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Boom and bust cycle
Boom& bust cycle
Boom and Bust market cycles
The Boom and Bust Cycle: Opportunity Knocking?Remember that when the markets eventually correct, this correction will be broadcasted as a crash (that's the name of the game; scare the hell out of the masses) and it will be blamed on Trump. No, we are not getting sentimental on Trump. In reality, each president has only so much room to do what it is good for the people; most presidents don't even use this little leeway they are given but focus on themselves. As long as Fiat is around, every president will be bought and paid for. The big players have trillions at their disposal, so the dream of finding a great leader is just that, a "big dream". Mass psychology covers the aspect of mass manipulation very well and how the top players go out of their way to create situations that will alter the masses angle of observance. Alter the angle and you alter the outcome by altering what the masses deem to be true or false.
Freedom is an IllusionYou are only free to do things that you are allowed to do, and this includes the president. Reflect on that we will expand on it later; we already provided you with a big hint. In case you missed the hint is "fiat money". At the tactical investor, our focus is on dealing with reality and spotting new trends. Everything else falls into the idle gossip category. It might feel good to rant and rave about stuff like this, but it is a waste of energy. The focus should be on finding a way to play with the hand that you have been dealt.
The markets follow the same path; until Fiat is eliminated this talk about the world coming to an end is nothing but rubbish. All those self-proclaimed masters of wisdom are either dead, dying or becoming highly irrelevant. Focus on the trend for that is all that matters; it is the only way to maintain your health and your wealth.
This market will experience many corrections in the years to come, some will be mild, some will be strong, and some will appear to be devastating. If you follow the trend, you will know when to move into cash and when to jump in. From a "super trend perspective" every back-breaking correction (emphasis on back-breaking) should be viewed as a long-term buying opportunity.
Trump's presidency has made for some entertaining MomentsOverall the Trump presidency has made for some pretty damn good free entertainment; it is quite amusing to watch the other side react and equally amusing to watch the nonsense the Trump Team can come out with at times to defend their position. As time passes by, it appears that Trump is focussing more on himself than on making the country great. Who knows, he might suddenly change direction; he has a habit of doing the unexpected.
From a psychological perspective, you should hope that some shock announcement is made regarding "Trump"; it will scare the hell out of the masses, and the market will drop like a rock creating a lovely buying opportunity.


