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The Ultimate Guide to Facebook 2019
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In today's marketing world Facebook is a massive force. 1.23 Billion active users make it the largest social network in the world, with 62% of users "checking in" daily.
To put that into perspective, that's 5x the population of the United States and 15% of the world's population… who can be reached daily.
These numbers have caught the attention of almost every marketer on the planet – with 93% of them creating ad campaigns for the platform.
Facebook's ability to hit target markets with such a high level of precision has been fantastic for marketers, BUT it has meant that content is now more important than ever. Facebook owns the average user's attention for 50 minutes per day. The user spends these 50 minutes looking at content that is interesting, well presented and relevant. It is then implied that high relevancy and quality content equal more engagement. So, to increase your brand engagement it makes sense to have "relevancy" the core of your online content.
The key to producing quality content that is relevant rests on your ability to create a relatable, convincing, eye-catching campaign that targets your specific audience, using suitable Facebook ad types and placements. Your campaign's increase in sales should be correlated to your engagement and awareness about three months into your campaign – with slight variations in time according to your audience.
Seem a little chaotic? Each of the headings below address these elements directly and effectively so that the Facebook shadow doesn't loom quite so large.
With your business poised to create huge waves in 2018 you'll need tools to help you along the way. This ultimate guide to Facebook has been created to show you how to catch those waves and generate sales for your business – so scroll below to take advantage of Facebook in the year ahead.
Consistent execution of a well-researched and coordinated strategy will give your business the direction it needs to succeed.
This plan should be comprised of an audit of your current marketing standing, objectives for your future performance and all the tools you will use to achieve your strategy.
To effectively audit your current marketing performance, you will need to figure out:
- How many people are currently connecting with you.
- How your Facebook presence compares to your competitors.
The reason you're here is because you are not satisfied with the above two points – or you are, but you wish to improve on them.
Ask yourself two questions before proceeding
- Is my audience here on Facebook?
- If so, how are they using this platform?
It is vital that during this phase you keep your audience in mind. By doing so your campaign will reflect an intentional direction; one that allows you to quickly react, whilst you hone your online presence. 'Be spontaneous with your engagement and customer service rather than your content' (Sprout Social).
The vicious landscape of Facebook will eat your budget up and spit out zero returns if your content is sporadic and disjointed. In the past two years, content consumption on Facebook has increased 57%. So don't create unrealistic goals that chase vanity metrics like followers and Likes. Instead, implement metrics to measure your:
Strategy's success
Leads generated
Web referrals
Conversion rates
Ask Yourself Five Questions Before Proceeding
Having great content to share is essential to succeeding on Facebook. Your Facebook strategy should include a content marketing plan, comprised of strategies for content creation and curation, as well as a content calendar
The detailing of this plan should address the following questions:
What types of content do you intend to post and promote to reflect your identity on Facebook?
Who is your target market for these posts?
What reward can the audience stand to gain from your content?
How often will you post content?
What form will your posts take?
What tone will you maintain throughout your campaign?
Does your content drive action?
All these questions should inherently work towards a cost effective and relevant focus. The importance of the right objective from the outset of your campaign – and the answers to the above questions – should appear paramount as you descend through this guide. Now that you have your overarching strategy – communicable across the duration of your campaign – it's time to fill in your objectives directly to the platform.
In this stage you will essentially tell Facebook what you wish to achieve from the get-go – paving the way for a campaign that sympathises with your customer's needs. Facebook now has 12 choices for any business wishing to launch a marketing campaign on the platform, these include:
Brand & local awareness
Post engagement
Page likes
Event responses
App installs
Video views
Lead generation
Product catalogue sales
Store visits
Selecting the objective that best matches your overarching digital marketing strategy is crucial, as it will later effect your ad delivery and conversion rates. To ease some of the pressure though, all of these can be aligned to fit three main marketing strategies:
Awareness – objectives that generate interest in your product
Inquiries and relationship building – objectives that get people looking for your services or products
Conversions – objectives that generate leads for your customers to click through and purchase a product or service.
If you're still unsure of how to allocate your content, you can follow the rule-of-marketing-thirds – a formula that allocates equal weight to promotion, sharing ideas and personal interactions with your audience.
To kick off your campaign crusade will require 3-4 robust objectives that support your business' umbrella strategy. Any objective within this strategy should possess a constant direction throughout the life of your campaign. It is vital that your campaign objectives are analysed once the campaign is finished. These will need to be updated according to changing perceptions of your product and potential algorithm changes – this will keep your brand relevant through constant focus on your customers.
Knowing who you're talking to before you start a conversation is as important on Facebook as it is in real life. Gaining a favourable rapport with any audience starts with your ability to tailor what you say to how they will react. All content that you publish to your target market is what you've chosen to say, it must incur a favourable reaction to improve you image. So knowing your Facebook audience while you create content is the key to effective targeting.
Paying attention to conversations and trending topics on Facebook is the simplest way to directly gauge what interests your prospective audience. This will help you define what they are passionate about, and with what content to best approach them – like listening to what they're interested in before you speak.
