategic crossroads of global importance.
- project details
- Oct. 2012 article (465 KB)
- monograph PDF (47.36MB, no charge)
- monograph bound copy ($24.99 + S&H)
- selected readings
- Democracy in Latin America Seminar Series: Challenges of Radical Populism
In association with the Hudson Institute, IFPA has examined radical populism in Latin America in order to provide policy recommendations to leaders of government and civil society in the Hemisphere to help counter anti-democratic forces and authoritarianism.
- Strengthening Forces for Democracy in the Middle East: Lessons from the Past and Strategies for the Future
This project was completed in 2006 as part of IFPA's ongoing work on democratization. The project's focus was democratic transformation in the Middle East and Central Asia.
- project report (249 KB)
- project details
- Weighing the Consequences of China's Control over the South China Sea
- Charles M. Perry, Bobby Andersen
- November 2017, 74 pp
This monograph, completed and published after the September 2017 death of principal investigator Charles Perry, details the findings of an 18-month project to research, analyze, and examine in depth the various consequences for the United States – and, to a somewhat lesser extent, for its regional allies and partner states – of varying degrees of Chinese control over the South China Sea.
- download PDF (2.41 MB), November 2017
- Managing the Global Impact of America's Rebalance to Asia
- Charles M. Perry and Bobby Andersen
- December 2014, 218 pp
Some three years after President Obama announced in a November 2011 speech to the Australian parliament that he had made a "deliberate and strategic decision" for the United States to "play a larger and long-term role in shaping [the Asia-Pacific] region" and to make the U.S. "presence and mission in the Asia-Pacific a top priority," the Pacific "pivot," as it was initially called, remains very much a work in progress. This monograph reviews the rationale for the pivot; provides an update on its progress; assesses European views on the pivot and Asian security; explores security trends in other regions and their implications for the pivot; and offers recommendations for implementing the rebalance in ways that do not shortchange security in other important areas of the globe, and that might even draw on contributions from them.
- New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration
- Charles M. Perry and Bobby Andersen
- February 2012, 190 pp
A comprehensive examination of the new strategic map now emerging in the Arctic as the polar ice cap continues to melt, opening a new ocean and giving way to new and ever larger waterways in the High North. This monograph is available as a free PDF download or as a bound copy for $24.99.
- monograph PDF (47.36 MB, no charge)
- monograph bound copy ($24.99 + S&H)
- project details
- selected readings
- A Comprehensive Approach to Combating Illicit Trafficking
- A joint report by IFPA and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
- June 2010, 176 pp
This report is based on extensive independent research conducted by IFPA on the multifaceted challenges posed by illicit trafficking and efforts to combat it; the report also incorporates discussions held at a high-level international workshop on the topic organized by IFPA and GCSP in Geneva, Switzerland, in September 2009.
- report (8.63 MB)
- workshop details
- Strengthening Forces for Democracy in the Middle East: Lessons from the Past & Strategies for the Future
- March 2006, 21 pp
This report is based on a workshop of the same title convened by the Institute on February 9, 2006, in Washington, D.C., with the generous support of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. It assesses the extent to which Cold War lessons in the struggle against Communism have relevance to the war against radical Salafist ideologies and to efforts to establish democracies in the wider Muslim world. The report examines the prospects for democracy in the area spanning North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Both the workshop and the report contributed to IFPA's ongoing research focused on post-conflict reconstruction and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and, at the same time, to efforts to inform and help shape U.S. government democratization efforts and public diplomacy strategies.
- workshop report (249 KB)
- project details
- Beyond Hugo Chávez: What to Expect in Latin America
- May 8, 2013, Washington, D.C.
IFPA's Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., moderated this seminar in the IFPA-Hudson "Democracy in Latin America" seminar series.
- Exploring Options for Iran: Implications for DoD and Interagency Planning
- January 28, 2011, Washington, D.C., an IFPA-DTRA workshop
- Responding to a Nuclear Event Outside the United States: Synchronizing Department of Defense, Combatant Command, and Interagency Roles, Missions, and Capabilities
- September 29, 2010, Washington, D.C., in support of the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- A Comprehensive Approach to Combating Illicit Trafficking
- September 28 – September 29, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
Organized by IFPA and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, with the support of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
- Nuclear Energy and Science for the 21st Century: Atoms for Peace Plus 50
- October 22, 2003, Washington D.C.