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Gold and silver were such a powerful
money during the founding of the
united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold
or silver coins can be "money" in America.
Letter to the IRS..
The Hard Facts Nobody Knows About The
Federal Reserve and the National Debt
Why You
Should Start A Bank Of Your Own
The Declining Dollar
The Fed
& Wilson
Dear We The People-Taxes
The Recalcitrant IRS
Recent IRS announcement
to ban recording at appeals hearings
16th Amendment was not ratified! The Income Tax is therefore illegal
Reference the Money
Trust Investigation conducted prior to 1913
Honesty' Forum Opens In DC
Congress has been put on formal notice
Hearing Questions Part 1
Hearing Questions Part 2
of Fiscal Integrity to our monetary system
The Sad
Story Of The Privately Owned Federal Reserve Bank
McFadden's Speech Before the Attempts on His Life, Part 1
Congressman McFadden's
Speech Before the Attempts on His Life, Part 2
Congressman McFadden's
Speech Before the Attempts on His Life, Part 3
John F. Kennedy
More Congressmen
Respond. More of same: Insolence!
REMONSTRANCE Chester L McWhorter
What is needed to
restore our Nations Fiscal Integrity
A Plan
Chief Justice Admits No
Failure to File Income Tax Law Exists!
Together, With Force
A Monetary
Trail---Follow the Bread Crumbs
The Injustice of Income
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.The Bankruptcy of The United
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in
chapter 11.. Members of Congress are
official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt
entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth
hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a
coroner's report that will lead to our demise.
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has
been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1,
Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and
insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint
Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause
dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official
capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and
Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal
Government exists today in name only.
receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International
Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now
operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers.
With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the
receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the
United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an
established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This
act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office
of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International
Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part:
"The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing
the United States."
Gold and silver were such a powerful money during the founding of the
united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold
or silver coins can be "money" in America. Since gold and silver coinage
were heavy and inconvenient for a lot of transactions, they were stored in
banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute. People traded
their coupons as money, or "currency." Currency is not money, but a money
substitute. Redeemable currency must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in
gold or silver money. Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) make no such promises,
and are not "money." A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the
federal United States government, not "money?' The federal United States
government and the U.S. Congress were not and have never been authorized by
the Constitution for the united states of America to issue currency of any
kind, but only lawful money, -gold and silver coin.
It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and
paper money substitute. One cannot get rich by accumulating money
substitutes, one can only get deeper into debt. We the People no longer have
any "money." Most Americans have not been paid any "money" for a very
time, perhaps not in their entire life. Now do you comprehend why you feel
broke? Now, do you understand why you are "bankrupt," along with the rest of
the country?
Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are unsigned checks written on a closed
account. FRNs are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through
inflation (devaluation of currency). when ever there is an increase of the
supply of a money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase
in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.
Inflation is an invisible form of taxation that irresponsible governments
inflict on their citizens. The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply
and movement of FRNs has everybody fooled. They have access to an unlimited
supply of FRNs, paying only for the printing costs of what they need. FRNs
are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities
(T-Bills) - a promise to pay the debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.
There is a fundamental difference between "paying" and
"discharging" a
debt. To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance (i.e. gold,
silver, barter or a commodity). With FRNs, you can only discharge a debt.
You cannot pay a debt with a debt currency system. You cannot service a debt
with a currency that has no backing in value or substance. No contract in
Common law is valid unless it involves an exchange of "good & valuable
consideration." Un-payable debt transfers power and control to the sovereign
power structure that has no interest in money, law, equity or justice
because they have so much wealth already.
Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central
banking, they have controlled the fates of nations.
The Federal Reserve System is based on the Canon law and the principles of
sovereignty protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In fact,
the international bankers used a "Canon Law Trust" as their model, adding
stock and naming it a "Joint Stock Trust." The U.S. Congress had passed a
law making it illegal for any legal "person" to duplicate a "Joint Stock
Trust" in 1873. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated post-facto (to 1870),
although post-facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution. [1:9:3]
The Federal Reserve System is a sovereign power structure separate and
distinct from the federal United States government. The Federal Reserve is a
maritime lender, and/or maritime insurance underwriter to the federal United
States operating exclusively under Admiralty/Maritime law. The lender or
underwriter bears the risks, and the Maritime law compelling specific
performance in paying the interest, or premiums are the same.
Assets of the debtor can also be hypothecated (to pledge something as a
security without taking possession of it.) as security by the lender or
underwriter. The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the
debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve
Act for ever paying the principle.
Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free
and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913)
"Hypothecated" all property within the federal United States to the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve, -in which the Trustees (stockholders) held
legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a
"beneficiary" of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the
federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties,
assets and labor of their "subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to
the Federal Reserve System.
In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United
States corporation all the credit "money substitute" it needed. Like any
other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral
and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the
federal United States didn't have any assets, they assigned the private
property of their "economic slaves", the U.S. citizens as collateral against
the un-payable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal
territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit
organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been
transferred as payment to the international bankers.
Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal
roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no
rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the
tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the
guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master
for another.
This has been going on for over eighty years without the "informed
knowledge" of the American people, without a voice protesting loud enough.
Now it's easy to grasp why America is fundamentally bankrupt.
Why don't more people own their properties outright?
Why are 90% of Americans mortgaged to the hilt and have little or no assets
after all debts and liabilities have been paid? Why does it feel like you
are working harder and harder and getting less and less?
We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is a
painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property, precious
liberties, and a way of life. Few of our elected representatives in
Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The federal United States is
bankrupt. Our children will inherit this un-payable debt, and the tyranny to
enforce paying it.
America has become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial
credit and its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an
undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most
corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back
your Country."
THE "ELITE" ARE OUT TO DESTROY REP TRAFICANT? He
is hitting the Socialist CFR/TC and the Communist UN where it hurts! LMsr. ]
Image: United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Added by: Chester L McWhorter Sr: Forming the Federal Reserve System are the
primary Federal Reserve "Banks" of: Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City,
Dallas, and San Francisco. These banks are not real banks..you cannot cash a
check there, open an account, etc. These "banks" are also holding companies
of smaller banks.
In all of this discussion about income tax, we should be ever mindful of the
fact that CONGRESS is the key. CONGRESS votes to spend the money. Congress
gives the IRS its power. Congress gives the IRS its OWN budget. Congress is
elected by the people. The IRS is A DECOY.
>>>>Disclaimer: This document may be used as you will except:
If you change anything in the text, remove my name and other Ident. You may
use it without my identification also if you wish...I only ask that people
read it and think...think...think. Sources/Ref's if not in the text will be
found on the last page of Doc 000.0.0.1 and 000.0.6. CLMsr.<<<<
We have a Constitution and our Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments) that
makes us free. Right? Then visit:
http://www.trimonline.org http://www.getusout.org
http://www.thenewamerican.com http://www.givemeliberty.org
Then take a look at these sites: http://www.dixierising.com
http://www.dixienet.org http://www.palmetto.org
http://www.southerncaucus.org http://www.spofga.org
http://www.southern-style.com http://www.nca.mybravenet.com
NOTE # 1: This is the FIRST doc in a string of about 37 regarding the
Income Tax, How it was illegally forced upon us, the collusion of various
nation banks, including The Bank of England, the Banks of Europe, the Banks
of the USA that make up the Non-Government organization known as the Fed and
the bankers themselves dedicated to making this a Socialist Nation. As David
Rockefeller reportedly said in 1973 when he and others formed the Trilateral
Commission, "We will have this a Socialist Nation by the end of the year
2000." Well, with the help of our past Communist President, he damned well
nearly did it. If Comrade Gore had been elected, it would be now! The last
doc in this series is a plan that was presented to President Bush when he
visited Florida recently. It was put directly into his hands. He has not
acted upon it. We The People must initiate a campaign of letters, faxes,
e-mails, and phone calls to him and others in our otherwise corrupt
government letting them know of our displeasure. For God and Country, Chet.
NOTE # 2: [ Should you wish to be removed from my mailing list, please
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Step 7. Then click on select a file. Here you may click on:
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34461. Ph: 352-344-9073. Fax: Same. E-mail: email@example.com
01 of 37 126.96.36.199 End
Quote: We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we [ the CFR ]
need is the right major crisis and the nation[s] will accept the New World
Order. End Quote. David Rockefeller: Founder and Honorary Chairman,
Council of the Americas; Chairman, Americas Society; Founder, Forum of the
Americas; Chairman, Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations [CFR]; Founder
and Honorary Chairman, Trilateral Commission [TC]; Chairman, The
Bilderbergs. [ How does the 11 Sept 2001 attack upon our country figure
into this? CLMsr ]
The Bankruptcy of the United States is a 38 part document.
See Contents on left column.
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The Short Road To Chaos And Destruction
An Expose of the Federal Reserve Banking System
The End of Ordinary Money, Part I
Kennedy, the Federal Reserve and Executive Order 11110
The Federal Reserve Is A PRIVATELY OWNED
"The American Dream" Fire 'em all!
Mathematic PROOF: Federal Reserve CAUSED Great
Part 1: Mathematic PROOF the Federal Reserve CAUSED the Great Depression.
Part 2: Congressman Louis T. McFadden's famous 1932 Congressional Address.
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Now for your traning, have 2 - 3 players like Kyle Waters above. 17 year olds with med/comp stats. And train them. 2 bowl, 1 stam, 1 field would be good for Kyle waters.
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text: FRLT To Create Local Task Force26 September 2008 LARNE TASK TEAM ESTABLISHED TO TACKLE ANTI-SOCIAL DRINKINGA special task team has been created to tackle the issue of anti-social and underage drinking in Larne involving local publicans, off licences, the PSNI and Larne Borough Council. This was the outcome of a special meeting held at the Council [Tuesday 14 October] organised by the Federation of the Retail Licensed Trade and the PSNI. Announcing this move, Colin Neill, Chief Executive of the Federation of the Retail Licensed Trade said: �The time has come to say enough is enough and we need to take action. The issue of underage and anti-social drinking is one that blights our society and has serious health, economic and social implications. Speaking also as a parent and a local resident I feel that this is the first step to tackling this problem once and for all. I am delighted with the response we have had this evening and the commitment we have received from the local publicans and off licence traders, along with the PSNI and local representatives at a Council and community level. I believe that working together in targeting young people in the area with the assistance of the local community and the schools and colleges we can make a difference. Publicans and off-sales across the area who are members of the Federation of the Retail Licensed Trade have signed up to a strict code of practice which prohibits the sale of alcohol to those perceived to be underage or unfit to consume it. In addition they operate the Challenge 21 initiative whereby those who may be over 18 but look under 21 will be required to produce recognised forms of identification such as a driving licence, passport or an electoral identity card for example. If they cannot do this they will not be sold alcohol. We have put a great deal of effort and resources to date into training for bar, door and off-licence staff to ensure they can properly identify minors and make sure they are not able to access alcohol� said Mr. Neill. The Federation has also set up a confidential phone-line to enable people to report any trader who has sold alcohol to minors. All reports will be investigated by the FRLT and anyone found to be supplying alcohol to minors will be met with a zero tolerance approach by the FRLT. Showing his support for the creation of this team, East Antrim DUP MLA Alastair Ross said: �This is not just a problem for the police, licensees and politicians, it is an issue which affects society as a whole and many people have a role to play, most crucially being the parents. We would appeal to them to do all they can to ensure their child does not seek to obtain alcohol. We need to ensure that alcohol becomes less accessible to young people and there is adequate enforcement in place to deal with this issue.� I would urge parents, youth groups, community associations, schools and others to take a more active role in society and do their utmost to ensure that youths� under the age of 18yrs are not obtaining alcohol. I welcome the establishment of this group and offer the membership my full support in tackling this issue for the betterment of the people of Larne and beyond� said Mr. Ross. Backing the establishment of the Task Team, Inspector Noel Rogan, Sector Manager of the Larne PSNI said: �This is a time for action, words are no longer enough. By creating this task force we are demonstrating that society has had enough of the anti-social behaviour and we are coming together to take the message to the small minority of young people and rogue traders engaging in this sort of activity that this will no longer be tolerated. We will be bringing the message to the schools and the street corners that underage and binge drinking can cause untold health, financial and social problems that may not only affect you now but also in later years. It should also be noted that there are a wide range of ways in which minors get alcohol with many getting adults to purchase it for them. Adults caught doing this will be prosecuted and face a fine of up to �5000 and potentially up to 6 months in prison� said Inspector Rogan. Anyone who suspects that a licensee is contravening the Code of Practice should contact the Federation on (028) 9032 7578. All calls will be treated in the strictest of confidence.