You must harness the power of Facebook's ad platform to build your audience. Case studies have proven that this can result in an ROI up to 3x higher than if you don't target a specific audience (Facebook). To specify your audience requires creation of demographics, or niches, to cost and time effectively incentivise product-related actions to your target market.
Saved Audiences
These are audiences you can define through people's interests, age, gender, income level – and other demographic qualities they possess. Saved audiences can be created in the campaign setup phase – recommended – or through the audience manager – when your campaign objectives change. As mentioned before it is best to have a clear idea of who your audience is prior to setting up your campaign.
Location Based Targeting
This option allows you to target people in specific locations, I.e. Country, state, city, postal code, specific address radius – the key is to be specific but not to limit yourself when considering multiple demographics. This can be narrowed further by choosing:
Everyone in this location (default)
Who live in this location
Were recently in this location
Travelling to this location
Demographic Based Targeting
Multiple entries are allowed to hone your audience type based on generic traits and lifestyle.
Interest Based Targeting
This option targets people specifically interested in a subject or brand related to your product. They produce the highest quality leads to your site, as your ads are incredibly relevant to the trending topics your audience are interested in. By providing adjacencies to their browsing topic, you can broaden your reach without wasted clicks. This feature allows you to target people interested in your competitors, your market, magazines, blogs and hobbies.
Behaviour Based Targeting
These use previous actions and interaction history to gauge audience's potential affability to your site. This method uses metrics to analyse audience purchase history, pages they like, life events etc. to anticipate user's future purchase decisions – optimal for hotels and travel sites.
Custom Audiences
These audiences are highly valuable for virtually all businesses, as they allow you to retarget past website visitors and people who have previously engaged with your content. You can set these audiences by using the following methods:
Creating Custom Audiences from Customer Files
This targeting option is based around your existing customer logs and information gathered on your audience I.e. lists of emails, phone numbers and other personal information.
Creating Audiences Based on Website Traffic
Audiences that have previously engaged with your website are potential customers that have expressed interest in your marketing content. To analyse (and cookie) audiences based on your website traffic, you will first need to download Facebook Pixel. Automated tracking systems then relay your advertisements onto user's Facebook interfaces, to keep your brand at the forefront of customers' minds.
Create Custom Audiences Based on Engagement
This resource lets you target users that have engaged with your content on Facebook e.g. viewed your videos or liked your page posts. These audiences have expressed direct interest in your content, giving you the opportunity to effectively teach them about your product.
Lookalike Audiences
Facebook Lookalike tools let you reach audiences who are similar to your existing customer database – making them highly likely to convert sales. This tool helps you extend your ad campaign reach so you can target people with existing interest in your market or industry. First, a source audience (custom audience) must be chosen, then Facebook identifies common qualities of the people within that pool of 1,000 to 50,000 people (size recommended by Facebook).
How you define your audience will lay the groundwork for your whole marketing strategy's performance. This comes down to selecting relevant demographics. Data points that narrow your audience into:
Interests etc.
All of these are itemised when creating a Facebook ad – regardless of the ad type or goals – to allow marketers the opportunity to fill in details based on target reach. The more niche your target market, the more likely it is to resonate with users. This will produce higher quality leads.
Different to demographics, buyer personas are fictional identities created from your target audience. They are archetypes of your ideal customers (AdEspresso).
Personas help you understand everything about your customer – including what they require to convert and purchase from you. Understanding your audience is critical to developing how your product or service is perceived, it will dictate everything that pertains to obtaining and retaining your audience.
Why You Need Personas
Personas drive sales and increase customer retention to create relevant messages that attract niche audiences. You'll be able to connect to your customers through highly targeted messages, because you can imagine certain instances where your audience would use your products.
Usage of your product will vary, so it's important you have a wide enough customer scope. To tailor your marketing to each of the branches in this scope will require a mock-up of that type of audience, i.e. a persona. This will help segment instances of of how customers use your product differently – to later appeal to them through advertisements that target their usage.
What you need to know about your Personas
To create an imaginary potential buyer of your product requires stepping into their proverbial shoes and understanding what makes them tick. These archetypes should be as close to the real thing as possible, and be based on real data to target their:
Background – interests, occupation
Identifiers – buzzwords or tone used to address them
Goals – what they strive towards, where they think they are now, and what plans might dictate their future actions
Challenges & Pain Points – any roadblocks in their lives that can be fixed or aided by the presence of your product
Queries & Complaints – common objections or uncertainty towards your product; will allow counter arguments
Once you research each of the above parameters to breathe life into your persona, you should begin to almost sympathise with your character's situation. If you can see why audiences need your product, you can fit the same product into each of their lives – no matter how different their lives may be. Here is an in depth workbook to help you create the perfect buyer personas around your product.
Using Facebook's audience insights is a great tool you can use to create the right persona, as it enables you to narrow down your audience on the marketing platform itself. However, first you must choose the right target audience.
You can choose to examine different audiences using all of Facebook's users or all the people on your existing page. However, neither of these will give you enough specificity when breaking your audience down into each respective niche. These are not your audiences, and as such aren't the customers that you need to target.