- report (2.4 MB)
- The 33rd IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy
- October 16 – October 17, 2002, Washington, D.C.
- report (1.95 MB)


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Many people will definitely wear Halloween costumes this year, in some schools though, many students didn't realize that their teachers have to dress up as well. However, most teachers don't feel like wearing a costume... not the costumes that suit their tastes of course. In all levels, grade school to college, teachers and professors are often oblige to wear costumes of Halloween. But it looks like they don't have a choice but to follow school events guidelines and wear teachers Halloween costumes.
For grade school teachers, you can dress up as someone that most of your students can relate. It should be cartoon theme, fantasy theme, or even funny costumes like a banana or a sandwich. For those first timers to buy Halloween costumes, keep in mind that teachers Halloween costumes are are big for manufacturers of these costumes. Definitely, you'll get the costume that you want.
Teachers wearing costumes during Halloween is also a hit for older students. In fact, they would really think you're such a cool teacher. And a big hit for them usually are those movie theme costumes, such as GI Joe, Transformers or Xmen. It's also great to come up with the latest movie themes. How about an upcoming movie which will be released next year, like Alice in Wonderland? Movie theme costumes are great teachers Halloween costumes.
In college levels, celebrity Halloween costumes are the best teachers Halloween costumes. You can just pick the most recognizable celebrity today like Lady Gaga or Kanye West. It's also great if you can make Michael Jackson or Marilyn Monroe come back to life by wearing their costumes for Halloween. Choosing what to costumes to wear for teachers can be very easy, it can be anything that comes to mind.
Other teachers though, may choose not to wear costumes for Halloween. Perhaps they don't want to look funny in front of their students, perhaps they just don't have any idea of what to wear. Whatever the reason is, it's best to keep in mind that Halloween are, after all, just for fun... so looking funny or goofy won't be as bad as you think. It's, in fact, a perfect time to show your funny and creative side to your students.
Nostalgia look? Yes, this could also be a hit for college level teachers. Take Michael Jackson costume for example, or ask your co-teachers to join you to wear Beatles (the band) costumes. Kick off your nostalgic look with these costumes, your students will appreciate you for sure.
Teacher's Halloween costume are there for two important reasons: to laugh and enjoy the Halloween. Just enjoy the day with your students and you'll definitely won't regret wearing a Halloween costume.
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Sneak Peek
What did Nicole and I do at 7am in the morning on Valentine's day in New York you ask? We crawled out of bed incredibly early to catch a cab (while still being half asleep) to the beautiful Central Park, all covered in freshly fallen snow. We wanted to come early to avoid the overabundance of people and to be able to shoot this beautiful Carolina Herrera skirt in the middle of the park, which looked more like something out of a movie. I'm rarely impressed by snow (it could very well have something to do with the fact that I'm from Sweden...) but this time I actually have to admit that I absolutely loved it. So beautiful, so serene, so perfect. This is a little outtake from our shoot that morning that we wanted to share, it was just too cute of a moment not to! I can't wait to show you all of the photos.


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Denver's JaVale McGee Stumbles and Throws Ball Away [Video]
The Nuggets' JaVale McGee is an NBA enigma. He is equal parts human highlight reel, and equal parts human blooper reel. Last Friday against Indiana, he was the latter.
My favorite McGee moment, however, comes from last season. As a member of the Wizards, he decided to turn a fast break into the dunk contest.
JaVale McGee is a true NBA gem!


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This handbook teaches you to get customers to your site or app — and get them to buy.
It is widely recommended within Silicon Valley because it actually teaches growth marketing to a professional level. It doesn't waste time with self-evident advice.
If you're skeptical of marketing advice, know that I am too. This handbook is unique in that I have years worth of diverse data: I run thousands of experiments to grow clients for my ads agency, including Microsoft, Imperfect Produce, Perfect Keto, and Tovala.
