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Deus Ex Machina: How Tablets Will Save Magazines
Conventional wisdom says print is dead. Lately, it has been hard to argue the point.
As the L2 2012 Digital IQ report for Magazines reports, magazines suffered years of sharp declines in revenues. The industry has at last stabilized, and there's the promise of rising revenues from digital advertising. But in the near-term magazines may find themselves trading analog dollars for digital dimes. (There's a compelling need to drive the adoption of true programmatic premium in media. and build stronger direct relationships with brands. But… that's a subject for another post.)
But in spite of all this, I see signs of a coming renaissance for truly strong magazine brands.
Now is not an easy time to be in the magazine business. But it may turn out to be the most exciting.
Multiple Trends Are Converging To Lift The Business
The early days of digital have been painful for magazine publishers. But the shift from desktop computing to mobile and tablets changes the game again — and for a change it's all good news.
Tablets: The rise of powerful affordable tablets shifts consumers from content creation mode to content consumption. eMarketer projects tablet penetration to reach 29.1 percent of Internet users by the end of this year, with those most likely to use a tablet between the demographically important ages of 25 and 44.
Native Ads And Visual Marketing: Early on, brands raided print budgets to fund digital. But as magazines shift from print to tablets and mobile, there are good reasons to expect that brand dollars will boomerang right back to the strongest magazine brands.
The rise of native ad formats and brands' needs for visual marketing that communicates quickly and wordlessly is a potentially huge boon to magazines on tablets. Magazines should look carefully at what's being done by real consumers with Flipboard, and do it bigger and better than the consumers can.
Magazines for beauty, fashion, travel and food already own some of the most brilliant visual content ever created. This can all be powerfully leveraged at scale in ways that weren't possible even 5 years ago.
E-Commerce: The shift from flipping pages in a magazine to swiping pages on a tablet encourages new behaviors. Consumers research — and buy — on tablets. This is especially true for beauty brands.
As eMarketer noted in a recent report, the gap on tablets between people who researched products and people who bought was narrowest in personal care and beauty. Tablet editions of magazines that can reliably facilitate the social discovery of new beauty products have an opportunity to tap a rich new revenue stream from brands.
Or, magazines could disintermediate brands entirely — imagine a line of super-premium Vogue magazine branded cosmetics. Competition and/or partnerships here feel likely in the future.
Condé Nast's Lucky Magazine ("the magazine about shopping and style") is arguably a far better idea today than it was when it was launched a dozen years ago. Sure, it has had a tough time of it in recent years and the magazine has had multiple changes in leadership. But if you haven't looked at them lately you should. I love what they're doing with "My Lucky". They're connecting the dots between commerce and content in exciting ways. Not all of it will work (does it ever?) but everything they learn about what does work can roll out to the rest of the company's magazine brands.
There are multiple magazine brands pushing to bridge content and commerce, including GQ's online store "GQ Selects," which will be hosted at NordstromMen.com starting in July. And last August, American Express Publishing's Departures began an "eExclusives" e-commerce feature, which lets readers buy products from big retail and brand advertisers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Akris and Brunello Cucinelli.
When the results of the experiments are in, watch for a major magazine company to acquire an online retailer — or vice-versa. This feels all but inevitable. The potential synergies are too powerful.
Big Data
A natural — and hugely valuable — by-product of commerce and content partnerships will be a significant amount of first-party data. When combined with other data sources, magazines have the potential to know more about their readers than ever. What do people read? What do they buy? How do these influence each other? Do people who read about Paris tend to book travel there, and how soon after they read? Or are most readers about Paris really more likely to go to Las Vegas because they love fantasy and excitement but are not secretly terrified about trying to converse in French?
There are also lessons to be learned from how retailers are harnessing the power of Big Data to improve advertising results. Rocket Fuel (a client of mine) worked with Lord & Taylor and delivered an ROI 3.6% greater than the goal and reduced CPA 73%. Imagine what's possible with the richness of data created by a content and commerce partnership.
Digital Disruption Cuts Both Ways
In the early days, the rise of digital was brutal for magazines. Soon, I believe, the industry will have the wind at its back again.
The lesson, I think, is to never get too smug when everything's going your way — and never get too down when nothing's going your way. Get the fundamentals right, pay attention to your customers, and have the courage to experiment.
The only thing we know for sure about digital and mobile is this.
Things change.
Photo Credit: Jeff Bezos by Jurvetson (Creative Commons)


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ScreamingChickenNeat! I take it SpaceX is a private enterprise?
MetroplexJimScreamingChickenNeat! I take it SpaceX is a private enterprise? Indeed, it is. Space X is headed by Elon Musk. Its/his primary competitors are Blue Origin, headed by Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. And lest we forget, Wilber and Orville Wright were bicycle mechanics, not government employees.

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There are many reasons why you may be considering commencing some home improvements. There are projects for all skill levels and interests. No matter the project you have in mind, you can execute it well when you plan ahead. If you keep reading, you will learn some helpful tips.
Always have a professional inspect your potential new home. This way, you do not have to figure out on your own or rely on a seller let you know about things that must be repaired or replaced if you purchase the home. If you call in a professional that is a third party they will be able to keep things civil.
You can decrease energy costs and still have a well-lit exterior by switching out your always-on lighting system for one that is motion-activated. You can still turn the light on manually when you need to, and most models also let you fine tune the sensitivity.
Lampshades that are plain add no personality and are boring. You could easily create an original lamp sage with some acrylic paint and some stencils. Spicing up your lamp shades will make a surprising difference in the personality of a room.
Attaching a couple of PVC pipes is pretty easy to do if you have PVC cement and primer. Make sure that the products you use fit your pipes. Also, the pipes' surfaces need to be free from water.
If you want to replace locks, you can replace the entire knob or just the cylinder. The part that does the locking is the cylinder. If you wish to replace a lock for security, you can simply replace the cylinder. On the other hand, if you want to improve the overall appearance and/or security of a door, you'll want to change out the whole lock unit.
These are only some of the ways that you can go about making home improvements. Beware of the fact that home improvement can become an addiction if you are not careful! This advice will make it easy for you to accomplish home improvement the right way. After you have finished a couple of projects, you will seek more and more things to attempt.


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How to get your website posts featured on Google? Google is one of the most popular search engines of the world with a large number of users worldwide and it covers more than 80% overall searches. Google mostly displays answer against search queries directly in search results with snippets and highlight the result. It doesn't necessary that your website on #1 result to be highlighted. Google only highlight the results which exactly matching to the search and perfect answer. Google can highlight any of the ones results from the first ten...
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ON AIR - Room 104
with Cormac Moore & Saoirse Long
Wes Hoolahan has emerged as a doubt for Ireland's upcoming games - the friendly against England and the Euro qualifier against Scotland.