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Those cunning secularists, perverting the "reason for the season"! We hear the same complaints every year, from Fox News to the Vatican, that "Christ is being taken out of Christmas," about the "War against Christmas" (TM) -- about the "widespread revolt" against "Christian values" and "Christian symbols" –about the prevalence of "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas" greetings.
Here's what I say to those complainers: Get a life. Learn some history. And try a Christmas joke:
Q: "What's the difference between God and Santa Claus?"
A: "There is no God."
Ha ha ha. The harsh fact is, customers, there is no God, and Christ was never even in Christmas --except in fiction and by order of the first Popes.
None of the four gospels gives any notion of what time of year (let alone in what year) the supposed Nativity occurred. Only two gospels mention the virginity of Mary and only one has any mention of a "manger" [i.e., a trough]. Nowhere is there any record of a "stable." Wise men and shepherds are likewise very unevenly distributed throughout the discrepant accounts. So that the placement of a creche surrounded by a motley crew of humans and animals has no more Scriptural warrant than does The Life of Brian. Moreover, the erection of this exhibit near the turn of the year is actually a placation of the old Norse gods of the winter solstice - or "Yule" as the pre-Christians sometimes called it.
I myself [says Christopher Hitchens] repose no faith in any man-made text or made-man redeemer, so when it's Christmas I say "Merry Christmas" with a clear conscience, as I respect Ramadan and Passover, and also because "Happy Holidays" is so thin and insipid. I don't mind if Christians honor the moment by displaying, and singing about, reindeer (a hard species to find in the greater Jerusalem/Bethlehem area). Same for the pine and fir trees that also don't grow in Palestine. I wish everybody joy of it.
And so do I. I just wish the Christians would leave off bashing us over the head with their myth—and their values.
Jesus wasn't even born in December, let alone at Christmas time: he was born in July* -- which makes him a cancer**. Just like religion.
And God doesn't even like Christmas trees, for Chrissake!
Historians themselves know the "reason for the season," and it's not because of anything that happened away in a stable at a time opf a non-existent census. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury knows the truth, conceding a couple of Christmasses ago that the Christmas story and the Three Wise Men - the whole Nativity thing itself -- is all just "a legend."
And I like myths and legends. I'm even happier when we remember they're stories, not historical accounts.
Fact is, 'Christmas' itself was originally not even a Christian festival at all. The celebration we now all enjoy was originally the lusty pagan festival to celebrate the winter solstice, the festival that eventually became the Roman Saturnalia. This time of year in the northern hemisphere (from whence these traditions started) is when days stopped getting darker and darker, and started once again to lengthen. This was a time of the year for optimism. The end of the hardest part of the year was in sight (particularly important up in Lapland, the pagan home of the Norsemen where all-day darkness was the winter rule), and food stocks would soon be replenished.
All this was something worth celebrating with enthusiasm, with gusto and with plenty of food and drink and pleasures of the flesh -- and if those Norse sagas tell us anything, they tell us those pagans knew a thing or two about that sort of celebration! They celebrated a truly Salacious Saturnalia.
One popular celebration involved having a chap put on the horns and skin of the dead animal being roasted in the fire (worn with the fur side inside and the blood-red side outside ), and giving out gifts of food to revellers. This guy represented Satan, and the revellers celebrated beating him back for another year by making him a figure of fun (I swear, I'm not making this up). Observant readers will spot that the gift-giving and the fur-lined red outfit (and even the name, almost) are still with us in the form of Santa. So Happy Satanmas, Santa!
SUCH WERE THE celebrations of the past. But the Dark Age Christian do-gooders didn't like the pagan revels. Instead of bacchanalia, these ghouls of the graveyard wanted instead to talk about suffering and their sores, and to spread the misery of their religion worldwide; instead of throwing themselves into such lewd and lusty revels, they thought everyone should be sitting at home mortifying their flesh – and very soon they hit upon a solution: first they stole the festivals, and then they sanitised them. Instead of lusty revels with Satan and mistletoe, we got insipid nonsense around a manger. (Just think, the first 'Grinch' who stole Christmas was really a Pope!)
So given this actual history, it's somewhat churlish of today's sanitised saints of sobriety to be complaining now about history reasserting itself and claiming Christmas back.
AND THE VERY BEST OF Christmas is still very much pagan. The mistletoe, the trees, and the presents; the drinking and eating and all the red-blooded celebrations; the gift-giving, the trees and the decorations; the eating and the singing; the whole full-blooded, rip-roaring, free-wheeling, overwhelming, benevolent materialism of the holiday -- all of it all fun, and all of it fully, one-hundred percent pagan. Says Leonard Peikoff in 'Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial', the festival is "an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life." I'll drink to all that, and then I'll come back right back up again for seconds. Ayn Rand sums it up for mine, rather more benevolently than my brief introduction might have led you to expect:
"The secular meaning of the Christmas holiday is wider than the tenets of any particular religion: it is good will toward men—a frame of mind which is not the exclusive property (though it is supposed to be part, but is a largely unobserved part) of the Christian religion.
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: 'Merry Christmas'—not 'Weep and Repent.' And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance....
"The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying is good for business and good for the country's economy; but, more importantly in this context, it stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street decoration put up by department stores and other institutions—the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors—provide the city with a spectacular display, which only 'commercial greed' could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle.
And so say all of us. I wish you all, wherever you are a Cool Yule, a Salacious Saturnalia, and a very Happy Christmas.
I'll see you back again in the New Year.
Be as good as you can be while I'm gone.***
PS: Here's some related Hot Facts from the Hot Facts Girl.
* Yes, this is simply a rhetorical flourish. Jesus' birth may have happened in March. Or in September -- or not at all -- but it certainly did not happen in December. More on that here.
** "A cancer. Like religion." Think that's harsh? You should try Landover Baptist's Bible Quizzes. Or Sam Harris's 'Atheist Manifesto.' Ouch! [Hat tip for both, good old Stephen Hicks] And, I confess, I pinched the quip from Australian comedy team The Doug Anthony All Stars.
*** Yes, I'll be gone, but you'll not be totally forgotten. Bernard Darnton and Doc McGrath have columns still to come. Jeff Perren can never keep his fingers too far from his keyboard. And, unfortunately, our place in Matakana does have internet access . . .


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Last 10: Vancouver 2-5-3; Edmonton 2-6-2
Season series: This is the third of five games between the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers. Vancouver has already claimed a pair of four-goal victories on home ice. Nine different Canucks have scored a goal and 14 have registered at least one point. Roberto Luongo has stopped 40 of Edmonton's 42 shots.
Big story: Luongo is back again for the Canucks, and though he's played only two games since originally getting hurt on Dec. 22 both have been tremendous efforts. He made 46 saves in a Jan. 4 loss to the Los Angeles Kings and then was back on the shelf until this past Saturday, when he turned in 31 stops in a shootout win against the Calgary Flames.
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Canucks: Since missing four games during the 2003-04 season due to an abdominal strain, Vancouver center Henrik Sedin has played in 679 consecutive games. However, he's failed to finish each of the past two due to a suspected rib injury and his ironman streak will come to an end Tuesday.
Canucks assistant coach Mike Sullivan confirmed Monday that Sedin, who has 40 points in 50 games (nine goals, 31 assists), will not be in the lineup in Edmonton.
"The fact he's been able to play that many games consecutively is just a testament to his determination and how tough he is," Sullivan said. "Him and [twin brother] Daniel both play in the hard areas of the rink on a consistent basis because they have the puck so much."
Sedin's offensive ability will be missed on a team that was shut out twice and limited to a single goal once in the three games prior to Saturday. The Canucks also were without forward Mike Santorelli (shoulder) against the Flames.
Oilers: This is the start of a three-game homestand for Edmonton, which had a rousing 4-3 overtime win against the Pittsburgh Penguins in its most recent time out at Rexall Place, but followed that up by getting swept on a four-game road trip.
The Oilers did enough to squeeze a point out of a 3-2 overtime loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday afternoon when David Perron drew them even with two minutes left in regulation. They gave up 39 shots on goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, though, and average nearly 32 shots allowed per game, in the bottom third of the NHL.
"Once we learn to enjoy the hard parts of the game, we'll be much better," defenseman and team captain Andrew Ference said in the Edmonton Journal.
Who's hot: Canucks forward Ryan Kesler had a goal and an assist against the Flames. … Oilers forward Jordan Eberle has goals in consecutive games.
Injury report: Santorelli, defensemen Ryan Stanton (ankle) and Andrew Alberts (concussion), and forward Jordan Schroeder (ankle) are on injured reserve. … Edmonton forward Nail Yakupov (head) missed the previous game and forward Ales Hemsky (foot) missed the past two. Also sidelined are defensemen Philip Larsen (illness) and Corey Potter (groin).


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Mark Riley was 53 years old when he lost a job as a grant writer for an Arkansas community college. "I was stunned," he said. "It happened on my daughter's 11th birthday." His boss blamed state budget cuts.
That was almost three years ago and he still hasn't found steady work. Mr. Riley, whose unemployment benefits ran out 14 months ago, says his long and fruitless search is proof employers won't hire men out of work too long....