Read this intro page to understand which growth strategy makes sense for your product.
This material applies to companies of every size and vertical.
I cover both introductory and advanced B2B and B2C tactics. Marketers of every skill level will encounter new material.
Unfortunately, this handbook is dry — because in-depth growth is technical. So I recommend bookmarking this and reading pages as they're relevant to your work.
It's important you learn growth hacking before deciding which idea to work on.
It will save you years of going down the wrong path. You should start by assessing whether your idea is actually suited for profitable and scalable user acquisition.
In this handbook, you'll learn which ad channels you can expect to succeed for your business, and how to increase customer purchase rates.
When you're done reading this, if you can't foresee these strategies working for the startup idea you're considering, you should consider scrapping your idea.
It's critical that managers know what growth entails so they can facilitate it.
Don't treat growth like a black box powered by your engineering and marketing departments. It's your most important business function.
This handbook helps you prioritize growth marketing projects based on their likely profitability and ease of implementation. Plus, it sheds light on a growth marketer's skill set so you can effectively assess hiring candidates.
(Many companies unknowingly hire "growth experts" who are brand marketers experienced only in creating brand voice and generating buzz. Unfortunately, brand marketers often lack knowledge of user acquisition and conversion optimization. This handbook will help you avoid unintentionally hiring them.)
Growth hacking is simply data-driven revenue maximization.
Growth "hacking" is a silly term. (It also goes by performance marketing and growth marketing.) I use it because it helps this handbook rank higher in Google.
Practice what you preach.
In reality, growth is not a series of "hacks." It's a rigorous methodology consisting of experimenting, collecting data, and leveraging human psychology. All in pursuit of directly maximizing revenue — not raising brand awareness or generating buzz.
Growth marketing (which is how I will now refer to the discipline) differs from traditionally undisciplined marketing in that growth marketing focuses on clearly measurable and directly profitable marketing initiatives.
For example, growth rarely concerns itself with billboards, radio ads, conferences, and other difficult-to-measure channels. (Try attributing a customer to the billboard they saw before buying. Try doing it when you have multiple billboards in a city.)
Growth leverages the scale and immediacy of the Internet to start small and discover how to make customer acquisition measurable and therefore capable of being proven financially viable.
Growth marketing accomplishes its objective by continually optimizing every step of the customer's journey.
This journey includes the ads they see, the website they later interact with, and the product they ultimately buy and engage with.
In other words, growth marketing involves three key disciplines:
Growth marketers must be familiar with all three disciplines. Or, at minimum, your team of growth marketers must collectively address these disciplines.
However, that knowledge alone is not enough to be successful. They must also possess a few unique skills.
To competently span the three disciplines, a growth marketer must be:
Let's elaborate on that last point. Resourceful entails being aggressively proactive:
This handbook will help establish the disciplines of creativity and resourcefulness.
Counterintuitively, "brand marketing" is typically ineffective at actually shaping your brand. Plus I've already mentioned it's not effective for growth marketing.
So, what is it good for? Keeping your message consistent and self-censored.
But most companies don't need to exercise this restraint early on. Because long-term public perception is more so the result of having a product people love. Consumer love begets organic brand building via word-of-mouth, and word-of-mouth supersedes the messaging your company pushes through brand marketing.
So before you hire a brand marketer, hire another product manager to make your product more enjoyable to use. And by extension more beloved.
When you're a mature company, consider hiring a brand marketer to maintain the aesthetic and tonal consistency of your marketing. This will help you stay singular and differentiated if you're in a crowded market.
But, before then, brand marketers typically slow growth marketing with arbitrary constraints. Consider how if brand marketing dictates that all marketing materials must have red backgrounds with white text, growth marketers won't feel empowered to experiment with different ad designs to uncover what the data says is the best aesthetic to encourage ad clicks that lead to purchases.
I spend hundreds of hours researching interesting topics. Then I write concise yet in-depth handbooks for free. There's more to it if you want to read about me.
I'm also the founder of the growth marketing agency, Bell Curve. We train individuals or companies to become professionals at growth marketing.
Before you dive into this handbook, I want you to develop an intuition for which growth tactics are likely to succeed for your company.