Use custom audiences to better achieve the level of specificity required to create a persona, rather than broader audiences elsewhere. Demographic information is easily accessible, and can help you identify commonalities and trends that exist between your target audiences. It's also a great tool to use as a guide if you're stuck with generating the above lists on audience interests etc.
A beginner guide to how you can create audience personas can be found in the following link from Hubspot.
Using the above link you'll be able to deliver relevant content to your audiences across Facebook Ads – thus allowing you to select targeting criteria that will limit who will see your content. This will reduce the cost and inefficiency that often comes when campaigns are not initiated effectively.
All content, including the image, description, headline and call to action when customised to each persona should garner quality leads. Your core personas will have social contexts and identities that can be targeted with variations of design. This, in turn, creates multiple social identities for your brand, as all customers will view your brand differently, the trick is to getting them to view your brand positively – by using personas.
Facebook has invested in expanding the range of places where your advertisements can be shown to users. In its continued dominance of the social sphere, Facebook has created more ways to customise your content so that it is easily accessible. The cost-per-click can vary by over 550% depending on your choice of ad placements. So strategically placing your ads is vital to cost-effectively targeting your audience.
When setting up Facebook Advertising from scratch, 'automatic placements' are the first option assigned to your brand.
Choosing the "(recommended)" option when making any Facebook Ad decision, tends to mean you'll be paying more for your 'I'll let them work out the specifics' mentality (Wordstream). Take hold of the specifics and you'll be able to stretch your marketing dollars. So if you enjoy striking your own path, paving your own way and other such idioms, Click the "edit placements" button to enter the wonderful realm of placement marketing.
Above you'll see the different categories relating to placement of your ads, including:
Facebook's mobile and desktop newsfeed
Audience networks
Let's break these 4 down for further clarification:
Facebook Ad Placements
Facebook is the original Granddaddy when considering Ad Placement.
That being said, they have added a few more features over the years to give marketers more flexibility in the way their amazing content appears to users of the site. The new key decision to be made is that, unless you choose to target both desktop and mobile at the same time, both placement options will not be available for you to use.
If you choose to target Facebook users on their desktops, you will be limited to Facebook's newsfeed and right hand column placement (WordPress). The right column refers to the compressed versions of your ad that float alongside the news feed when users scroll.
If you want to target users on their mobile devices through certain placements, you have the option to send it to the user newsfeed and Facebook's 'instant articles'.
Instagram Ad Placements
Facebook's acquisition of the platform has freed up the transfer of information between user interfaces. This is great news from a user perspective, and magnificent news for marketers – as it produces massive advertising reach across both platforms. The platform only allows advertising on mobile devices, but its highly visual nature makes it one of the best ways to capture audience attention.
You're then faced with the choice of placing your ads on user's Instagram 'feed' or within Instagram 'stories'. Instagram 'stories' are similar to Snapchat stories whereby time-based videos, images and gifs catalogue user's experiences for their followers.
Audience Network Ad Placement
The audience network extends your reach past social media, into 3rd party mobile apps and websites that host your advertisements. Your ad can be displayed as either native, banner or interstitial.
The good news is that you can exclude specific categories of apps and websites from the audience network, reducing the amount of wasted clicks (WordPress). For your peace of mind, blocking your brand from apps such as Tinder will also give you control over your brand image when using this placement.
Facebook Messenger Ad Placements
Facebook messenger placements take the form of two advertising options: messenger home, and sponsored messages. The Messenger Home option, much like the Facebook newsfeed, uses banner advertisements to present visual representations of brands.
Sponsored messages appear if you select the 'messenger' objective at your campaign level. This placement allows targeted ads to engage and re-engage people who have opened existing channels of communication with your business – so you can directly communicate with them!
Click here to optimise your Facebook Ad Placements
One of the prime reasons behind Facebook Advertising is to drive traffic to your linked website. This can be either to increase your site's overall reach or to send users to a dedicated landing page to potentially buy your product, sign up for a newsletter or participate in some other kind of lead generation (AdEspresso).
Facebook Link Click Ads
These are synonymous with Facebook ads, as they deliver your audiences to an external website or landing page upon clicking. Ads can also be shared and tracked using engagement metrics such as likes and comments. Dialogues can further be created in the comment section, where your business can add personable flair to queries. You can use these simple forms of banner advertisements within multiple placements – to deliver the same ad across numerous user feeds to reach a large audience. This ad type is supported within the following placements:
Right column
Desktop newsfeed
Mobile Newsfeed
Audience Network
Facebook Video Ads
These are another form of link click ads, the only difference being that instead of a still image, there is a featured video in the display. These can be highly engaging as movement within the visual section of the ad often prompts the user's attention. Videos are a great way to get the users attention. However, the video's purpose and a clear message must be delivered immediately to retain participation for the duration of the video. This can be supported by clear text. Video ads are supported within the following placements:
Desktop Newsfeed
Mobile Newsfeed
Audience Network
These mediums allow you to showcase a range of products within a single ad – perfect for businesses that run an E-commerce store or have multiple product offers to promote. Without leaving the platform, users can now submit their information or interact with your brand. This drastically improves the user experience – increasing lead conversions – as loading times are often 10X faster.