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I was reading this answer to an amusing comic related question: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/166891/35132 and I understand that in the linked answer, the examples of how four may be expressed used base (expressed in decimal!!) is 10, 4, 3 for 4, 10, 11.
What I can't figure out is what base would need to be used for his last example (100) to equal 4 in decimal?
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text: Divers on Training Exercise Find Submerged Cars Full of Human Remains » RYOT News FOSS, Okla. (AP) For more than a generation, this rural community has been haunted by a mystery: What happened to three teens who headed off to a high school football game in the early 1970s and were never seen again? Tim Porter, right, talks with Beckham County Sheriffs Deputy J. Kessel, left, after giving a DNA sample at the scene where two cars were found in Foss Lake, in Foss, Okla., Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Police believe they may finally have an answer after divers on a training exercise discovered a car containing skeletal remains in a murky lake. Divers also recovered a second vehicle containing bones, and investigators were searching Wednesday for other cold cases that might match the grim discovery. The cars were found not far from a marina, but Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples said it was no surprise that the murky waters held a secret. This lake isnt crystal clear. Its a typical western Oklahoma lake with a lot of silt in it. The visibility is only 6 to 12 inches on a good day, Peoples said. Well consider it a mystery until we prove otherwise. The sheriff said it was entirely possible that people simply drove into Foss Lake and drowned. We know that to happen, even if you know your way around. It can happen that quick, he added. This Sept. 17, 2013, photo shows two cars recovered from Foss Lake, Okla. The Oklahoma State Medical Examiners Office says authorities have recovered skeletal remains of multiple bodies in the Oklahoma lake where the two decades-old cars were pulled from the water by a dive team. (AP Photo/Daily Elk Citian, Laura Eastes) The sheriff said he was confident the dive teams had found the teens because one of the cars was a Chevrolet Camaro that appeared to match the description of the vehicle the two boys and one girl were in when they vanished in 1970. The other vehicle was a Chevrolet from the early 1950s. We thought it was just going to be stolen vehicles, and thats not what it turned out to be, obviously, Highway Patrol spokeswoman Betsy Randolph said. The origins of the second vehicle were less clear. It was found 50 feet from the end of a boat ramp. Tim Porter of Enid said he believed the remains could be those of his grandfather, John Albert Porter, who disappeared along with two other people in 1969. Forty-something years of wondering who or why, Porter said. If it is my grandfather in there, its a gift. The sheriff said Wednesday he was not sure whether the cars held five or six bodies. The state medical examiners office believed the remains of six people were recovered. The bones were being sent to the medical examiners office for identification and to determine the cause of death. Divers had found three skulls as of Tuesday evening. They planned to continue looking for more remains, Randolph said. Authorities hoped the discoveries offer some relief to families who may have gone decades wondering about the fate of a missing loved one. Were hoping these individuals, that this is going to bring some sort of closure to some families out there who have been waiting to hear about missing people, Randolph said. If thats the case, then were thrilled.


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I have a renewed passion for art in my life. When I was a young girl, I loved sketching, sculpting and painting. My creativity with design at this early stage in my life was so second nature to me that my life and art were intertwined.
In my late teen years, I expanded my talents not only with art but also in the world of fashion. I not only designed garments for a high-end women's boutique, but also later had a hand with the patterns and finally modeling my creations.
Like all artists and designers, in my college years, I study the great masters of antiquity as well as architecture. I considered myself a renaissance woman. Nothing was impossible and the only limitation on creation was I.
However, as we all know, life offers all of us choices or paths to be taken. Being a free spirit, love and eventually my family became my desires. Though my art still existed, my family was my life's passion.
As the years passed, my life changed in so many ways. The wonderful people, places and experiences that I have had will be penned in my memoirs and with my paintings. I have now come full circle in my life. My art has again become center stage. Now, it is time to raise the curtains in this latest chapter of my continuing adventure and again let my love of life expressed in my creations.


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At first blush, the notion that a Jacksonville TV station is reporting that the Jags will make a play for Tim Tebow before Thursday's trade deadline made sense. It felt like a trial balloon from owner Shahid Khan, who likely realizes that they can stink without Tebow — or they can stink with him.
Having Tebow means filling up EverBank Field for five more home games, even though they've lost their three games to date there by a combined score of 95-20.
It also makes it easier to market the team to London, where Khan could be concerned about his ability to sell out Wembley Stadium a month after the Steelers and Vikings play there.
But a source with knowledge of the situation confirms to PFT that there's nothing to it. Though the source wouldn't rule it out for next year, it's highly unlikely now.
So what happened? As the source explained it, Tebow is in the Jacksonville area during the Jets' bye week, which may have sparked a chain of rumors that at some point began to feel like something more.
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Remember pink slime? That disgusting neon tube of "beef" that it turns out was in all of our Big Macs and cafeteria burgers and other ground beef? Well, thank goodness, it's fast becoming a thing of the past. After McDonald's and other fast food places banned it from their burgers and then the USDA decided schools could opt out of using it, Beef Products Inc.—distinguished manufacturer of the gunk—has announced it is suspending operations at three of their four pink slime plants. Boy, having a job there must not be a pleasant thing to have to explain at a dinner party.
Despite the totally public revulsion at their product, the company's president, Craig Letch, remains optimistic:
"We feel like when people can start to understand the truth and reality then our business will come back. It's 100 percent beef."
Yes, 100 percent beef doused in ammonia, which doesn't have the same natural-sounding flair. Sorry, Mr. Letch, but I'd say as long as your product still resembles a pale pink meat snake, people aren't going to be clamoring to shove it down their gullets any time soon. Maybe you ought to start shaping it into little Easter bunnies and selling them as Meat Peeps?


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Tunisian Islamists riot after 'insulting' art show
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Tunisian authorities declared a night-time curfew Tuesday in the capital and seven other cities and suburbs in the wake of riots by Islamists angered by an art exhibit they say insults Muslims. The curfew ends Wednesday at 5 am.
REUTERS - Thousands of Salafi Islamists, angered by an art exhibition they say insults Muslims, rampaged through parts of Tunis on Tuesday, raising religious tensions in the birthplace of the Arab Spring and piling pressure on the moderate Islamist government.
Protesters hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police stations, a court house and the offices of secular parties in some of the worst clashes since last year's revolt ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and launched uprisings across the Arab world.
Salafis, who follow a puritanical interpretation of Islam, blocked streets and set tyres alight in the working class Ettadamen and Sidi Hussein districts of the capital overnight.
By morning, protests had spread to a number of residential districts in the capital and to other cities, posing one of the biggest threats yet to Tunisia's democratic transition.
Stone-throwing youths stopped trams from passing through the capital's Intilaqa district where demonstrators entered mosques and used the loudspeakers to call on Tunisians to defend Islam.
Some 2,500 Salafis were still clashing with police in the area by Tuesday evening, an interior ministry official said, adding that 162 people had been detained and 65 members of the security forces had been wounded trying to quell the riots.
The interior and defence ministries imposed a night time curfew on the capital and seven other areas after Interior Minister Ali Larayedh told parliament he expected the riots to continue in the coming days, stretching security forces.
The clashes came a day after the Spring of Arts exhibition in the upscale La Marsa suburb provoked an outcry from some Tunisians who say it insulted Islam. The work that appears to have caused most fury spelt out the name of God using insects.
"These artists are attacking Islam and this is not new. Islam is targeted," said a youth, who gave his name as Ali and had removed his shirt as he prepared to confront police in Ettadamen. "What added fuel to the flames is the government's silence," said Ali, who did not describe himself as a Salafi.
Officials of the Islamist-led government have condemned the art works that they say were intended to insult and provoke, but said there was no excuse for the outbreak of violence that appeared planned and coordinated and could undermine economic recovery as the tourism and harvest seasons get underway.
Larayedh vowed the police would confront any more acts of violence, which he blamed on a mix of violent Salafis, criminal gangs and Ben Ali loyalists seeking to undermine the revolution.
"We have entered a phase in which we may see similar incidents and expect it to continue in the coming days and for the number of arrests to increase," he told parliament.
"These groups will not succeed no matter what they do... We will confront those that attack national security."
Difficult position
The violence has raised tough questions about the limits of freedom in the new Tunisia and fuelled fears among Tunisians of a slide into instability. It has also put the ruling moderate Islamist party Ennahda in a tough position as it struggles to satisfy conflicting demands.
While Islamists did not play a major role in the revolution, the struggle over the role of Islam in government and society has since emerged as the most divisive issue in Tunisian politics and several clashes have erupted in recent months, some of them involving attacks on alcohol vendors.
Salafis, some of whom are sympathetic to al Qaeda, want a broader role for religion in the new Tunisia, alarming secular elites who fear they will seek to impose their views and ultimately undermine the nascent democracy.
Some secularists had attended the offending exhibition, saying Tunisians had the right to artistic freedom, and they have also come under physical attack.
A labour union office in the northwestern city of Jendouba had been set alight by Salafis overnight while the offices of secular parties nearby were attacked, Larayedh said, in an apparent effort to inflame tensions that are already bubbling between the Islamist-led government and the secular opposition.
Clashes also broke out in the coastal city of Sousse, where an art centre came under attack by Salafis. A secular party came under attack in the border town of Tataouine and protesters blocked the road from Tunis to the city of Bizerte, 60 km away.
Larayedh said the violence appeared organised and some of it may have been inspired by a recent statement from al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, rather than simply an art exhibition.
On Sunday, Zawahri called on Tunisians to defend Islamic law from Ennahda, which won the first post-revolutionary election in North Africa in October and has said it would not seek to impose sharia in the new constitution that is being drawn up.
The audio recording, released on Islamist websites, said Ennahda, which leads Tunisia's government in coalition with two secular groups, had betrayed the religion.
Secularists say Ennahda has been too lenient with Salafis, many of whom were jailed on terrorism charges before the revolution, giving them the confidence to step up their demands.