To do this, I must first introduce the growth funnel: the journey the customer takes while interacting with your advertising and your product. These are the steps:
Growth marketers know how these steps interrelate. For example, to spend marketing dollars efficiently, steps later in the funnel should be optimized first. Consider how when Engagement performs better, every dollar spent on Acquisition goes further.
So let's introduce each step.
(It's fine if some steps don't apply to your product.)
An acquisition "channel" is a place you source potential customers from. For example, ads, content marketing, and sales are all acquisition channels.
Channels separate into two broad categories:
This handbook teaches the most popular paid channel: Ads.
It also teaches two unpaid channels: Content Marketing and Sales. As I explain below, many companies find that only unpaid channels ever work for them.
When visitors are intrigued by what you're offering (either on your website or in-person), some of them "convert" into registered users or paying customers.
"Conversion events" are the business-critical events along your product's growth funnel. For example, a website visitor may first convert into a registered user. Then, after using your app for a while, they might then convert into a paying customer.
This handbook teaches conversion through Landing Pages, A/B Testing, and Ads.
So far, we've acquired users and converted them into registered users. But we also need them to engage with us if they're going to ultimately pay us.
So, when a visitor converts into a user, handhold them through your product experience so they become an educated user. Educated users are more likely to become engaged, repeat purchasers.
This handbook teaches engagement through User Onboarding.
Your revenue per customer can be maximized through cost reduction, conversion rate improvement, price optimization, and up/cross-selling other products.
This is a fascinating topic, but unfortunately pricing and cross-selling are outside the scope of this handbook.
You need to make your product so good that customers do your selling for you. It's the most cost-effective way to scale your business in the long-term.
Thankfully, you don't need to be a viral consumer app to accomplish this. Many B2B companies grow (albeit slowly) exclusively through word-of-mouth.
This handbook teaches referrals at the bottom of the User Onboarding page.
The growth funnel's linearity — for example, going from A to Z — doesn't need to constrain a user's journey toward conversion.
Their journey may in practice consist of repeatedly looping from A (advertising) to F (e.g. in-app engagement) before reaching Z, where paid conversion occurs.
For example, if a user fails to Engage with your app, you might send an educational email paired with ads pointing to your content. You can do this repeatedly until they're given the right content that propels them to the next step.
I call this the Retargeting Loop. (I'll talk more about retargeting later.)
Here's another loop: the Ecommerce Re-purchase Loop. In it, a user first goes from A to Z. Meaning, they bought your product. Afterward, you then email them a steep coupon to compel them to purchase yet again.
In other words, you're getting them to repeat steps B to Z. (A is skipped because they already know who you are.)
If you can trigger this loop repeatedly, you have a sound business model. And if you repeat this loop on autopilot, you're said to have a subscription business.
The key takeaways are:
This handbook focuses on user acquisition and conversion, so strategies for re-engagement and subscriptions are not covered. But I want you to know they exist.
This guide focuses on the first two steps of the funnel: Acquisition and Conversion.
So let's introduce the cold reality of acquisition.
Most companies never get paid acquisition channels to work. If they did, more companies would be successful.
Specifically, most companies are unable to profitably acquire paying users through ad networks such as Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, and Google AdWords.
If they do get one or more of these channels to work, it's a holy grail if paired with strong word-of-mouth: Paid channels let you scale big and fast while (unpaid) customer referrals reduce the average cost of customer acquisition.
Why is paid difficult to make work? Here's the criteria that determine success:
To succeed with ads, your product must cross a threshold for all three criteria:
You won't definitively know whether your product crosses these thresholds until you've spent a statistically significant amount of money on each ad channel. This is often around $1,000-$2,000 USD per channel.
(On the Ad Channels page, I'll walk you through each.)
If you fail to pass these three thresholds and ad channels are therefore not viable, you'll instead be relying on word-of-mouth, content marketing, PR, sales, and other unpaid channels that cost less per customer acquisition.
That's completely fine. Succeeding at paid acquisition isn't a necessity. It's just helpful because it lets you scale easily. And the only other easy channel to scale is virality. So if you can't make either work, you're in for a longer growth journey.