Facebook Multi-Product (Carousel Ads)
By allowing you to show up to 10 images or videos, headlines and links, or calls to action in a single unit, it is the ultimate product promotion toolkit. These are notorious for their lower cost-per-conversion, as they are interactive and tell your story. Customers often have differing tastes towards various items or products – so by promoting a range of products it increases the reach of your ad. Do not to go too broad and show sporadic products, instead show variations of similar products or themes. These can be placed on:
Desktop Newsfeed
Mobile Newsfeed
Audience Network
Facebook Lead Ads
These ads are perfect for garnering content downloads straight from Facebook. They generate leads by appealing to users with copy – to emphasise value gained – and an accessible download button. Optimised for catalogues, samples and E-books, this platform has the potential to quickly provide information whilst gathering customer email addresses.
Facebook Canvas Ads
Perfect for highly visual and intricate products, this medium allows users a 360º interactive display of your product. Users can pinch, twist and tilt the image to change their vantage point of the product. Canvas ads can be used to show off 3d elements of your product that aren't accessible to normal display viewing. These are only available through the Mobile Newsfeed.
Facebook Collection Ads
As the name implies, Collection ads let brands show off various items (often clothing) that are being sold on your website. This immerses your audience in the ad, as often a video or single image heads the display, with a carousel at the bottom to show products included in said image or video. This is highly useful for brands that wish to include a 'buy her look' segment to their marketing. This medium is solely supported on the Mobile Newsfeed.
Ad delivery optimisation lets you tell Facebook the results you wish to get so that you reach the right people. To do this, every Facebook ad campaign objective should be optimised differently, as delivery options through varying ad types can make or break any campaign.
Ads for Brand Awareness & Reach
To help more people find out about your brand, these suggested mediums should be used:
Single Image and Video
Ads For Reach & Impressions
To reach the maximum number of audience members relevantly over a shorter period of time is a good option when promoting limited time or re-marketing offers. To produce the highest number of possible impressions use:
Single Image and Video
Lead Ads
Ads For Traffic
Traffic can be boiled down into Link Clicks, Impressions and Unique Daily Reach, so it makes sense that anything visual and highly engaging should be used to attract the customer to your linked site. To generate traffic and lead people to your site, you should use:
Single Image and Video
Ads For Post Engagement
Using Facebook boosted posts to amplify your reach will show your ads to people who are anticipated to like, share and comment on your posts at the lowest cost. To take this direction use:
Single Image and Video
Lead Ads
Ads For Lead Generation
Facebook Lead Ads aims to get users to share their contact details in exchange for downloadable content. Instead of sending them to your website – a form pops up which allows you to collect personal information. Great when using:
Single Image & Video
Lead Ads
Ads for Conversions
Optimised to deliver you new leads or purchases, conversion ads aim to increase audience participation i.e. likes, purchases, followers. Facebook understands this and optimises your ads accordingly into:
Single Image and Video
Test & Analyse Your Facebook Marketing Plan
Your marketing plan must be dynamic, fluid and continually improving. You must frequently update and adjust your strategy and content so that you are constantly relevant to your audience.
Sydney Digital Marketing can regularly improve your content based on what works and what doesn't with your audience. We tailor this process to you, as this is different for every business – no one-size fits all.
Use our highly specialised services to gain insights on Facebook that give you a leg up on your competition, and you'll be climbing the ladder of Facebook marketing domination in no time. We provide high quality leads to brands like yours, using our tried and tested experience. Check out our testimonials for more information.
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Of hooded men and buildings without pants: Negotiating the images of universal desire.
Alejandro Quinteros, University of Puerto Rio.
This article explores images and their incipient conflicts in today's global consumer monoculture. Fredric Jameson pointed out that today it would be easier to imagine the end of the world before an alternative to capitalism. As we have moved towards a globalized electronic capitalist economy, the hegemony of the image is concrete as signs and symbols appear to have become universal. Conflict follows in the representations of universality as definitions diverge between publicness, imageability, fear and desire. The global speed of universal representation of the signs and symbols of Euro-America-centric hegemony powers a binary phenomenon: the geographic dislocation of the consumers of our global consumer information society and the drive towards a global homogenized consumer monoculture.
The privileges of the quasiphotographic image.
Yanai Toister, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design & Art.
Numerical representation enables more than efficient processability and increased programmability. As it makes obsolete qualities that have previously been used to categorize individual media it also increasingly blurs the borders between them. Therefore it should be seen as no less than surprising that many contemporary systems still use images as their exclusive output channel. An associated conundrum is the fact that, of those many images, a baffling ratio appears in photographic form. Why this persistence on familiar pseudoverisimilitude? What are the privileges of the quasi-photographic aesthetic? Much wizardry is required to make data packages look recognizable. This decision, when taken by the creators of imaging algorithms, is of course ornamental but it is also much more. In acting as mere effect quasi-photographic images can function as sophisticated 'go-betweens' that weave together selected aspects of the physical world with the augmented world of data in ways that other media simply cannot. Thus, perhaps it is time to consider the possibility that the quasi-photographic need not be understood only as a form of interface but also as a concession required by and for our inferior human processing capabilities.