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BERKELEY — Police are investigating a fatal collision at the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Rose Street where a motorcyclist was hit by a car Wednesday afternoon.
Berkeley police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats said the driver of the motorcycle, a man in his early 30s, died after being taken to an area hospital. His name was not released pending notification of his family.
Coats said the female driver of the car was not injured and is cooperating with investigators. Drugs or alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the collision, she said.
Coats said investigators have not yet determined which directions the driver of the car or the motorcyclist were heading in when the collision occurred.
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Specializing in artisan, Neapolitan-style pizzas in Brooklyn since its location at 187 Bedford Ave. opened on October 20, 2004, owner Michael Ayoub said it was no coincidence that they opened the doors to the new location on May 20, 2013.
"August 20 is my daughter's birthday," Ayoub said. "That 20 number worked out so well, so we shot for it again."
The menu offers pizza enthusiasts an array of authentic ingredients like handmade soppressata, fresh buffalo mozzarella and parmigiano.
The menu is broken down into three generational categories.
The first generation are pizzas from his family's roots in Naples, and according to Ayoub, they are the only style the Italian government consider "pizza." The second generation of pizzas are a variety of regional pizzas that pass the Denominazione d'Origine Controllata (DOC) rating system, or the controlled designation of origin.
Authentic Sicilian pizzas are made with anchovies and olives; pizzas from Parma incorporate prociutto, and pizzas from the region of Poya are typically made with sausages.
In all, Fornino offers 33 different kinds of pizza.
"The third generation are my concoctions," said the classically trained French and Italian chef. "I bring a new sensibility to pizza."
Born and raised in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, Ayoub said he always wanted to start a pizza place with his mother's maiden name, Fornino, which mean's "little oven" in Italian.
"We arguably are the first ones who brought this artisanal pizza to a craze in New York," he said.
For inspiration, Ayoub remembers eating at the Pizza Wagon on 86th Street and 4th Avenue in Manhattan when he was a kid, and has taken his love for the city and pizza and created something he is proud to serve.
"The recipe is unique for the fact that the classic Neopolitan pizza is too wet for me, so growing up in New York that was the New York pizza," he said. "I've kind of bridged the gap and blended the two styles of pizza into this one."
This summer, Ayoub is looking forward to opening his next location, Fornino The Art and Science of Pizza, at Brooklyn Bridge Park at the Pier 6 restaurant space.
Regina Meyer, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, said she is looking forward to welcoming the expansion along with a number of other additions to the park.
"We are thrilled to welcome Luke's Lobster, No. 7 Sub, Ample Hills Creamery and Fornino, The Art & Science of Pizza to the park this summer," Meyer said. "Brooklyn Bridge Park is quickly becoming a destination for the foodie in all of us."
No. 7 Sub and Luke's Lobster opened over the weekend at the Smoke Stack building.
As for Greenpoint, neighboring restaurants are thrilled to have a fresh face.
Krystyna Dura, owner of Christina's Polish Restaurant, has been on the block for nearly 20 years, and says that while the neighborhood has changed from a more Polish population, she is thrilled to see younger foot traffic on the block.
"Mike is very nice and it is a very nice restaurant," Dura said. "The younger people love to go eat out and that's a good opportunity for his business. They are very friendly and I wish him only the best," she said. "I was there for opening night and everything looks great."