The midfielder has a knee problem and has been advised by his club Norwich to rest..
Meanwhile Ireland boss, Martin O'Neill, says he hopes Sunday's friendly with England passes without any trouble. It'll be the first meeting between the sides since February 1995 when travelling England fans forced the game to be abandoned in the first half. O'Neill says the match will be the ideal preparation for the Euro qualifier against Scotland a week later.


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- Healthy Mind Champions Session 1
Healthy Mind Champions Session 1
Healthy Mind Champions and Epic Friends is a cohort of students that have either suffered from mental health concerns, know of anyone that has or would like to support those that do. We met on a weekly basis to discuss concerns and think of strategies we could do that would support students within our community. From this group we created the display board outside 207 and the planner document. This year we have listened to feedback from students in their PSHEE lessons and decided to have a specific focus for each time we meet up. The first one is based on bereavement with our second focusing on Sleep Deprivation.


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HomeWord Festival 06/07 Biographies Archive
Our HomeWord Festival is a gathering of many talented people: poets, story-writers, novelists, song-writer/musicians,
cartoonists, illlustrators and other visual artists who like to work with words. Our special guests. panelists and
tutors love to share their creativity with the community.
Please note these bios were written in 2006-2007 - much has happened since then!
Our Patron
The NWG Inc committee wishes to express its gratitude to Julie Owens M.P. - federal member for Parramatta - and her office staff for their kind assistance with preparations for our HomeWord Festival.
Lil Scully lives in Parramatta and is President of NWG Inc (2005-07). She loves being a part of the New Writers' Group. Lil believes writing provides a great insight into the lives and concerns of the members of our community and is keen to promote writing in Western Sydney in particular. She wrote an honours thesis in 2004 entitled 'Nice, different, unusual: A political reading of Kath and Kim'. Most of her own writing she says is fragmentary and contained in small, but colourful notebooks. Poetry seems to fit her life best: lending itself to being scribbled on buses, between meetings and even sometimes scrawled in lipstick on a bathroom mirror.
Nasrin Mahoutchi is our Festival Co-Ordinator for 2007 and brings to her work extensive experience in the Arts and community cultural development including work with newly arrived migrant, refugee artists and women from culturally diverse communities. Nasrin holds a Master of Creative Writing from Macquarie University (1999-2000). Some of her short stories have won prizes and been published in literary periodicals such as HEAT, SOUTHERLY, MEANJIN.
Isabell Petrinic was the co-ordinator of HomeWord 05 and 06 helping build quality programs. She continues to give advice and promotion support during our 2007 preparations. A journalist with Fairfax Community Newspapers Isabell also teaches at the University of Western Sydney and the University of Notre Dame. Isabell has extensive networks with cultural groups in Western Sydney and beyond. Spoken Word events are a specialty.
Geoff Miller is the Community Events Co-ordinator for Parramatta City Council; he has been the catalyst for the HomeWord Festival becoming an annual event. NWG Inc relies on his fifteen years experience in event management and the arts, both in Australia and overseas, to develop and promote HomeWord. Geoff's vision and skills assist community groups define and achieve their goals. Amongst his wealth of qualifications we're intrigued by one in particular: an 'explosives licence'. Maybe a touch of Festival Fireworks from a barge in the Parramatta River, Geoff...?
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Tim Brunero will debate Politics in Art at our HomeWord forum on Saturday 9th September at Riverside. Tim is a Sydney Journalist who shot to prominence as the runner-up of the 2005 series of Big Brother. He writes a weekly blog on the satirical website The Chaser mixing multimedia content with conventional columns and 'adventure blogs'. Tim is a committed unionist and activist, and has worked on many progressive publications like Workers Online writing stories eg Girl Power and Arabian Lights. Since leaving BB Tim has been MC-ing University Orientation weeks, Trade Union functions, and other events up and down the eastern seaboard. He has also been working on television and radio and writing for mastheads like The Sydney Morning Herald. He recently traveled to East Timor to make a documentary on the work of Aid Organisation Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA. He also blogs about 2006 Big Brother and does a video podcast about the show.
Jayne Dyer joined the panel on "Artistic Licence" held in collaboration with Sydney Writers Festival on 31st May. Her work was exhibited as part of this year's Sydney Writers' Festival. "In Dyer's work Babel, black columns, constructed from books, suspend and refute logic - and hover between the real and the illusory.... A labyrinth of passageways and crammed bookshelves rise from base to pinnacle like a beehive, woven with tunnels, steps, platforms and bridges that presage an immense library of seemingly impossible geometry. Jayne Dyer is Head of Public Programs at the National Art School in Sydney. She is represented by Uber Gallery in Melbourne, John Batten Gallery in Hong Kong and Redgate Gallery is her agent in Beijing." (quoted from SWF site). Photograph "Jayne Dyer #4" by Prudence Upton.
Fida Haq Fida's most recent exhibition was "Of Angels and Chariots - Australia" at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery. This followed his return from the 12th Asian Biennale in Dhaka, where he also held his first solo exhibition Of Angels and Chariots at a major private gallery. Among many recent projects, he installed his photomedia project, Voyage of Friendship, at the Bangladesh High Commission in Canberra. A mural more than seven metres in length and almost a metre in depth, it combines images from both Bangladeshi and Australian contexts and includes one of his own favourite subjects, the colorful rickshaw art of Bangladesh. See Fida's site for the wide range of work including his beautiful and though-provoking recycled creations. Fida is collaborating with NWG Inc writers to produce an animation for our main September forum "Politics and Art".
Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith. Thirteen of her poetry collections (one including short stories) and two of her novels have been published. She has won the New South Wales Premier's Prize twice, the Victorian Premier's Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award for a lifetime of achievement in poetry, and many other awards. She has been Writer in Residence at the Australian National University in Canberra, the University of Western Sydney, Springwood High School and the New South Wales Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service. Her novel Play With Knives has been translated and published by dtv in Germany. Her latest collection, Friendly Fire, is published by Giramondo Press.
Stewart Peters With a style he chooses to call 'Acoustic Singer-songwriter', Stewart Peters is highly respected in Sydney as a singer-songwriter and producer, Stewart has performed on several national TV shows and written and produced for various successful Australian artists. He has released five CD's of his original songs and received national airplay with several of his CD's. Stewart regularly performs live at our gatherings and festivals. Visit his website to hear sample tracks. Stewart's festival workshops cover the basic structures of song; how to get creatively inspired; how to record your ideas and what 'songwriting success' can mean to you. Writing from the heart and not the wallet! Stewart has produced a CD for NWG Inc members in his own studio Soundshed Music Productions and his new singer/song-writer network Western Fringe (based at Mars Hill Cafe) has become hugely popular.