By the way, here's my podcast interview in which I dive much deeper into this.
Here's the success criteria for the four most effective unpaid channels:
Even companies that do get ad channels to work don't often get them working at scale for more than a few months.
Eventually, audiences may saturate and diminishing returns can kill profitability. So, you should plant seeds for other channels to succeed in the long-term:
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Rolls-Royce said its global vehicle sales rose 33 percent to a record 1,968 in the first six months, helped by strong demand in Europe.
June deliveries increased 25 percent to 390 cars, Rolls-Royce said in a statement
The BMW-owned ultraluxury brand said sales were up in all regions, with the strongest performance in Europe, where volume rose 60 percent.
Rolls-Royce is "on target for another record year in 2014," CEO Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes said in the statement.
Rolls-Royce has expanded its lineup beyond the Phantom sedan to include the smaller Ghost sedan launched in 2010 and Wraith coupe introduced in 2013. Mueller-Oetvoes has said the brand is also considering adding an SUV.
In 2013, the brand sold 3,630 vehicles.


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Derek Jeter, The Anti-narcissist
If you could select any living athlete from any sport to be a member of your team whom would you choose irrespective of what business or service industry you were in?
My choice is Derek Jeter.
For the few who don't recognize the name he is the short-stop, the Captain, the undisputed leader of the New York Yankees, #2.
Derek is a wholly selfless person.
On the baseball field he is a leader.
Standing in front of a room full of reporters after a loss Derek does not blame teammates.
He talks only of a need to improve including his own game. He is quick to compliment players on the opposing team. His message is positive and on focus. He never elevates himself by belittling others.
Jeter's work ethic is legendary.
At 38, considered way past prime for many athletes, especially as demanding a position as shortstop, his self effacing manner mirrors his lithe physique.
Quiet, unassuming, with immensely quick reflexes and his trademark inside out swing his perseverance is the hallmark of his success. Accomplishing a feat as no other Yankee in their 90 year history Jeter has more hits, 3308, than any other Yankee who wore those legendary Pinstripes including Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle of bygone eras.
Imagine your business with a Jeter as your Director of Sales, your plant manager, your Attorney, your Social Worker.
Every employer wishes for a team of All Stars, Most Valuable Players, leaders like Derek Jeter. That is, when they're not daydreaming about being Jeter themselves.
A man who is always about the team.
A player always ready to work and only misses a day or a month of work when he breaks his ankle, on the job.
A narcissist is a person preoccupied with his own greatness all absorbed in his ego that no other can be him. Jeter's preoccupation is the greatness of his work ethic. A work specimen that comes along once in a generation.
Jeter is Captain of the world famous New York Yankees. He could be captain today of virtually any group in any industry with little or no knowledge or skill of that profession. People follow a leader they believe in, they emulate, they trust. Leadership is all about inspiring and motivating, caring about others more than yourself, quick reflexes, keeping your mind and body in shape at the ready to work.
A leader today teaching us leadership skills for all time.


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Thursday, 12 September 2013
Do you have a 'mundane' face?
20 comments:
- elegancemaison said...
OMG I want this! Is it for sale? Pls email me if so. Cx
- 12 September 2013 at 21:27
- Vix said...
A mundane face - I love it! What a great book.
I don't ever read my horoscope, such nonsense - but isn't it odd that I always get on especially well with fellow fire signs despite my scepticism? x
- 12 September 2013 at 22:27
- Emma Kate at Painted Style said...
What a fantastic book! Just in time for hallowe'en! x
- 12 September 2013 at 22:54
- nilly said...
I THINK this is the book my friend and I used to giggle over while lying in the sun on the cliffs behind her seaside home - we'd study our palms and worry about the length of our life lines. Now the sad bit - hers was long & well defined, but she died at 19...
It is all fun but it is nonsense too.
- 12 September 2013 at 23:36
- Tammy Chrzan said...
I think I would like to have a read of that book just to compare it to what we think of all that spooky stuff now days! Good time to read that book... Near Halloween!!
I love old books, My oldest is about 120 years old!