Atemporal photography: Image making out of time.
Simon Lock, Bristol University.
This article introduces the concept of Anachronistic Intervention as a performative approach to public engagement experimentation at real-world events. The article presents an intervention involving formal portrait photography as a mechanism to explore the historic act of photography and shed light on the possible future evolution of digital image making.
Unpredictability in everyday photography: A case study.
Ricardo Melo, André Lamelas and Miguel Carvalhais, University of Porto.
Modern technology is pervading all aspects of our everyday lives. With its focus on optimization, and through the growing adoption of content personalization, these technologies – in their attempts for relevancy and efficiency – are decreasing the role of chance and luck in our interactions with the Digital Medium, leading to a reduced potential for serendipitous experiences. This is exemplified in the post-smartphone photography. With the growing popularity of camera-enabled devices, photography has become commonplace: a trivial, routinely and mindlessly engaged practice. The photography act, due to the ever-increasing capacity of these devices to accurately record an image of the real, has become a series of brief, predictable actions, without much thought or consideration on the whole interaction. Through the exploration of the concept of defamiliarization, we intend to restore a sense on uncertainty and randomness to the quotidian photographic moment. To this end, we created an experimental smartphone application that randomly, and without the interactor's control, transforms and manipulates a given photograph – thus making it unfamiliar – and allowing for surprise to be once more part of the process while increasing the engagement between photographer, subject and created image. We have also begun preliminary evaluations which have showed a positive impact of the concepts of this experimental application in the creative process.
A horizon is not flat – photographic pattern compositions as expression for the atemporal.
Julia Heurling, Planetary Collegium.
Avant-garde filmmaker and painter Hans Richter refers to visual rhythm as articulation of time, and film as articulation of time and movement: 'Rhythm is the essence of filmmaking because it is conscious articulation of time. If anything is at the bottom of filmmaking it is the articulation of time, of movement. Film and pattern are both visual expressions based on multiple images. They relate to rhythm, continuity and time but somehow the approach is different. In my practice, I consider working with pattern as managing visual rhythm. I would like to use Richters' statement to reflect on pattern as articulation of time. Could pattern be seen as articulation of time? How is the time aspect different depending if you work with film or pattern? This article will use the project 'A horizon is not flat' to propose how photographic pattern can be seen as representation of place but also representation of time. The patterns can be 'read' as experience of place but also as experience of time, not as information or measurement of time but in an abstract or a-temporal sense as visualization of the experience or perception of continuity. I will present the suggestion of how film and pattern relate differently to rhythm and articulation of time, illustrated in a visual model.

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Ending The Body Image Wars
Our bodies.
We pick at them, we tear them apart, we starve them, we overindulge them, we overwork them.
I struggled for a long time with my body, and I wish I could tell you that struggle is over, but at
times I still feel dissatisfaction. When you are surrounded by images telling you what to look like
and what to eat, I think it's only natural to feel dissatisfaction at times.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
My junior year of high school is when my battle began. It started off so innocent. I swapped
potato chips for carrots, I quit soda, I stopped eating fast food. I was only trying to make healthy
decisions for my body, but I quickly became obsessed.
Within weeks, healthy eating morphed into controlled eating. I was counting every calorie I put
in my body, swearing off certain foods and hitting the gym like a maniac. My sophomore year in
college, I was at my lowest weight, eating practically chicken and vegetables every day, and I.
Was. Miserable. I felt trapped.
I tried to break the pattern. I would eat pizza with friends and order pancakes at Saturday brunch,
but I hated myself after. I would hurry to the gym to "get rid" of the extra calories I consumed. I
was truly at war with myself.
After saying enough is enough, I sought help from a counselor who specialized in eating disorders.cWith her, the help of a supportive family and a lot of prayers, I overcame my battle.
Unfortunately, it's a battle that far too many women fight today.
If there is one thing I want you to know, it's that you are enough. As you are. Right now. I don't
care if you're a supermodel or struggling to lose weight. You are enough. Your weight does not
define you.
I wonder what God thinks when He sees us upset after looking in the mirror. I think it breaks His
Imagine what God was thinking when He created you. Everything God creates is good and
beautiful. He is proud of His creation, and it hurts Him to see His own creation hate its own
Your body is capable of incredible things. Think of all your body accomplishes in mere minutes:
your heart is pumping, oxygen is flowing throughout your body, your brain is processing
thoughts and memories.
Instead of tearing our bodies apart for not fitting an unattainable ideal, let's celebrate them.
Thank you, legs and feet for taking me to places I've never been before. Thank you for giving
me the chance to dance like a fool and jump around at concerts.
Thank you, arms and hands for giving me the ability to write my thoughts, cook delicious food
and hug my people.
Thank you, stomach for processing my food. You help provide my body with the energy I need
to laugh with friends, hike a trail and shop with my mom.
Thank you, ears, eyes, nose, mouth––because of you I hear the laughter of my loved ones, I see
God's exquisite creation, I smell my favorite dessert and I hold conversations with my dearest
Friend, you have a beautiful body. Repeat it to yourself over and over again until it sets in as
truth. Your body is beautiful. Your body is capable of amazing things.