Poetry Slam
Citizen Tom is a performance poet anchored in rhythm,
politics and spirituality. He is captain of the Word
Wrestling Federation's Australian Title holding team,
Housecat Havoc. He is currently adapting the poetry
of the 13th century Sufi mystic, Rumi, into hip hop.
This collection, recorded with Iranian musicians and
one of Austrlia's leading independent hip hop
producers, will be released shortly.
Citizen Tom (aka Tom Keily) was our special co-host with Nathan Judd
at the HomeWord heat of the second State Library Poetry Slam -
Mars Hill Cafe, 24th November 2006, and OneWord welcomes him back
for the HomeWord Festival 07 Poetry Slam on Friday 25th May 2007 at Mars Hill Cafe see Calendar.
Miles Merrill will co-ordinate our poetry slam in the Courtyard of Riverside Theatres, Parramatta on Saturday 2nd September. Born in Chicago, Miles Merrill is the son of a Black Panther father and a mother whose family tree dates back to British-American Colonialism. His mother's ancestors enslaved his father's. The tension of embattled generations twists it's way through the work of this one man. The hit of Sydney Festival 2005 with his show Slamming and guest of this year's Sydney Writers Festival, Miles Merrill is Australia's spoken-word tour de force. Miles combines elements of theatre, hip-hop, slam poetry and music, flinging words in a rapid fire onslaught of versified emotion. His CD What Night Knows, can be heard on JJJ, ABC Radio National, and Sydney's FBI Radio.
Nathan Judd is a spoken word poet who runs One Word
at Mars Hill Cafe (331 Church Street, Parramatta) last Friday of the month. One Word offers open mic to all comers who read/sing/perform
their original work or the work of their favourite writers (free entry). Nathan is Senior Vice President of New Writers Group Inc and a regular
at our fortnightly gatherings. His poem 'Heat' is published in ZineWest, NWG Inc's 2006 anthology. Nathan will MC the Parramatta heat of the State Library
Poetry Slam with Citizen Tom on Friday, 24th November, 2006 when for one night, One Word becomes part of the HomeWord Festival. Update: Nathan and Citizen
Tom will again host a HomeWord Festival Poetry Slam on friday 25th May 2007, see Calendar 2007.
Singer songwriter Dan Hopkins performs solo in the singer songwriter tradition or with accompaniment at a wide range of venues.
His work features powerful melodic lines, thoughtful lyrics and creative guitar work. Dan has recorded a six track demo of his most
recent collection of work, including the haunting number
'misty eyes.' Dan will be the first artist performing at the Parramatta heat of the State Library's Poetry Slam on 24th Novemeber 2006 at
Mars Hill Cafe, 331 Church St Parramatta. Dan is also a committee member of NWG Inc and a popular member at our regular gatherings.
His song lyric 'You're the Man' appears in ZineWest, NWG Inc's print anthology. He will accompany TC Coombes at the HomeWord Festival
2007 Poetry Slam.
Poets Union
"Poems in Conversation with each other" were held at Riverside Theatres on Saturday, 2nd September, 2006 as part of the HomeWord Festival (see Calendar)
Margaret Bradstock is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, co-editor of Five Bells and Editorial Adviser to Kalimat. She has been widely published in journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas, and has won national awards for poetry, including the Henry Lawson Festival Award, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and an Asialink Literature Residency in China. Margaret has published four collections of her own poetry and eleven other books of poetry, fiction and biography. Her most recent poetry collections are The Pomelo Tree and Coast.
Joanne Burns is a Sydney poet who also writes short fiction, including monologues and future fictions. She has published numerous collections since 'Snatch' was published in London in 1972. A new collection of her poetry 'Footnotes of a Hammock' was published by Five Islands Press in 2004, and was joint prize winner in the 2005 ACT Poetry Awards : the Judith Wright Award for a published collection by an Australian poet. Her work has been widely published in magazines, journals and anthologies and also produced for theatre and radio - most recently two of her monologues of obsession 'Bare Feet' and 'Ergo Sum', under the title 'Missionary Positions' on ABC Radio. Joanne Burns has taught creative writing for many years and is currently a recipient of an Australia Council New Work Grant in the Established Writer [Poetry] category.
Kerry Leves Descended from Irish convicts and Danish immigrants, Kerry Leves has published poetry and prose in various magazines, newspapers and anthologies as well as in his own selected works. In the early 1980s he lived and worked in India before returning to Australia and working as a teacher of English as a Second Language.
David Musgrave was born in 1965 in Sydney. He studied at Sydney University where was awarded a PhD in literature in 1997. He has continued to write prose as well as poetry and has published articles on Australian and European literature. His list of awards and prizes includes the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, the Broadway Poetry Prize and the Sidney Nolan Gallery Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Poetry Prize. He was awarded an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship in 2001 and an Emerging Writer's grant from the Australia Council in 2002. David is currently working on a collection of poems, titled Bodies of Water, in collaboration with his wife, photographer Fiona Robards, as well as another book gathering his poems from the last four years. In 2005 he started the publishing house Puncher & Wattmann, which publishes contemporary Australian poetry and prose.
Jenni Nixon, a Sydney poet, has performed her poetry at a wide range of events in Sydney, Melbourne, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains in many diverse settings: pubs, theatres, halls and parks, even a cemetery. Jenni trained at the Independent Theatre, Sydney, and worked as an actor for many years. She toured schools with the Queensland Theatre Company, delivering classic and contemporary plays along with a poetry program. Her poem, Visitor at Home, won the 2002 Leonard Teale memorial prize at the Henry Lawson Festival, Gulgong, NSW. Her book and audio CD, 'Café Boogie', published by Interactive Press was launched by Joanne Burns at Gleebooks in June 2004.
Louise Wakeling is a Sydney poet, teacher and novelist. Her most recent collection of potry is 'Medium Security' (Ginninderra Press,2002). She is currently working on a third collection, Parachuting in a War-zone, which explores the interconnections between sport, war and life in the slow lane.
Roger Fletcher is a prolific, award-winning Australian cartoonist and illustrator. His first comic strip, TORKAN made its debut in the Sunday Telegraph in June 1976 and his second comic strip, STARIA, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction adventure, has appeared in the pages of the Daily Telegraph since May 1980. Roger has taught children and adults the art of cartooning in Sydney, country NSW, Qld and even Ireland. He delights in seeing kids who think they can't draw producing something they're really proud of. When he isn't flat out drawing and teaching he plays guitar in a rockabilly band. "Fletch" will conduct a workshop for 12-16 year olds at Parramatta Library on Saturday 9th September 2006, 10-12 noon.Update: this workshop was a great success - the adults loved it as much as the youngsters!