Tammy x
- 13 September 2013 at 00:24
- Alessandra said...
such an incredible book!!!!!
xxxxxx Ale
- 13 September 2013 at 01:36
- haggiz said...
Is there really such a word as Jupiterian?! I don't read my horoscope but do seem to have traits attributed to my star sign. I do also get on best with other water signs, so am not completely sceptical Julie x
- 13 September 2013 at 07:08
- WILLIE........! =^..^= said...
I had to look up the word mundane...
It said...'Of this world..Worldly'.
(News to me).
But! Yep! I love ALL this fortune, spells, omens, superstitions etc!
It's a big thing in Sicily...There are loads of things you do~~or don't do at certain times! Life surrounds it!
And, it ALL comes from facts...From the past!!!
- 13 September 2013 at 08:13
- Greenorchid said...
I do love an old book find... my favourite find is" How to live with a neurotic dog" great drawings!! Cx
- 13 September 2013 at 10:16
- The Dainty Dolls House said...
Brilliant!! x
- 13 September 2013 at 10:25
- Louise McDonagh said...
A book like this would have me enthralled for hours. I am exceedingly superstitious though. X
- 13 September 2013 at 12:31
- rusty duck said...
RD agrees with VJ. Fun book though!
- 13 September 2013 at 14:07
- Plain Jane said...
I'm curious to know what sort of face I have - is there a section that specifies round and a bit wrinkly?? Great find x Jane
- 13 September 2013 at 20:04
- YeamieWaffles said...
This is amazing Jane, such an incredible thing, thanks for showing me this.
- 13 September 2013 at 20:19
- Annette said...
Hi!...As I really enoyed your blog, I'm a new follower!
Ciao dall'Italia
- 14 September 2013 at 07:12
- Flaming Nora said...
I have spent some time studying the facial types indicated. But realise i am so distracted by their hairstyles that I have no idea if I am mundane or not!
- 14 September 2013 at 10:40
- The Magical Christmas Wreath Company said...
Write your own horoscope, so much more fun.
Today you will be fabulous for the eighth consecutive day. Everyone will be ogling the outfit you put together so beautifully this morning agreeing that you really are the bees knees.
See, if mystic Meg can make it up, so can we:) Simples!
- 15 September 2013 at 12:30
- Barbara said...
What a fantastic book, a very lucky find!
- 16 September 2013 at 14:02
- the woolly dog said...
Ahh thank goodness... somebody else who salutes magpies, my arm goes up and down like a yoyo every time I take the dog for a walk in the park.
- 16 September 2013 at 22:42
- Kelly-Marie said...
Oh my goodness! I am tres jealous of this find. I actually have one simular from the 30's but the graphics aren't as good as this one. xx
- 30 September 2013 at 11:23


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You All Graduate!
I want to thank every one of you that have been reading Beer 101 over the last few years.
Congratulations! You all graduate.
Back in 2011 I started this column in concert with Sherbrooke Liquor Store to provide beer education to interested consumers. The plan was that I would write about core beer topics such as malt, hops, the brewing process, styles, history and the such to share the wonders of beer to a broader audience. It worked quite well. There was lots to discuss.
When we started the column six years ago, very few beer drinkers had a clue about how beer was made, its history or beer styles. Beer 101 was perfectly suited to raise the level of beer knowledge in the region. Today, however, consumers are much more knowledgeable. Frankly, you don't need me anymore.
That is why you all graduate. You know too much now.
I say all this as a lead-in to the news that this is the last Beer 101 column. I believe the time has come to gently lead it to its final resting place.
It has been a fun ride. As a writer it was an ideal situation. I got to write whatever I wanted and never once did Sherbrooke ask me to shill for them in any way (not that I would have if they asked) – they were totally onside with the educational focus of the column. I believe I have offered some interesting and useful insights into the world of beer in this column. It has, honestly, been one of my favourite outlets.
But it is time to move on.
Sherbrooke Liquor and I have decided to end Beer acheter viagra 101. It has done what it needed to do. I believe it played a role in educating the western Canadian beer consumer.
However, you have not seen the last of me on these (web)pages. While we have decided the Beer 101 concept has run its course, we both think there is still room for interesting beer commentary among people who are interested in Alberta's (and Canada's) best beer store.