God gave you your body because He believes it is good. Celebrate it, nourish it, love it.
Hannah Brewster // @hannahlaurenbrew
Hannah is currently an Okie studying public relations at Oklahoma Christian University. She loves all things brunch, music and chocolate chip cookie dough, and she is a shameless coffee addict. Hannah has a passion to spread joy and hope through sharing her heart through writing.


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Australia is one of the best countries to stay and work. In order to encourage people from various countries, various visa categories have been designed to offer Permanent Residency Visa for Australia to selected candidates, such as Subclass 189 Visa, Subclass 190 Visa, and many more.
In order to apply for these visas, candidates need to follow a point bases immigration system and on the basis of the points scored the Australian system finally determines the candidate's eligibility to qualify and apply for the Australian PR Visas. Factors like age, education, language proficiency and work experience plays a major role in the point based system.
There are a plethora of benefits in being granted Permanent Residency Visa for Australia, and some of which are as noted below:
- One can live and work in Australia permanently.
- After spending certain years in PR status, one can apply for Australian citizenship.
- Once a citizen of the country, one can enjoy a host of many benefits like the other citizens of Australia like subsidized health and legal services.
- One can sponsor their relative and family members provided fulfilling criteria requirements.
- It provides one with the right to live, travel, study and work in New Zealand, after permissions from the New Zealand government.
- Children born in Australia will be considered as Australian citizen by birth.
The State sponsored visa for Australia, are meant for skilled workers, who are being nominated by a state or territory and allows the visa holder to live and work anywhere in Australia. There are possibilities of including certain family members in the application. One must at least score 60 points in the points test to apply.
In order to lodge an application one has to submit Expression of Interest or if nominated by the state, will receive an invitation to apply. Certain criteria's like age (45 years of below), skill assessments from relevant authorities, proficiency in English and meeting health and character requirements are mandatory to clear to be granted the visa.
A successful applicant is allowed 5 year multiple entry visa to live and work in Austraila.
The Visitor Visa for Australia (Subclass 600), allows an individual to visit Australia for tourism (holidays, recreation or seeing a relative or friend) or business (attend conferences, business exploration or meetings) visit activities for a span of three, six or twelve months on the max. Under this visa one cannot work or provide services to any organization or sell goods and services to public. People intent to take up small courses to studies in Australia up to a span of 3 months can also apply for this visa.
Australian Immigration services requires one to have a valid visa to be allowed to enter Australia, unless a valid Australian passport holder. Visa Immigration Services to Australia is an internationally reputed immigration firm believing in the philosophy of immigration to a new country should be a wonderful experience with the help from the right experts. The highly experienced and dedicated team of Visa Immigration Services to Australia are well versed with all immigration requirements and laws of Australia. Join the site Ocean Outsourcing and know more about the immigration procedures.


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Currently architects focus especially on the use of stainless steel, because of the various design possibilities. Timeless aesthetics, stainless quality and durability make stainless steel ideal for the construction industry. To address these requirements within a very short time seele pilsen made the appropriate investment: On the one hand a new stainless steel working place was created. On the other hand a new belt sander and edge sanding machine were purchased in order to treat the surface. Thanks to this, heavy components can be machined for projects like the blades for Gateway Arch in St. Louis. For another major project, named ICONSIAM in Bangkok, seele's premium steel production is already going ahead at top speed.
More information can be found in the latest press release.


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IUST Recruitment 2017-2018
8 contractual posts of Laboratory Assistant are to be filled in Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST).
Vacancies & Eligibility:
|Laboratory Assistant
|3 years Diploma in Electrical/ Mechanical/ Computer Science/ Civil/ Food Technology or engineering with 60% marks and 1 yrs experience OR B.Tech/B.E. in Electrical/ Mechanical/ Computer Science/ Civil/ Food Technology or engineering with 50% marks
|Rs 8000
Dates to Consider:
Last date for making online application is : 04-01-2018 .
Last date for receipt of application form:05-01-2018.
Mode of Recruitment :
Candidates will be called for Interviews after screening received applications.
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Here is my impression of EVERY tech repair guy facing a computer problem. Ready?
Sits at computer, all confident. Types in a few things. (a beat) "That's weird."
That's what happened this afternoon with my internet access problemo of the last couple of days. Tech guy used some sci-fi gadget and got a high speed reading at one end, but DIAL UP speed was reading at the other (my) end. After replacing my high speed modem with a brand-fangled new model, and taking some more Ghostbuster gizmo readings he come to the conclusion that the problem was "out on the pole." (That and I had a "full spectrum vapor apparition," but I'm not overly concerned with Slimer right now.)
The other thing was "it could take a day or two to fix."
Of course.
This was at 3pm Thursday afternoon. Meaning tomorrow is Friday and this crap could go on through the weekend until Monday or Tuesday. So I'm posting today at dial up speed. Meaning I hit Enter, then take out the garbage, clean the bathroom, or wash a sink-load of dishes, then come back to the computer to see if it's done.
It's 1996 all over again, and it's effing annoying. Isn't that weird?