Jane Goodall is a research professor with the Writing and Society program at the University of Western Sydney and her academic interests include theatre and dance performance, and the history of science. Her book PERFORMANCE AND EVOLUTION IN THE AGE OF DARWIN (Routledge, 2002) is about science in popular performance. It won the Australasion Drama Studies biennial book prize for 2002/03 and was the basis for a 3 part series Jane wrote and presented for the ABC Science Show in 2003. She is also the author of two psychological thrillers - THE WALKER (Hodder, 2004) and THE VISITOR (Hodder, 2005). She won the Ned Kelly first crime novel award, has been a guest author with the Big Book Club of South Australia and was on the Books Alive 100 Great Reads list for 2005. Her novels explore themes of cultural change, the supernatural and working life. Jane will give a class on creative writing/editing at our TownHall workshops on Saturday, 9th September, 2006.Update: Jane consented to be our Judge for the ZineWest 07 Competition for Western Sydney Writers. The Writing and Society Research Group doubled the competition prize money to $400 for first and added a subscription of HEAT magazine to 2nd place. See 2007 Calendar
Dianne Ellis is experienced as a director/producer and writer of short films. Her credits include finalist in the Comedy Channel Short Film Festival. Dianne currently works full-time as a marketing and media manager with broad experience in graphics, web design, media, film and television. Her workshops in previous Homeword Festivals were highly praised and we are delighted to welcome her back this year to share her passion and expertise with aspiring film makers. At an all up fee of $15, her workshop must be the most reasonably priced film-making course in Sydney! Together with Adrian Viglianti , Dianne will run her Film Making workshop on Saturday 9th September 2006 at the Parramatta Library from 9:30-3:30.Update: Dianne's filmmakers club will be open to visitors and new members for the HomeWord Festival 07, see 2007 Calendar


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Tuesday, December 8, 2015
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Beautiful dining room. I like the two dining room chairs being different , a different color. I would definitely want to have Christmas at your house and love your decor. Did you use to design or decorate for a living, if not you certainly have a flair or calling for it.ReplyDelete
Kai is just so comfortable and knows he has it made, got his little pillow and special spot to nap.
Your blog header is one I like , especially "Christmas tide" very nice.
Judy your dining room is beautiful I love how you've styled the table and the two hutches with all of that gorgeous white dinnerware...it is stunning. But I have to laugh because you and i have the exact same taste in dishes. I too have the same salad/dessert plate from Walmart and the Old Curiosity Shop plates are the same ones we had when I was growing up. I love them and am always on the look out for them at flea markets yard sales and so on. I love the two paired together. And your tree is just perfect. What a wonderful time of the year! XO BarbaraReplyDelete
Oh my - worth the wait to see all your lovelies. I want some of the christmas scene plates that you have - but I want last year's - they have snowy owls on them. Ebay is much too spendy for my taste - so I wait. I love how you have set your table Right now mine is set in sewing machine and doll clothes preparations. Hee Hee. I have those same Old Curiosity Shop dishes - we used them at thanksgiving. They are just wonderful. I found them at a yard sale this summer. Everything you do is so sweet and clever - my house looks pitiful in comparison. Your chest is such a treasure and I think that it is perfect the way it is.ReplyDelete
Your dining room is so special - love that you have two china cabinets in there - so I'm not the only one with multiple china cabinets. Everything is simply spectacular.
Your cottage looks lovely - and Kai is adorable!!!ReplyDelete
Everything looks so lovely with warmth and love! Your table setting is wonderful!ReplyDelete
Oh Judy, everything is so pretty and comfy in your dining room. I love all the Christmas decor and how it all plays so well with the traditional and everyday feel of the room. Always inspired! Blessings, Cindy That sweet Kai :)ReplyDelete
Your home is done in the style that I love..........cherished pieces, simplicity, patriotic and I love your plates from Walmart.. Everything is so pretty.......I love the rag balls and pine in the wooden bowl. I have some rag balls so will do the same here.......Thank you for sharing your Christmas décor with everyone.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas from Virginia.
Once again, you have done a beautiful job, and you have inspired me :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your beautiful decor and home with us.
Love those darling and thoughtful gifts that Tami gave you for your birthday!
Last night, the UPS man dropped off my darling herb boxes. Can't wait to get them up and decorated :)
I have some of those cute plates from Walmart too. I pair them with some deep green and pine bough embossed plates.
Judy, your place always looks just perfect and so charming. I love all of your treasures.ReplyDelete
Your house is very warm and inviting. Love the traditional touches throughout. That spelling toy with Merry Christmas is absolutely wonderful. Merry CHristmas!ReplyDelete
Oh such a pretty display here there and everywhere! I was in love with the little mouse, then the blackbirds and pie and everything else I saw :)ReplyDelete
Hi Judy, your little Patriotic Tree is so wonderful, just perfect for this Christmas Season. thanks so much for joining in for the party!ReplyDelete
Your dining room is beautiful.... I saw the dishes at Walmart and love them so much, but no room to store them. I have so many already. I love what you've done and I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
Judy!! I love everything that you shared and how you showcased it all is stunning!! I have those same green dishes but I have been picking mine up over the years.......ReplyDelete
The Dining Room is gorgeous!!
Thanks so much for stopping by!! You know the Victorian saying that "More is More"!! I definitely went with that this year!!
Hi Judy. Your dining room is so beautiful. I love that you painted the chairs. The china plates are so pretty as is the centrepiece. Everything is just perfect and cozy. Have a wonderful weekend. PamReplyDelete
Judy, your home is full of warmth and charm. I love seeing all the details of your decor. Love the patriotic tree with the flags and the stitch work. The sign from your daughter makes me smile, because my husband often says that to me. Can't wait to see more of your decorated home.ReplyDelete
Hi Judy, I came over from Common Ground. I had to visit because I have the same reindeer with the red eyes.ReplyDelete
Everything looks perfect. I can't believe those dishes were from Walmart.
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Hi Judy! So much to love about this post. The WalMart dishes are so pretty, and they have added onto the collection over the years. I have Old Curiosity Shop dishes, too, and use them every Thanksgiving and Christmas. I adore all your pretty holiday touches. JaneReplyDelete
loved your warm decor and dishes..so invitingReplyDelete
Fun ideas. You might enjoy my husbands Christmas music. We come to gold county...this March I think. Www.johndoan.com. Merry merry
You decorated everything very cool! My co-worker a writer at essay-writer-club says that your decorations are totally in a Christmas mood! Besides as a ceramist I'd like to say that your plates are very beautiful and were made very qualified!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Ginger. I appreciate your kind words and am glad you enjoyed it..Merry Christmas..JudyDelete
Oh, Judy, your dining room is as charming as can be! I simply love the china with the bunny on it! How wonderful that you found those at Walmart. I'm going to have to shop there more often. Love your father's blanket chest! That is precious indeed. Thanks so much for sharing this with us and Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.ReplyDelete
Beautiful post, Judy -- your dining room looks wonderful!! I love the black chairs. :) That little mouse in the first picture is PRECIOUS -- I want one, too. ;)ReplyDelete
Don't you love it when your grownup children remember special things (like a song) from their childhood? That always means SO much to me. Your daughter sounds very thoughtful, just like her mom.