In the near future look for a new project from me on this website. For the moment I will keep its exact content a secret (we have to create interest somehow!). But trust me that I think that you, the newly graduated beer aficionado, will appreciate what it will have to offer to your ongoing beer education.
And don't worry, I am not going to do something dumb like call the new column Beer 201 or something similar. Because you don't need a new beer course. You are too advanced for that. The new project will reflect your more advanced interests.
In fact, you can register to graduate from this extensive, life-long learning session. Register here for your official graduation.
Check this site in the coming weeks for my new column. I hope you will like it.
Jason Foster is an Alberta-based beer writer, educator and certified beer judge. He is the beer columnist for CBC Radio's Radioactive, Edmonton's Vue Weekly, Saskatoon's Planet S Magazine and writes regularly for a variety of magazines. He is also the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to craft beer on the prairies and beyond.


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Jim Fain Leaves of three - leave them be! This is the time of the year to be on the look out for Poison Ivy and Oak. While these shrubs do not bother some people, many find they make summertime miserable. The oil from the shiny leaves or stems or smoke from burning the roots can cause ugly, itchy blisters on the skin that can be spread by scratching, using a washcloth or by taking baths.
Jewelweed (Impatiens biflora) has a few other common names such as Wild Balsam, Spotted Touch-Me-Not, Slipperweed, Silverweed, Wild Lad's Slipper, Speckled Jewels and Quick-in-the-Hand. It is not commercially available from any major company as it is mostly considered a weed.
The brilliance of Mother Nature shines through as Jewelweed typically grows next to Poison Ivy/Oak. The old ones would grab a bunch, scruntch it up and rub it on hands and legs as a preventative. Science supports this as the oils and compounds in Jewelweed serve as a preventative and antidote. Trouble is you had to be Daniel Boone to find the herb. Until now!
A wise good ol' boy from down in Marshall started experimenting on his family with a homemade soap infused with Jewelweed. You see, his family, living out in the hills, would suffer the misery every year from clearing fence posts and brush. He remembered something about Jewelweed and started adding it to his lye soap. Worked like a charm, so he began making it for sale. Wash before you go out and after you come back in, he says in his instructions. Like I said, works like a charm.
Poison Ivy/Oak often can be avoided but sometimes exposure happens by accident. In addition to the Jewelweed soap, suggestions for dealing with exposure include the homeopathic Rhus Tox X6, Oregon Grape Root tea or Chamomile tea as a wash, and baking soda as a powder to dry the blisters. Quercetin works well to reduce itch. If the exposure is severe or in a delicate part of the body, prompt medical care is a very good thing. Wash by taking cool showers.


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The painting is pretty much done. I'm just starting on the groundwork to match my terrain boards.
I find the trick with buildings is knowing when to stop.
Due to my preference for blogging on mobile devices, the absence of an official Blogger app and recent problems with a third-party app I have switched my routine updating to a facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/paintingshedblog/ Copyright © 2014, Stephen Jones All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the creator.
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Flat Cap and Notes Music & Coffee had started a coffee cart in Fleet St, I mounted a Boris bike and cycled eastward on my lunch hour to suss it out. Situated in the picturesque courtyard of St Dunstan-in-the-West, just near the corner of Fleet St and Fetter Lane, Coffee by the Clock (so named because of the giant clock attached to the church) is run from a cute little red van. Not sure if it was because of the chilly ride but my flat white tasted really amazing - it's not as if I am a stranger to expertly poured Square Mile coffee and steamed milk, but this one just really hit the spot. As I sipped happily away I gazed on what is apparently the only known statue of Queen Elizabeth 1st - which originally adorned the old "Lud" gate on Ludgate Hill, then languished in storage in a pub basement and was finally mounted on the wall of St Dunstan's in 1839. Quite a story - and a very
Notes in particular - so I am delighted that they are bringing good coffee to the needy workers of Fleet Street.
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Chelsea and Arsenal target Giannelli Imbula will leave Porto this month, according to the player's agent.
The 23-year-old only joined the Portuguese giants last summer from Marseille but he's failed to settle at the club.