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One night while drinking beer at Moe's Tavern, Homer tells the story of how he got his big break. He begins with the family attending "Nuclear Plant Employee, Spouses and No More Than Three Children Night" at the Springfield Isotopes baseball game at the Springfield minor league baseball stadium. At the game, Homer's hopes of letting loose at the ballpark are ruined when his boss Mr. Burns sits next to him. To Homer's surprise, Mr. Burns buys him several rounds of beer to show good company relations, and the two begin taunting the Isotopes together. The team is expected to lose their twenty-seventh consecutive game, reportedly the longest losing streak in professional baseball. However, when a drunk Homer fires up the crowd with an impromptu dance to the tune of "Baby Elephant Walk", the Isotopes win the game.
Homer is offered the job as team mascot of the Springfield Isotopes by the team's owner. He accepts, and because of his enthusiasm at the games, the Isotopes go on a winning streak. Homer is soon informed that he is going to be promoted to the "big leagues" in Capital City, where he will fill in for the Capital City Goofball as the mascot of the Capital City Capitals. The Simpson family pack up their things, say goodbye to their friends, and move to the big city. Homer's first performance becomes a disaster as his small-town routine flops before the big-city crowd, and he is booed off the field and promptly fired. Homer sadly finishes his story, only to find that Moe's regulars are very impressed with his tale.


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Musings by Veda Devi.
Let's stop the feeding frenzy of fear by raising our vibrations on a daily basis. Just for today. No need to worry about tomorrow with these practices just today focus on 'what can I do to be a better person to me, my family, my friends and the old lady driving well below the speed limit in front of me as I am running late to a meeting'
Here are 10 things you can do to practise faith and grow in love.
1. Find that power greater than you that you can have faith in and connect with. Whatever that is. I know people that have faith in nature as it always finds a way, or mother Earth, she is so resilient and full of deep compassion and love, perhaps it's the universe, God, Buddha, Jesus, humanity; whatever works for you - take some time to think about what that is, I promise you there is something if you give it the time. Trust me, this process is worth the time.
2. Take 10-20 minutes every morning to meditate and connect in with that source, that power greater than you to remind yourself you are not alone and you're not separate from the world you are apart of a great whole that is so expansive and brilliant and that is holding you in whatever experience you are riding.
3. Pray. We are all aware of the laws of attraction. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Your thoughts are actions. Put out there what you want to receive.
4. Be of service not only to others but to you and your inner child. Do something helpful towards yourself and another each day even if you really don't want to, especially when you really don't want to. When we are experiencing resistance we are creating great change.
5. Give. Step into the law of flow and give something unconditionally. Maybe its paying the next person in the queue's coffee. Maybe it's giving a really great book you just read to someone else to read. Offering some time to a soup kitchen, put your beloveds towel in the dryer so when he or she gets out of the shower its warm. Give someone a smile today.
6. Forgive. Ooof that can be so hard. But resentments are what's keeping this planet sick. I believe an amazing man once said 'forgive them father for they know not what they do'. If you try to come from a space of compassion and eagle eyed perspective perhaps you can see that the woman who pushed by you in the supermarket today has a child sick at home, she's a single mother barely making ends meet and is rushing home to give him his medicine. Or your co worker who totally belittled you in that meeting this morning just got dumped by his girlfriend and is hating on life, hard! I'm not saying be a doormat (which leads me to my next point) but if we can be open to the space around the point in time perhaps we can open our heart to peoples back story.
7. Set boundaries with love. If someone isn't treating you the way that lies within your value system speak to them about it at an appropriate time with love and compassion.
8. Get healthy! Our spiritual, emotional, physical and mental fitness all coexisit in this beautiful body of ours. They work together! So find something you love that makes you sweat and burn out old energies. I personally highly recommend yoga but what ever gets your motor running!
9. Im sure you could guess this next one. EAT HEALTHY! See a nutritionist if need be and see what your body needs but you will find the more you tune in with meditation and love based life programs you will be able to hear your body and answer its calling, naturally and that 2.30pm cake call is a telemarketer - don't pick up!
10. Know that you are here for a reason. Your soul chose to incarnate at this time and has something to learn and something to offer. You are unique, special and you matter. So each day do something to be the clearest channel for your soul because it has something to do and I'm guessing if it incarnated at this time, it's something important.
It is our birthright to be happy joyous. Take back the control of this life. It's yours and no one else's. You are in the driver's seat, take the wheel.


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Senator Scott Brown (R) said there needs to be a "comprehensive" approach to an overhaul of the tax code when asked if he would fight to preserve the mortgage interest deduction at the third senatorial debate with Elizabeth Warren (D) at Symphony Hall in Springfield.
The mortgage interest deduction allows homeowners to deduct the interest that they pay on their mortgage every year. For many middle class families, this deduction is the largest and only deduction that they are allowed. If the mortgage interest deduction is eliminated it would effectively mean a tax increase for the middle class, but it didn't seem that Senator Brown recognized this fact based on his statements during the debate.