Little Kai is just adorable!! He seems very well-behaved. Duncan thanks you for the compliment on his pictures -- he is a handsome rascal. ;) Thank you so much for your visits and kind comments, Judy. I'm really behind on my visits due to illness in the family. Trying my best to catch up and still get things done here.
Wishing you much joy in the coming week, my friend!
Denise at Forest Manor
Judy, your post has been featured at No Place Like Home today. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones!ReplyDelete
Christmas blessings,
I really like that first piece. The birds on a block of wood. NiceReplyDelete
all your decor is really nice. I really like the idea of putting the tree in the old wash tub. Too cute.
What a sweet item to still have after all these years. The chest that your dad built
Hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.


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After initially expressing interest in acquiring INNOVA' shares in March, Pollard Banknote increased its offer to $2.50 per share for a total equity value of approximately $51 million. This represents a 19 percent premium to Pollard Banknote's original offer of $2.10 per Common Share and a 66 percent premium to INNOVA's closing share price of $1.51 on the TSX on March 9, 2017, the last trading day prior to the public announcement of Pollard Banknote's initial proposal to acquire INNOVA.
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Singer Nick Jonas and model Emily Ratajkowski recently teamed up for a new photo shoot for Glamour Magazine, where they help each other answer annoying press questions and dish on their careers and social media.
Emily on using Social Media to Connect with Others:
"I sent Lena Dunham a DM with a dorky selfie on Instagram and waved "Hi!" It sparked a great friendship, and it's how I came to write for Lenny. And I spent time with Kim Kardashian West after defending her nude selfie on Twitter. It was bullshit that Piers Morgan [tweeted a joke about putting clothing on her], in my opinion."
Emily on Posting Topless Photos:
"I shave my armpits and wear makeup. They might be things I like because they're part of a patriarchal society, but I'm reclaiming them. Women should be the ones who are in control, even if they're topless or being sexual."
Nick on his New Album Last Year Was Complicated:
"A big thing for me is getting real about my insecurities; trying to share more than the surface level with people. There's so much pressure as an artist and a performer—especially in the pop world—to maintain a level of confidence. But then you look at people who are killing it right now: They're open about insecurities. It's amazing to see how connected that makes us all."
Nick on stripping down for his "Close" video:
"I was in the gym pretty heavily before we shot. And I don't know if I got a spray tan or not, but, uh…maybe I did. I can't remember. [Laughs.] Everyone looks better with a tan, let's be honest."
The pair also helped answer one another's annoying questions that they typically get from the press – check it out below!
Be sure to check out Emily & Nick's full interview at Glamour.com!
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May Featured Athlete: Bonnie Summers
1. How did you find out about CrossFit?
I found out about Crossfit from my two nieces who had been going. (Ashley and Jenny) Ash's sister Wendy was a trainer and so strong!
2. What is your favorite Crossfit exercise or WOD?
My favorite WOD was not Filthy Fifty! At first I didn't love any WOD but within a few months I was glad to be working hard and getting stronger. I enjoyed Murph and I also enjoyed learning double unders. Wall Balls are still low on my list.
3. How long have you been CrossFitting for?
I have been Crossfitting since July 2009--the longest that I have stayed with any one workout!
4. What do you do for a living?
I am a rancher and a mom. Not necessarily in that order--except during calving season.
5. What are your hobbies?
My hobbies are riding horses, and spending time with my family, quilting, cross-stitching, running, reading, and cooking.
6. What are your goals?
My goals are to be better and stronger every day in every aspect of my life.
7. Why do you CrossFit?
I Crossfit so I can be strong enough to keep up with my kids, my hired man, and continue to enjoy my ranch life!
8. Any advice for future CrossFitters?
My advice for future Crossfitters is to start and then keep working! Don't be discouraged. The workout is not the enemy, your bad habits- both eating and fitness- are and you will be better for any effort, so why not make it your best effort! Enjoy the ride, you are worth it


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Sangeeta Gulia explains what HDFS Federation is and how it differs from classic HDFS:
HDFS Federation improves the existing HDFS architecture through a clear separation of namespace and storage, enabling generic block storage layer. It enables support for multiple namespaces in the cluster to improve scalability and isolation. Federation also opens up the architecture, expanding the applicability of HDFS cluster to new implementations and use cases.
Namenodes are federated, that is, all these NameNodes work independently and don't require any coordination with each other.
It's one way to reduce the number of potential single points of failure in a Hadoop environment.
Kevin Jacobs has a tutorial on Python's Pandas library:
There are a few things worth mentioning. Often, Pandas is abbreviated as pd (like Numpy which is often abbreviated as np). If you look at other code, you will see that DataFrames are often abbreviated by df. Here, the DataFrame is constructed using data from a list of lists. The columns argument specifies the keys of the data.
This is a high-level intro, but helps you get your feet wet if you've not played with the library.
Arun Sirpal puts together a comparison of Azure SQL Database prices (in GBP) by service tier:
Hopefully this paints a picture for you. I will have my say though. Basic tier database is something that you should NOT be using for production workloads, its quite obvious with the 2GB limit but worth reinforcing the point. Standard tier is more for your common workloads and premium is designed for high transactional volume where I/O performance is much more important to you – my hunch maybe they are utilizing SSDs? I am not sure but the premium costs are much higher.
There is another service tier called Premium RS (In preview). My understanding is that performance is similar to that of Premium HOWEVER only useful for workloads that can tolerate data loss up to 5-minutes due to service failures. I will probably not use this for production but then again it seems to be nearly half the cost of premium. Choices choices choices.
Two notes with this one. First, these are prices as of when Arun put together the notes; they will probably fluctuate over time. Second, there might be differences in prices by data center. At the very least, though, this gives you an idea of the relative price spread.
Gogula Aryalingam shows us a neat trick in Power BI:
Enthusiastic as we were, one of the hardest nuts to crack, though it seemed so simple during requirements gathering, was to perform a distinct count of a dimension based on a filtered measure on a couple of the reports. To sketch it up with some context; you have products, several more dimensions, and a whole lot of measures including one called Fulfillment (which was a calculation based on a couple of measures from two separate tables). The requirement was to get a count of all those products (that were of course filtered by other slicers on the Power BI report) wherever Fulfillment was less than 100%, i.e. the number of products that had not reached their targets.