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Glacier Country: Pure New Zealand Wilderness at its very best
From the Mountains to the Sea, Glacier Country is home to some of New Zealand's most iconic scenery
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New Zealand's pure wilderness at its very best. From the mountains to the sea, Glacier Country offers the visitor a smorgasbord of experiences, including unsurpassed views of New Zealand's two highest mountains Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, the chance to encounter the lowland rainforest and pristine wetlands of Westland National Park and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area. Of course, the mighty Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers will be at the heart of any Glacier Country experience. The facts behind these New Zealand icons are fascinating.
Over thousands of years, the Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers have carved dramatic glacial valleys. Today these glaciers continue to flow from high in the mountains down to temperate rainforest. These glaciers are unique relics of the last Ice Age.
How are the Glaciers formed?
South Westland lies in the path of a band of wind known as the 'roaring forties.' The weather that flows on to the West Coast is forced to rise over the Southern Alps, thereby cooling and dropping most of its moisture as rain and snow. This process causes approximately 30 metres of snow to fall on the neve, or catchment area of the glacier every year. Snow that is compacted on the neve forms blue glacier ice that is funnelled down the valleys of the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers. This flows under its own momentum, forming these 'rivers of ice' which are easily accessible from the Waiho (Franz Josef) and Cook (Fox) river beds.
Although much melt occurs from the surface of the glaciers at lower elevations (the ablation zone), this high snowfall continues to push ice down the valleys at very high rates. This is aided by basal sliding, caused by a layer of water beneath the glaciers, formed by the weight of the ice pushing against the valley floor. Both of these factors cause the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers to have flow rates that are up to 10 times faster than most valley glaciers.
The glaciers flow over large bedrock steps on the valley floors. This causes the ice to extend and break up, forming steep icefalls that are mazes of crevasses and pinnacles of ice. Spectacular views of this dramatic landscape are gained from short valley walks to the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier terminal faces, or by taking a guided walk on to the ice with Franz Josef Glacier Guides or Fox Glacier Guiding.
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Summary: Every industry, company and business process is different. That´s why it is so important that an ERP system can be customized to specific needs. But what about personalization on user level? Here´s how we do it in Openbravo 3.
Openbravo uses a model-driven approach to describe functionality in business rules (rather than code), making it easy to configure and extend. Together with modularity, open source technology and a modern web-based architecture, Openbravo 3 is easy to customize and extend at any point in time.
This is all great stuff but, as often happens with ERP implementations, the end user is often overlooked. As soon as the smart suited implementation consultants have left the building, the real users start entering their sales orders, goods shipments and payments only to realize that the windows they need to complete are not exactly how they wanted it. Maybe the first couple of fields that are shown on the form are not important to the user because the defaults are always the same. Or the order in which to fill out the form is just a bit different than how the implementation consultants had prepared it. Or the default grids show all records so every time again the same filter needs to be applied. All small things that add up and can make a difference in being highly productive or being annoyed.
So how do we solve this? Do we need to call in the guys who implemented the ERP?
The solution is much easier. Openbravo 3 now offers personalization of windows, grids and filters on user, role, client and organizational level. With form & grid personalization plus the ability to save views including filters and layout, users can fine tune their environment. Let´s see how you can use this.
Personalizing Forms
Launch the Form Builder by clicking the wrench button in the toolbar. On the left hand side you see a list of the available fields for the window. You can drag & drop these fields in the list to change the order in which they appear on the form and set their visibility (of course this is only when a field is not mandatory to fill out). Many forms have different sections and it is recommendable to move less-frequently used forms into the More Information section, so they won´t bother you at first sight. You can also move fields into the status bar area. They will then appear as read-only values on top of the form which is ideal for attributes such as totals or document status.
The preview pane on the right updates with every change, showing you how the real form is going to look like. In the little properties pane on the bottom left you can set the width and the height of the fields. You can also decide here whether the field should start on a new row and whether it will need to have the first focus.
Personalizing Grids
Grids can be personalized in the following ways:
- Column visibility (right mouse click on column header)
- Column order (drag & drop column headers to a new position)
- Column widths (drag the borders of the column header)
These settings are stored on closing the tab. So next time you open a tab of a certain window type you will get the same grid state as how you have left it. This is convenient in many but not all cases. That´s why we now also introduce saving views.
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Saving Views stores grid and form settings, column filters and even the entire layout of the screen, for example the position of the splitterbar between the header and lines. So imagine that you rearranged your grid and it´s perfectly adapted to your task. You even added some column filters, for example you only want to see invoices that are more than 21 days overdue for organization East Coast. Now you save all this in one go using a name. Now when you need to work on another task that needs other filters and grid or form settings, you can easily retrieve this view later.
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Sales Confidence
(Video) Thoughts that are Killing Your Sales
Tips for combating negative thoughts.
Sales requires a positive and resilient mindset. Anyone in sales needs to watch their thoughts carefully or risk feeling burnt out and lacking in drive, something that is essential in selling.
Sales Confidence
How to Get Clients When You Hate Asking for Business
Three ways to trade cold calling for warm leads.
Whether you're starting a business or growing an existing one, you need clients. If you don't like selling and don't have a strong referral network, getting clients is a big challenge. I've helped scores of entrepreneurs who hate selling grow their business, and in my experience, one of the biggest hurdles is how you feel about selling itself.
If you judge selling as manipulative, you probably try to avoid it, and if you can sell in a way that aligns with your values and your personality, getting clients gets easier.
One of the best ways to do this is to start with warm leads instead of cold calls. This means approching people you know or feel comfortable with.
Here are three key ways to generate warm leads:
1. Contact database
By putting your contacts into a spreadsheet, you'll find lots of great people you've forgotten about.
Download your list of names into Excel with data fields for first and last name, then add two new columns. Call the first column "lead status" and the second one "lead type." In the status column, mark "warm" or "cold."
Warm contacts on this list are the people you wouldn't hesitate to call because you know you'd receive a warm welcome. Cold contacts are everyone else.
In the "type" column, decide whether each person is likely to be a potential client, referral source, mentor or something else. Knowing why you will contact each person in advance makes reaching out easier and desired results more likely.
Once you've got the columns populated, filter for the warm leads and reach out to all of them. Target a specific number of calls per day for maximum payoff. You may have to use Google or other research to get phone numbers. If you can't get a number, then use email as a last resort. Be ready to call or email several times to get a response.
If you want to generate new warm leads, networking is an excellent place to start. Instead of looking only for ideal clients, consider the fact that anyone can be a mutual referral source.
If you've exhausted everyone in your network, try someone new you have a lot in common with. You'll be more likely to grab a cup of coffee with someone who shares your love of hiking and traveling, and that conversation may lead you to your next client. We're more likely to hire and refer people we know, like and trust, but the foundation of that relationship is often common interests, not a potential to become business partners.
Before you get too far with these strategies, make sure you set up a customer relationship management (CRM) database. This will keep you organized so you remember who you need to call back and know which Cathy was the potential client and which one recommended the great sushi spot.
I recommend an online tool like Less Annoying CRM, Insightly or Highrise HQ if you have a small budget. Excel is great for filtering, but it doesn't email or text you reminders to follow up, which is crucial for acquiring new business. If you're not on top of it, you're wasting your time and throwing out potential revenue. Make sure to keep up-to-date notes about activity, actions you've promised and when you need to reach out again.
Related: Exactly How Involved Should You Be In Your Business's Sales?
2. Referrals
Referrals are an excellent warm lead resource. The problem is, when you wait for referrals, they aren't reliable or plentiful enough to keep your business going. You need to create multiple referral sources and nurture them.
To do this, make a list of your power partners. These are other businesses that serve your target market in a non-competitive way. Let's say you're a wedding photographer. Your power partners include makeup artists, florists and DJs. The magic of these partners is that you can all refer each other so it's a two-way street rather than beneficial to only one of you. If you get a large list of power partners and are in regular contact with them, your referral numbers will increase and become more reliable.
Once you know your power partners, you can look for them at networking events, and you can ask your existing contacts if they can connect you to others. If you're introduced to an ideal referral source through a mutual friend or contact, you're both more likely to make the effort to help each other.
Related: 3 Insanely Easy Ways To Double Your Sales
3. Speaking
Another great way to get clients and warm leads is speaking. The key to getting clients through speaking is inviting the audience to work with you during your presentation. If you find this step as cringe-worthy as cold calling, here are a few tips:
- Determine your core values and desired audience perception. One of my clients values professionalism, integrity and service. With this understanding, we brainstormed how she could invite members of the audience to work with her in a way that made her feel aligned with her core values.
- Talk to "your people." During your presentation, you'll notice a few people are more engaged than the rest of the room. You'll know they love what you're saying by their smiles, head nods and questions. When you make your pitch, have those people in mind. If you make more eye contact with them during the pitch, you'll feel more comfortable. They're the people who want to speak with you further, so make them feel invited to do so.
- Attend other speaking events. Listen to how other speakers make a pitch. Write down what you like about their methods and what turns you off. Figure out how to integrate the aspects you like into your own pitch.
If all else fails, make sure you have a way to collect names, phone numbers and email addresses at your events. This will give you a collection of warm leads. Enter them into your CRM system and then call them to follow up.
If you start using even one of these strategies, you'll find yourself with more leads and more confidence. Confidence, in the end, is what makes selling easier.
This article was originally posted here on Entrepreneur.com.
Sales Confidence
6 Sales Secrets To Turn A Rookie Into A Sales Superstar
Here's a tip: You're a consultant, not a salesperson. So, figure out what you're really selling.
I once worked as a salesman in an insurance company. And, like most salespeople, I couldn't meet my targets in the beginning. I noticed however, that certain people in my organisation made more sales than all of us put together. So, I got close to some of them and tried to learn their secrets.
Luckily, they were kind enough to let me in. And they taught me that selling is a skill that can be developed, not a special gift one is born with. After following them, I found that my selling improved drastically, and almost immediately. My sales were huge.
Related: The Personalities You Should Engage To Be Better At Sales
So I now believe that like me, anybody can learn the art of selling. But it begins by learning the following secrets:
1Make continuous learning your personal mission
I remember catching a ride with one of my sales managers one day. I was surprised that throughout our ride, he never played music, as I would have done were I the one driving. Instead, he plugged in an mp3 and played a particular talk. It was a huge lesson and I followed suit immediately.
To be a sales superstar, you need to learn every day. The future of "selling" belongs to those with an unquenchable thirst for learning, not just for those who work hard.
Make learning a top priority. Invest in books, seminars and audio talks related to sales, and watch your sales skyrocket.
2Overcome your fear of rejection
This fear is the greatest obstacle you must overcome if you intend to have a successful sales career. Like most newbie sales agents, I found it affected my selling, too.
Luckily, my supervisor became concerned and taught me that selling was basically a game of numbers. In other words, the more I met people, the more likely I would be to make a sale.
That new knowledge fired me up. I started getting new prospects, and when they were not interested in my product, I simply said, "Next!"
To be honest, we are all afraid of something at one point or another. But, to borrow a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, "If you would be a great success, make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear."
3Keep your sales funnel full
All sales superstars at any time have more than enough prospects to work on. To get better results in your sales, make sure you don't lack prospects. If you must, hire someone to help you generate leads.
Most important, make sure you always get referrals after closing each sale. Lead-generation tools like Bant.io and Hubspot are becoming part of more and more companies that desire to streamline their sales, to save some time.
Related: 7 Simple Ways To Close More Sales
4Make your enthusiasm Infectious
Imagine that a salesman knocks on your door looking tired and worn out. Gazing at you, his eyes filled with disappointment, he pitches you in a whisper.
"My organisation can help you plan your event," he says. "But then, you don't really need that, do you? I mean, everybody plans their events these days, except celebrities. You don't happen to know any celebrity around, do you?"
It will be a cold day in hell before such a salesperson makes a sale. According to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and one of the nation's richest salespersons, rightly said:
"One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you."
5Present yourself as a consultant, not a salesperson
When I started my consumer goods business, I asked myself what I was selling. I had groceries for sale in my mart, but when I introduced "Home and office delivery services," I realised that what I was really selling was stress alleviation, and a good time-saving option.
Once I understood this, I revised how I approached my targets, who were mainly busy professionals. When I met them, I didn't just start selling my products. Instead, I tried to understand the level of stress their jobs placed on them. I then recommended my grocery home delivery service as a way of helping them reduce stress.
In the same way, you should present yourself as a consultant. Don't leave anything to chance. Prepare for every sales meeting or call. Dress the part too, and look important. And just as my manager advised me back then, I'd say, take a short-term loan if you have to. Buy better clothes; you could even buy a car with a little down payment. Just make sure you present prospects with the image of a successful consultant.
6Close the sale
Many salespeople don't ask for the sale. They assume that after their sales pitch, clients will take the initiative to pay. In most cases, however, they postpone it.
Related: How To Hit Your Sales Targets
My sales manager always drummed into my ears the words, "Toby, you will always lose 100 percent of the sales you don't ask for."
So, don't make assumptions. Learn all you can about closing a sale. Just make sure you close the sale.
This article was originally posted here on Entrepreneur.com.
Sales Confidence
You Can't Succeed At Sales Working In Failure Mode
Customers buy products because of awesome marketing, not because of an awesome salesperson.
As an entrepreneur, time is your scarcest resource. You should try to spend each minute of your work life in the most effective way possible. This means reducing the time you spend on sales and increasing the time you spend on marketing. Marketing scales; sales doesn't.
Let's look at typical sales activities. You spend a good amount of time one-on-one with individual clients, explaining to them what your products or services are for and what the benefits are compared to the alternatives. You try to influence leads and prospects in a personal way, hoping to turn them into paying customers.
With typical marketing activities, you spend more time on one-to-many approaches – reaching out to audiences with valuable ideas, offering entry-level products and services for free, presenting yourself and your business as authentic and handling any interactions with leads and prospects in a scalable way. Using this distinction, it is clear that sales activities don't scale, but marketing activities do.
Related: The Sales That Really Count
When you have to verbally explain to someone the differences between two versions of your product, you are wasting your time.
You're doing sales. You should use that time to make it clear to potential clients – using text, audio or video – what you offer in which versions. That's marketing.
When you're physically on the road or in a store trying to convince leads and prospects that your products and services are great, you are doing sales. It would have been more effective to use that time making your products and services so awesome, that word gets around and clients are lining up to get a piece of the awesomeness. That's marketing.
When you are personally leading people around your store, showing them your wares and getting them to test some products, you're in sales. When you enable people to try things for themselves and use the internet for information, you're in marketing.
Your ultimate goal is to reduce the time you spend on sales to zero, and spend it all on marketing. Granted, it is unlikely that you will ever truly reach zero, but it's a useful goal. Part of the marketing job is prioritising ideas and requests for development. The end goal is to make things awesome. The service department is also an area where marketing plays a role because all client contacts are opportunities for marketing.
When you have products and services that are great, people should be eager to be your customers. If that is not the case, you lack in marketing, not in sales.
Some people will argue that there are products and services that require a personal touch. Some would say, for example, that you cannot just have people test drive a Mercedes-Benz E-Class without a salesperson guiding them through the process. I disagree.
High-end products do require a personal touch, but that's not sales; that is a service people pay for. This service comes with the product. It starts before the actual purchase, and it extends far after. Thanks to great development, service and marketing, the customer should already have made up his or her mind.
Related: 3 Online Marketing Strategies To Kick-Start Stagnant Sales
The "salesperson" is not spending any time selling anything to the client. Marketing should have already influenced and convinced the client. The salesperson just makes the purchasing process an enjoyable experience, which is the premium service the client pays for.
Don't waste time on sales because sales activities don't scale. You are operating in failure mode. It indicates that development, service and marketing were not able to make and communicate something that customers think is awesome. And it's only awesome for you when you can scale it, and when clients pay a premium price for personal service.
This article was originally posted here on Entrepreneur.com.