Arsenal were credited with an interest in the midfielder last summer, while Chelsea are believed to be keen on signing Frenchman.
And the player's agent has revealed that he is free to leave Porto this month with the club desperate to sell.
'We know that Porto want to sell Giannelli,' said Willy Ndangi.
'At the moment we haven't had any contact with other clubs, but we couldn't talk to some sides starting from Monday.'
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We've only gone and bloody done it!
A quarter of a million hapless souls have stumbled across this blog since I first started it back in August 2011. Honestly, I never ever thought I would get to such a massive milestone and without all of you? I wouldn't have made it this far.
A huge thank you to each and every one of my readers. You're all brilliant!
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The problem is, 13B takes its own sweet time to come to the point. Besides, you can't help notice the blemishes in the screenplay. What eventually comes across is a film that had the stamina to win the marathon, but which runs out of breath and starts huffing and puffing midway. Manohar [R. Madhavan], an upwardly mobile middle class Indian, moves into a new apartment — 13B on the 13th floor — with his family. From the first day in their new home, the women are hooked to a new TV show 'Sab Khairiyat'. The show is about a family eerily similar to their family, who have also just moved into a new house. As the TV show unfolds, the incidents that happen in the show start happening to Manohar and his family. Initially, a number of happy events take place and a lot of good things happen, both in the show and with Manohar's family. Then things take a turn for the worse and shocking incidents start happening in the TV show. Will the same happen to Manohar and his family? Will Manohar be able to solve the mystery in time before it consumes him and his entire family? Now let's look at the plusses: P.C. Sreeram's exceptional camerawork, the brilliant sound design and of course, an energetic background score that enhances the mood. Add to it a few individualistic sequences, which merit ample praise. The sequences with the septuagenarian neighbour and his dog are exceptional, especially the sequence when the dog refuses to enter the flat. But the screenplay goes back foot at regular intervals. In fact, the writer builds up the story really well, it reaches its crescendo and then… it blows it up. The viewer is curious to get to the bottom of the mystery and when you do reach there, you aren't too convinced with what actually unravels. If the television set had to spill the beans towards the end to the culprit, why didn't it do so to the main protagonist earlier? Also, a photo album is unearthed from the play area of the garden, but how come it wasn't unearthed when the mansion gave way to a high-rise apartment? Even the track involving Deepak Dobriyal had the potential to be a great 'twist in the tale', but the limitations in the writing show up during this chapter as well. Director Vikram Kumar has executed the material well, but he should've limited the running time of the film to 1.30 hours or maximum 1.45 hours, definitely not 2.28 hours [yes, that's the running time of this film]. Dialogues are, surprisingly, pedestrian. How could the director okay them in the first place? Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music is more of an intrusion. Ideally, it should've been a songless film. Madhavan does a commendable job. This is amongst his better works. Neetu Chandra is alright. Amongst supporting actors, Deepak Dobriyal's body language and performance leaves an impression. Poonam Dhillon gets no scope. Sachin Khedekar is wasted. Dhrtiman Chatterjee, the neighbour, is first-rate.
On the whole, 13B is interesting in parts, not in entirety. Also, as mentioned earlier, films of this genre, the world over, have a shorter duration [1.30 hours or 1.45 hours] and the approx. 2.28 hours' running time would test the patience of the viewer. At the box-office, with cricket matches on one hand and examinations on the other proving major oppositions, this scary movie would prove to be a scary proposition for its investors.


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Scrum Master Hiring: Demand Creates Supply and the Job Market for Agile Practitioners is No Exception
Maybe, "Agile" in general is a management fad and not trend at the moment. But what we can say for sure is that Scrum has become very popular for software development purposes. A seasoned Scrum master is nowadays in high demand. And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient.
If you are looking to fill a position for a Scrum master (or agile coach) in your organization, you may find the following 38+9 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. They are derived from my thirteen years of practical experience with XP as well as Scrum, serving both as product owner and Scrum Master as well as interviewing dozens of Scrum Master candidates on behalf of my clients.
So far, the this Scrum Master interview guide has been downloaded more than 14,000 times.