Simple as the requirements seemed, the hardest part in getting it done, was the limited knowledge in DAX, specifically, knowing which function to use. We first tried building the data model itself, but our choice in DAX formulae, and the number of records we had (50 million+) soon saw us running out of memory in seconds on a 28GB box; Not too good, given the rest of the model didn't even utilize more than half the memory.
Click through for the answer.
Samir Behara has a quick look at SonarQube, an open source static analysis engine:
In my project, we have also integrated SonarQube with our TFS CI/CD build and have configured the Quality Gates.
For example – If I try to inject a security threat or a known coding issue — the TFS build will fail, the check in will get rejected, the quality gate fails and SonarQube points me to the exact issue – which I can rectify and do another check-in. So it will basically stop you from checking in code with potential issues.
Currently the only way to catch such issues is during manual coding reviews. SonarQube will help in automating that process. You can write your own rules to look for known issues in the code and stop it before the code gets checked in to source control.
So overall you can ensure good quality code going to Production and less regression defects coming up at a later point of time.
Read on for an example where a SonarQube rule can find a SQL injection vulnerability and thereby fail the build.
Parikshit Savjani explains how the SQL Server team was able to use indirect checkpoints to improve backup performance:
In RDBMS, whenever tables get larger, one of the technique to tune and optimize the scans on the tables is by partitioning it. With indirect checkpoints, we do the same.
In indirect checkpoint, for every database which has target_recovery_time set, a dirty page manager and dirty page list is created. The dirty page list is further partitioned by scheduler allowing the dirty page tracking to scale further. This decouples the dirty page scan for a given database from the size of the buffer pool and allows the scan to scale and be much faster than automatic checkpoint algorithm.
As Bob Dorr mentions in his blog here, a new database creation process in SQL Server 2016 requires only 250 buffers to scan as opposed to 500 Million buffers with former algorithm. This is the rationale for making indirect checkpoint a default which is much more scalable algorithm to track dirty pages in the buffer pool compared to automatic checkpoints.
Read on to see how this technology led to faster backups.
Meagan Longoria shows how to use Biml to generate SSIS packages which use the Task Factory Dynamics CRM source:
I recently worked on a project where a client wanted to use Biml to create SSIS packages to stage data from Dynamics 365 CRM. My first attempt using a script component had an error, which I think is related to a bug in the Biml engine with how it currently generates script components, so I had to find a different way to accomplish my goal. (If you have run into this issue with Biml, please comment so I know it's not just me! I have yet to get Varigence to confirm it.) This client owned the Pragmatic Works Task Factory, so we used the Dynamics CRM source to retrieve data.
Meagan has the code as well as some important notes, so read the whole thing.
Availability Groups, Powershell
Frank Gill has written a script to perform an Availability Group failover using Powershell:
The function takes a replica name as input and queries system tables for Availability Groups running as secondary that are online, healthy, and synchronous. For each AG found, the function generates an ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP statement. If the -noexec parm is set to 0, the command will be executed. If -noexec is set to 1, the command will be written out to a file.
When writing the function, I started out trying to use the native PowerShell Availability Group cmdlets. After several false starts, I found it easier to develop the T-SQL code in Management Studio and use Invoke-Sqlcmd to execute the code. The code is available below. I hope you can put it to use.
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The Christian life, in 3 steps. Seriously. (part 2)
The author of Hebrews has boiled down the Christian life into three basic steps. He wrote this to believers regarding the first step:
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
If we are going to live the way we were created to live, then we must know life's author. Drawing near, spending time one-on-one with God, is the only way to do that.
The second step can only happen after we take the first step. But if we do draw near, then the next step will be both normal and natural.
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since He who promised is faithful.
What is your anchor when life goes sideways?
What do you hold on to when an unwanted situation becomes the norm?
We'll say that "God is my rock", but we often rely on other tempting options to get away and regain our footing: the internet, TV, and our phones all offer mild escapes… before we get to the often condemned but equally tempting ones like alcohol, drugs, and inappropriate relationships.
When life doesn't go like we wanted it to, or we find it hard to follow Jesus, we need to hold on to the confession of our hope. What that means is we anchor ourselves on the truth that we know. We remind ourselves that He has promised what we do with His Greater Message in this life is the most important thing for us. If God is faithful (and He is), then we can confidently expect that our choices now will have eternal significance – no matter what life throws at us.
God is faithful.
Do we trust that statement?
Do our action show that we trust that statement?
If Yes – then hold on, without wavering.
If No – then go back to step 1 and draw near to God, so that you can know Him to the point you can trust His faithfulness.
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From the very first day, I've seen a darker part of me. I never look for catastrophe, it runs around and the rhythm will dance with me. Same enough for faded eyes that see the hole erupt in the very heart of life, Aching just to be living in the light, hurting as the pain travels to my eyes.
I got a reason all the demons on the road are meant to be there
I'll never be sane without the air that drifts in islands within all I fear
We're all alone and that's the deal, but together we roam on in the cities and fields.
Changing all the games in our life, playing a part to keep stoking the fire
Standing on the shoulders of the greats, is not enough to keep a hold these days
Changing up the stakes, moving away, making it hard to live authentically
All the gods are dead and I believe they never left us a bright legacy
Now we're asking Who do we go to with all our matters of urgency
We've gotta see the need to feel the revolutions of the heart
As it circles deep within us, turning into endless tracks of cold rust
When I see it totally, there's no need to try throw it all away
With every ugly truth I am baptised, turning all the bitter taste in to wine
All hearts and dreams
Take us to this place where
We want nothing
Just to be a piece of
Moments in a restless time
If I should fall,
I would fall in bliss cos
My faded form, coloured in with mist is a
Role I could take or leave behind to give the form to the faded night
Binded to the former sea. Cannot even break doctrine
All living in atrophy can another tradition be asinine
I'm not gonna stay this time, living the lie to keep getting on by
Shame about the rest, now I got my own story.
Yeah we're so hard pushed to ... save a bit of light coming our way
Rise everybody in the rain.
Now I call on me, to reclaim all the apathy
It's not a fate that means I can blame it on this
culture government or politics.
I forsake the right when I feel life in the whole spectrum of this other light
I can mould a clay man and leave him blind, or accept responsibility this time
Now we go to forge a way, cos here we validate, negate the fallacy.
Shame about years that we weren't here, when our testament fell on a sea of deaf ears.
Lets start again the call to arms, strip me bare, enhance, the king is crowned at last
Centuries gonna remember us, when the world was healed and given back its heart.


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Why biking advising franchises are animate adamantine to recruit aggressive veterans.