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Grant Johnson, 2, of Johnstown, left, and Kylee Koch, 5, of Windsor play in a jacuzzi tub during the Northern Colorado Home Improvement Show on Saturday at The Ranch. The show provided home improvement ideas for residents of Northern Colorado and, according to event organizers, many people are choosing to do their own improvement in this difficult econcomy.
A colony of feral cats sits around a water bowl at the old sugar factory on Thursday. Melodee and Mark Warter have been feeding the cats and recently were instrumental in having all but two of them spayed or neutered.
A feral cat bathes in the last rays of Thursday's sun at the old sugar factory.
A colony of feral cats feast at the old sugar factory on Thursday thanks to the support of Melodee and Mark Warter who rent a shop on the property.
Melodee Warter prepares food for fed a colony of feral cats on Thursday outside a shop at the old sugar factory.
Tuba players Zach Henderson, 17, left, Ben Tripam, 16, center, and Justin Tebbe, 15, work on a section of music that features tuba on Friday during a class at Loveland High School. The school's wind symphony will attend the Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, Wash, next year.
Head Band Director Matthew Arau leads the Loveland High School wind symphony on Friday during a class at Loveland High School.
Jim Stewart, training coordinator for the Larimer County Dive Rescue Team, plays the part of a drowning victim during training for ice rescue on Lake Loveland. Members from Loveland Fire and Rescue, Berthoud Fire Protection District and Estes Valley Volunteer Fire Department participated in the training so all of the agencies could be trained in the same techniques and coordinate on large scale rescues in which several agencies are dispatched.
Engineer Shawn Willians, left, communicates with firefighter Sandra Friedrichsen of Loveland Fire and Rescue as they investigate for signs of fire at 134 E. 29th Street on Wednesday evening. According to Lt. Greg Gilbert of Loveland Fire and Rescue, firefighters were called out to the Donut Haus around 4:30 p.m. where occupants of the unit complained of smoke. Gilbert said firefighters did see smoke but could not determine where it came from.
Piper Brown, 13, sings "Scarborough Fair" during auditions for a variety show called "Bill Reed Presents..." on Wednesday afternoon at Bill Reed Middle School. Students will perform at 7 p.m. on Feb. 11 at the Rialto Theater. The parent committee called ProLISA which organized the event was formed to raise money to head off any possible cuts to the Loveland Integrated School of the Arts program.
Youngsters help unload items donated for Haiti disater relief at the loading dock of H.E.L.P. International in Loveland on Tuesday. From left are Ella Price, 10, Millie Withrow, 11, Jack Withrow, 13, John Bednarek, 9, Lola Withrow, 9, and Magdalen Mercado, 10.
Milliken resident Ronald Mallett prepares to drop off several water filtration kits at the H.E.L.P. International warehouse in Loveland on Tuesday that will be sent to Haiti to help victims of the recent earthquake.
Jennifer Monk of Monk Yoga leads a noontime class on Tuesday that will benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti through donations to the Red Cross. Monk will offer another class to benefit the same cause at noon next Tuesday. Monk noticed the need from news reports over the weekend: "Watching all that on TV and seeing all those people in destitution, I though we needed to take some action," said Monk who offers her studio to benefit community causes.
Bill Reed Middle School sixth grader Alia Jackson, 11, reads from her award-winning essay titled "Speakin Out For Justice" during the Martin Luther King Day celebration Monday night at Thompson Valley High School.
Emergency personnel work the scene of a two-vehicle accident Monday near the park and ride lot on the Interstate-25 frontage road just south of exit 250.
Loveland residents, from left, Oren Yakovee, Josiah Powers, 4, and Airiel Siegel, 7, get some snacks in the commons area at Thompson Valley High School on Monday night as part of the Martin Luther King Day celebration's social hour.
Artwork contest winners line up onstage at Thompson Valley High School's Roberta Price Auditorium Monday night as Vicki Clark, center, hands an award to Dusty Rodriguez, 9, fourth from right, whose drawing placed third for third graders at Garfield Elementary School.
Cynthia Young of LaSalle leads her dog, Prince, across a stone wall Saturday at The Ranch while obedience training with other dog owners.
Three-year-old Eli Rexford of Greeley sprints around the Ranch-Way Feeds Arena atop his horse named Sugar while competing in the stick-horse race Saturday during the Big Thunder Draft Horse Show.
Mike Gustafson of Blanco, N.M. drives his team of Belgian horses around in front of spectators in Ranch-Way Feeds Indoor Arena during the tandem-class competition of the Big Thunder Draft Horse Show on Saturday at The Ranch.
Rose Gingerich, left, polishes the hoof of a Belgian mare named Shery Ann while Josh Steffen attaches braids to her mane in preparation for showing during the Big Thunder Draft Horse Show on Saturday at The Ranch.
Brandon Rathbone, 19, is dressed as a gladiator as he warms up the team of horses pulling his chariot, from left, Lady, Marty and Dutchess before performing Saturday during the Big Thunder Draft Horse Show at The Ranch. It was Rathbone's final performance with the Westernaires which is a precision drill organization out of Jefferson County that provides training in western riding, precision drills and horse care for youths from nine to 19 years old.
Several Canada geese skim over the frozen surface of Lake Loveland late Saturday afternoon before coming to a landing on the ice where other geese were congregating.
Artist Donald Fodness talks about one of his Slavador Dali-inspired drawings Saturday during a presentation called "Dali and Me!" at the Loveland Museum/Gallery.
Attendees to a presentation called "Dali and Me!" are silhouetted in front of several paintings on Saturday in the Foote Gallery at the Loveland Museum/Gallery. At rear left is "Monarchy," by Mollie Walker Freeman and at right is a collage on wood called "'A Hard Man is Good to Find' -Mae West," by Zoa Ace. The exhibit called "Twirling Dali's Moustache" runs through Feb. 14 and features a variety of pieces inspired by the works of artist Salvador Dali.
New Larimer County Commissioner Lew Gaiter, right, stands with his family as he addresses attendees to his swearing-in ceremony Friday in the hearing room of the Larimer County Offices in Fort Collins.
Corina Lane, left, reads from a thank-you note on Thursday from a time when she visited a school to tell them about blindness. She and her daughter Katelynne, right, were unpacking after Lane moved in on Jan. 8. Lane purchased the house through the Loveland Housing Authority's Home Match program.
Police Chief Luke Hecker, right, congratulates Sgt. John Teeples as he presents him with the Loveland Police Medal of Honor on Thursday during the Loveland Police Awards at the Loveland Police and Courts building. Teeples was awarded for saving the life of a fellow officer by fatally shooting a man who was holding the other officer hostage in 1972 when he was on the force. From left are Cpt. Ray Miller, Cpt. Rob McDaniel and Sgt, Teeples wife Sharon Teeples.
Loveland Police Chief Luke Hecker, right, congratulates Officer Derek Stephens after presenting him with the Police Shield award for being injured in the line of duty during Thursday's Loveland Police Awards at the Loveland Police and Courts building.