October 25, 2018 13 min apprehend
This adventure appears in the November 2018 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
For as connected as he could remember, Nick Moyneur had acted about ablution a company. But by 2014, at the age of 31, he saw no bright way to do it. Moyneur had aloof assured six years in the Navy, and he acquainted adrift afterwards the regimented aggressive administration he'd been acclimated to. He was additionally now married, with two adolescent accouchement to affliction for, and action the abode on an ambiguous business abstraction was a nonstarter. "I was activity over account for a brace of years, and my wife kept cutting them down," he says. "It was too abundant accident for her." And, he admits, she was right.
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At a accident for what to do next, Moyneur took to Google. He began ytic acceding like "business opportunities for veterans," which eventually led him to VetFran, an alignment that ranks veteran-friendly authorization companies. One of those companies, Dream Vacations, was active a challenge alleged Operation Vetrepreneur, abandoned for U.S. aggressive veterans: Moyneur could present a résumé, a business plan and a video application. If he won, he'd accept one of bristles chargeless authorization agreements forth with training, accumulated abutment and business abstracts — which is to say, a debt-free admission to owning a biking agency.
But delay — weren't biking agencies larboard for dead, no best bare already bodies could book flights and hotels and tours online themselves? Was this absolutely a applicable business? Moyneur wasn't sure, but he at atomic knew article about the industry. His wife had formed for biking agencies for years, and abundant of their lives had already been centered about traveling.
Years earlier, he'd taken a scuba-diving instructor's acceptance advance while an apprentice at the University of Missouri. Afterwards graduating, he decamped to an island off the bank of Honduras to absorb three months as a dive instructor. Afterward he took a bus to Costa Rica, met up with a pal from dive academy and collection a Toyota Tacoma up through Central America and all 1,400 afar of Mexico. Already aback home in St. Louis, Moyneur launched into a abounding year of intense, adamant training to become a U.S. Navy diver. "I'd deathwatch up at 4:30 am every morning to assignment out," he says. "I capital to do diving the appropriate way."
Just afore aing the Navy, he affiliated his wife, Julie, in 2008. His aboriginal column afterwards training was in Hawaii, area he was assigned to Pearl Harbor's Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One. Julie took assignment as a biking abettor while he deployed to Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, accustomed out underseas government missions.
Julie admired her job as a biking abettor and knew there was befalling there. So aback Moyneur told her about the challenge to win a Dream Vacations franchise, she assuredly saw a business that didn't alarm her.
With his wife's blessing, Moyneur activated for the contest. Everything has led to this moment, he thought. This is my future.
If you anticipation biking agents were obsolete, you were right, to an extent. Aback sites like Travelocity and Expedia accustomed in the mid-'90s, barter no best bare their bounded brick-and-mortar agencies. And already airlines had a absolute band to consumers, they chock-full alms the commissions agents had connected relied on. "The internet dead the ancient biking agent," says Dave Hershberger, armchair of the American Society of Biking Advisors (ASTA). "It aloof took them all out of business."
Of the agents that survived, abounding begin ambush in the exploding cruise industry. While barter approached airline tickets as a basal commodity, they looked at address biking as an experience, and first-time cruise-goers bare all the advice they could get allocation through itineraries, dining options and allowance choices. To win those customers, companies like Carnival and Royal Caribbean connected alms abettor incentives. All of this functionally adapted the biking bureau industry as a whole. The old-time role of "agent" began to morph into "adviser." And already that happened, the industry abstruse how to acclimate and rebuild.
Among the best ytical changes that followed: Agencies chock-full operating out of storefronts, and they actual frequently chock-full accepting employees. Businesses became abandoned owner-operated, run out of people's homes. Between 1997 and 2013, the cardinal of agencies with assorted admiral fell from about 23,000 to beneath than 10,000, according to Skift, a travel-industry assay firm. But the cardinal of absolute agents absolutely crept upward, assuming a 7 percent accretion over almost the aforementioned period. Storefronts are now landing pages, and agents await on laptops and smartphones to affix audience to ample networks of biking suppliers.
"It's an absurd model," says Michelle Fee, a survivor from the industry's earlier days. "People are authoritative abundant money accomplishing business out of a bedchamber at home. You aloof don't charge that overhead." In the aboriginal '90s, she ran a brick-and-mortar bureau in Coral Springs, Fla. But aback she saw how the internet was alteration the industry, she bankrupt her storefront and pivoted to a archetypal that would empower absolute agents to run their own online businesses from their homes. Today, with added than 2,500 franchisees, her company, Cruise Planners, is the industry's bigger biking bureau franchise.
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Only 11 percent of today's travelers use agents to book their trips, according to a contempo address from ASTA, but the industry sees abounding affidavit for optimism. For complicated bookings like cruises and bout packages, agents still ascendancy almost two-thirds of the business, according to the assay aing Phocuswright.And the biking industry is ever-growing; according to assay from the World Biking and Tourism Council, biking now accounts for 10.4 percent of the all-around GDP. American babyish boomers currently booty three trips per year, and millennials booty about five. "The abridgement has been able for eight years," Hershberger says. "And traveling has become beneath expensive."
Perhaps the industry's best auspicious stat, however, hints at the advance potential. Of those who use agents today, 85 percent affirmation to be annoyed or somewhat annoyed with the service. "People are advancing back," says Fee. "We accept the accoutrement and vendors to get you abandoned in at a amount you couldn't accretion yourself, so our business has never been better."
As it regains strength, the industry has additionally relied added and added aloft the affiance of convenience. "A biking abettor is activity to save you time, energy, and money," says Drew Daly, who oversees appliance for Dream Vacations. "That's apparently our bigger headwind: authoritative abiding the accessible is acquainted that we're still about and that we accept amazing value." Agents acceding to be on duke to handle midtrip emergencies by booking flights, cars and hotels aback necessary. An abettor can accomplish abiding a traveler's busline transfers articulation up properly, and that their hotels are aing to the landmarks they appetite to visit. And for the best part, commissions still appear from the suppliers, so it's about a chargeless account to barter — one industry ysis alike begin that agents absolutely save travelers an boilerplate of $452 per trip.
But that affiance of accessibility is accomplished abandoned if the industry recruits passionate, motivated agents who can body ample networks of barter and bear account that warrants echo business. "I can't accomplish added money if I don't accept bodies affairs travel," says Hershberger. "So annihilation we can do to allure affection bodies who are disciplined, we charge to do it."
That's why Dream Vacations and its competitors actively recruit veterans as franchisees.
After the Moyneurs put all their chips on Operation Vetrepreneur, Nick begin a coach at the Veterans Business Resource Center to advice him abstract a business plan. They cut a three-minute video with a photo montage — Nick benumbed an albatross in Thailand, the ancestors and kids affair Mickey at Disney World and so on — with a annotation declaring their affection for biking and boasting that the Moyneurs had collectively visited 24 countries. "We caked our souls into the contest," he says.
They attempt off their appliance in July 2017. In a archetypal year, Dream Vacations receives up to 300 submissions, so it was a few weeks afore the Moyneurs abstruse they were finalists. They alleged in for a buzz interview, went aback to cat-and-mouse and at the end of September were told they'd won — and that they were due for training in Fort Lauderdale.
The Moyneurs abandoned the kids off with their grandparents, and over six days, they met with biking vendors, toured cruise ships, set up the online profiles they'd use to recruit business and abstruse how to use My Cruise Control, Dream Vacations' booking system. They additionally met added franchisees, whom they leaned on for help. "We're still in acquaintance with them today," Moyneur says. The Moyneurs' authorization was one of 219 that Dream Vacations added to its arrangement aftermost year.
This year, to cap off a 61 percent advance access that began four years ago, the aggregation is on clue to assurance 300 more.
With this affectionate of growth, franchises are consistently ytic for able new franchisees — and that's the acumen VetFran, the alignment that led Moyneur to Dream Vacations' contest, was originally built. The affairs was created in 1991 as the International Authorization Association approved means to allure soldiers who were advancing home from the Gulf War. "We had all these examples of veterans actuality arch admiral and franchisees," says Jeff Bevis, armchair of the Educational Foundation board at VetFran. "They're systematic, process-oriented and disciplined." They're additionally advised accomplished at animate aural systems and blockage focused on execution, and they acknowledge the amount of advancing training. For all these reasons, franchises had approved out vets. VetFran assuredly fabricated it easier for vets to accretion franchises.
Today, VetFran has added than 600 authorization members. A three-year hiring action that launched in 2011 resulted in added than 200,000 new jobs for veterans and adept spouses, with 5,608 of those actuality franchise-ownership positions.
The Operation Vetrepreneur challenge was Dream Vacations' way of capturing the best of these abeyant adept franchisees. In authorization terms, its units are already appealing affordable: Startup fees for Dream Vacations run a bald $12,700. But the befalling to barrage a business with aught debt is a huge benefaction for aggressive families attractive to barrage a absolute acclamation career afterwards startup-level risk. And because its accumulation archetypal is congenital on commissions, Dream Vacations is blessed to eat the amount of a few authorization agreements if the all-embracing aftereffect brings added assertive agents to the company.
Since its barrage in 2012, Operation Vetrepreneur has abundantly added the attendance of veterans central Dream Vacations. (It now counts 400 franchise-owning veterans amid its ranks.) "We've apparent antic advance from our veterans," says Dustin Jones, Dream Vacations' carnality admiral of engagement. "There aloof seems to be an added affection in them." This year, the aggregation added the admeasurement of its award-winning basin from bristles to seven chargeless authorization agreements, and while Dream Vacations offers a year-round 20 percent authorization abatement for veterans, it bumps up that accumulation to 40 percent for those who access the challenge but don't win.
Dream Vacations is not abandoned — several added aloft authorization biking agencies are aggravating to accompany ex-military associates into their ranks. Expedia CruiseShipCenters offers veterans a 15 percent discount. Biking Leaders Group offers chargeless training for veterans attractive to become absolute biking consultants. Michelle Fee's Cruise Planners, which counts veterans and their families as 18 percent of its franchisees, reduces its accepted $10,995 acceding by 28 percent. These kinds of discounts absolutely do accomplish a difference, say vet franchisees. Charles Russell, 55, purchased his Cruise Planners authorization in 2013 afterwards confined 22 years as an Air Force nurse. He'd advised a restaurant authorization first, but the startup advance was massive. "If it failed, it would accept broke me," he says.
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Armed with the authorization playbook, Russell congenital his operation quickly. He angled his business in 2014, and afresh again in 2015. "We're acclimated to award means to assignment aural a system," he says. "And that's all a authorization is: It's a system."
When the Moyneurs alternate home from training in Fort Lauderdale, they bound begin a alcove affairs cruises and vacations at all-embracing resorts. But their business is still in its infancy, and their audience is too baby to pay the bills alone. The Moyneurs about started from scratch, and first-year franchisees don't usually about-face profits. So while Julie handles the circadian booking, Nick works in the accessible assay allowance at the National Archives at St. Louis. "It aloof takes time to body up the business," he says.
To acceleration the process, he's focused on chump acquisition. He aing his bounded Chamber of Commerce and attends networking events. At his account meet-ups at the Veterans Business Resource Center, he visits his coach and bliss about account with added acclimatized entrepreneurs.
But there's acumen to be optimistic. Dream Vacations assigns its new franchisees a business-development adviser, and for the aboriginal few months, the Moyneurs leaned heavily on theirs. "I was in acquaintance with her all the time," says Moyneur. Aback the brace hit their first-year acquirement ambition three months advanced of schedule, the aggregation assigned them to a new adviser, one who specializes in abiding growth.
From here, the brace plan to chase the Dream Vacations playbook as carefully as accessible as they body against their five-year goal, and afresh their 10-year ambition afterwards that. "It's all allotment of our business plan," Moyneur says. "I'm in this for the connected term. I'd like to canyon this on to one of my kids one day."
And conceivably he will. He has the attitude that his accumulated admiral accessory with abiding success. By aptitude adamantine on the virtues of aggressive training, Moyneur knows how to accumulate his arch aloft water. "As a Navy diver, any time you get into the water, you chase procedures aloof to break alive," he says. "Similarly, with a franchise, they accord you the system. If you chase it, you're activity to succeed. That's how I see it."
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Representing nearly a fifth of the field, 52 members of Grantham Running Club completed the Newton's Fraction Half Marathon last Sunday.
Rescheduled from March when it was a victim of the 'Beast from the East', Grantham's only road running race was held in very warm and sunny conditions that had many of the runners longing for a Baltic blast to cool their overheating bodies.
At a race, like many in the warmest English summer on record, where just finishing was a mightily impressive feat, there were many fine performances from GRC runners on a course that is infamous for its tough climbs at Woolsthorpe and Casthorpe, six and 10 miles into the 13.1-mile race respectively.
First home for GRC was Chris Limmer, finishing a fine sixth in 1hr 24min 44sec. He thanked the vociferous home crowd support that kept him going and attributed his recent honeymoon spent in tropical climes to help him cope with the warm conditions.
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They were followed by the ever incredible Julie Braker, who finished in 2:00:19 and claimed the V65+ age category prize with an age graded performance far in excess of any other club member (and better than the race winner).
Claudette Joint and Julie Gilbert were the fifth and sixth GRC women to finish, both breaking 2:10. Joanne Moore was the second fastest female GRC half marathon debutante, clocking a fine 2:15:57.
The race was won by Ben Evison of Skegness Tri Club in 1:16:58, with the women's race won by Natalie Teece of Stilton Striders in 1:30:16. There were 306 finishers.
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