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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Melons and Body Worlds
It has. Recent rain and heat have produced cantaloupe leaves at exactly this spot of the yard, a ragged area made sunny by the removal of a mulberry tree (by the lovely power line guys in bright green jackets) and pruning of the forsythia (by me).
I know these are actual cantaloupe leaves because some are rising holding the actual seed aloft, just like the gymnast balancing on three wooden balls, holding his innards aloft in the Cycle of Life exhibition of Body Worlds. I alert you to that graphic image in case you don't want to see it, or similarly graphic images of the human body, in various poses, plasticened after death; if so, don't click that link. If you do want to see such images, it is the official website, and a dot com, and takes a while to load.
We saw it at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago yesterday, and it is amazing and enlightening. To see the body flayed and splayed, back or torso muscles opened out like wings, is quite something. I learned a lot.*
*Not to smoke, not to get obese. Especially if I want to donate my body to science. Yes, fruits and vegetables! Yes to a life with purpose, human connection, and as little stress as possible!
I was less moved by the more gimmicky things--poses with hockey sticks or footballs--but quite moved by the human body itself. And the ostrich body. And, downstairs, the giraffe.
We also sat under the Tesla coil to see lightning, and my son and I stood in a wind tunnel phone/photo booth.
Life is good. These are melons from Jonathan Koch! Muskmelon, Peaches, Strawberries, 2011, used with his blessing. Wild strawberries are ripe in my lawn, and the clover is in bloom. The rabbits are happy.
7 comments:
- Kathleen said...
Speaking of melons, health, the body, feminism, humor, and all things responsible, my annual mammogram is done!
- June 7, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Kristin said...
We are parched and desert like down here. Even the drought resistant plants are starting to get droopy. I don't miss the humidity but it is strange not to have afternoon storms.
- June 7, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- SarahJane said...
I would like to smoke and have my back muscles flayed into wings.
- June 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- SarahJane said...
I think it worked (posting, I mean)!
- June 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- Kathleen said...
Yes, it did, Sarah Jane! You can be flayed open into flying with a healthy body, too. (Though probably some sudden death, in that case.) Sad, sickly organs were laid out in glass cases whole, or sliced...
- June 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Nancy Devine said...
interesting. you must not have had hybrid seeds. (i've got an interest here in seed saving, fueled by a desire to save heirloom tomato seeds)
- June 7, 2011 at 4:45 PM
- Sandy Longhorn said...
Love the juxtaposition of the fruit and the flesh. Thanks for both.
- June 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM


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New infographic, Ever Gotten A Date Online?, from OnlineSchools.org examining some of the data behind online dating. As Mashable points out, one of the most surprising statistics is that the online dating industry is larger than the porn industry.
From Jennifer Van Grove at Mashable: Per the graphic — which pulls data from a number of sources, including Reuters and The Washington Post — online dating is worth more than one billion dollars per year, with the mobile phone dating market worth $550 million.
Found on Mashable via @hessiej on Twitter


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So six books in and it seems we've figured Izzy out, at least in her current permutation as a human. Is it time to say goodbye? For the moment?
There seemed to be so much more story to tell, so we decided we'd do four more Izzy novels which included Claim of Innocence and Question of Trust leading to the newest one, False Impressions. Yet now that it's done and almost out into the world, finding Izzy in a very unexpected place, it feels like a good place to stop. Or maybe to just pause and let Izzy grow on her own now that she's ended up where she has? We won't give away a spoiler, but when read it let us know what you think.


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I recently updated a development server running CentOS and ran into various minor issues including one regarding postfix being compiled with MySQL support. The development server runs ISPConfig for various virtual hosts and after upgrading all the packages on the server which included Postfix I noticed errors in the maillog. Below I describe what the error was in more detail as well as how it can easily be resolved.


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