"Let's make it clear, I am not going to be raising taxes on anyone in Massachusetts or anyone in the United States," Brown said before indicating that he is not committed to preserving the mortgage interest deduction.
"We need to have a comprehensive tax reform," Brown said. ""With regard to the mortgage interest deduction, charitable deductions, and a whole list of other things; we need to do a top to bottom review of our tax code…we can't be pitting people against each other. It needs to be done in a truly bi-partisan manner."
At the second senatorial debate on October 1, Brown told debate moderator, Meet the Press' David Gregory, that he would keep the mortgage interest deduction. The reason for his apparent flip on the issue could be because the Republican Party platform is also less-than-committed to preserving it.
Warren said that she would preserve the popular deduction. However, an opinion piece in the Boston Globe stated that Warren has been wishy washy on this issue as well, but she may be indicating her support for President Obama's proposal to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction for those making over $250,000. She has been campaigning as a champion of the middle class.
The National Association of REALTOR® (NAR) has lobbied against any changes to the mortgage interest deduction. NAR believes that its elimination will lead to a drop in home prices and will destabilize the already vulnerable economy.
NAR President, Moe Veissi, stated in a Wall Street Journal letter:
"If the mortgage-interest deduction were eliminated or reduced, the value of higher-priced homes would decline, leading to lower demand and lower prices. This would ultimately hinder a housing market that is still recovering. Housing is a key driver in our national economy, accounting for more than 15% of U.S. GDP. Home sales generate more than 2.5 million jobs in an average year. As the housing market and economy stabilize, we should focus on doing no harm by maintaining current federal incentives to homeownership such as the mortgage-interest deduction."
What's more, according to a 2011 Gallup Poll, 61% of Americans are opposed to eliminating the mortgage interest deduction.
Some tax policy analysts say that the mortgage interest deduction benefits wealthy homeowners more than lower income homeowners, so the impact of eliminating the tax deduction on the economy and the middle class would be minimal. The Reason Foundation, a libertarian organization, concluded in their study that the average annual tax savings for those making between $40K and $50K per year save only $120, those making between $75K and $100K save $373, and those making over $200K save $1,862 per year.
However, Melissa Labant, of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants paints a different picture, which more accurately reflects the realities of Massachusetts higher home prices. She calculated for The New York Times the tax savings with the mortgage deduction for a couple making $137,300 per year with a $350,000 mortgage at 5% interest would realize a savings of $4,735. A couple with a million dollar home with 5% interest would realize a savings of $17,500.
According to the National Association of Home Builders, "Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 pay about 40% of all income taxes. However, they receive about 70% of the total benefit of the mortgage interest deduction.".
The mortgage interest deduction costs the federal government an estimated $100 billion a year in lost revenue.
If you are planning on buying or selling a home in the Pioneer Valley, make your first call to Michael Seward at 413-531-7129. You'll be glad you did.


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Gloria is one of Australia's most accomplished and sought after Aboriginal artists. While she is most recognised for her Leaves depictions, it all started for her with Awelye - her ceremonial body paint designs.
Like her sisters and other women who gathered together for a tutorial in painting in the 1980's, Gloria instinctively knew what she was going to paint; body paint. "Nobody told me what to do, I been doing it myself." And she often tells how it is her treasured subject to paint.
Gloria doesn't partake in ceremony much nowadays but remembers it being a happy, social time full of singing and teaching.
These two panels were commissioned in the grey on black for a 'bold-abstract meets quiet-sophistication' look.
Name: Gloria Tamerre
Skin name: Petyarre (also spelled Pitjara)
Language group: Anmatyerre
Country: Atnangkere
Region: Utopia, Central Australia
Born: 1945
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Gloria Petyarre on Desert Doll
Gloria Petyarre's Leaves paintings adorn Desert Doll's Australian Aboriginal art range.
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Painted in Matisse's Yellow Oxide, a rich colour reminiscent of yellow ochre found in Central Australia. The colour is complimented with Ash Pink and Australian Ghost Gum, and lit with Titanium White.


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I spend très beaucoup time keeping up with thought leadership on social media and social CRM topics, hopefully adding to the discussion.
A big discussion topic centers on whether social media is a paradigm shift for how companies will be called to interact with their customers.
Is it? Hmmm. Yes and no. I'm going to give you my 2 cents worth and am interested in yours.
Online social media 101
Social media is an online form of two-way communication.
(Being a bit of a stickler, I tend to like to attach "online" to the term, as in online social media, because really, there are many types of social media. But that's a digression so I'll go with the norm so I can type fewer words. Just know the invisible online is inherent. Back to our scheduled program now….)
In the corporate world, smart companies and business people have always listened to their customers and engaged them in two-way conversation, although often on a less formalized approach.
Another dynamic of social media is that it gives customers an easier pathway to "build pack" with each other. That's not new either. Remember the student demonstrations of the 60s against The Establishment? Consider those a political example of pack building in action.
What is different toda y, though and the source of why so many folks are ringing the paradigm shift bell is the way technology is making it easier than ever for companies to share those conversations with a wider range of customers than ever before.
What is also new is the demand by so many customers insisting on the discussions occurring on their terms. It's a multi-generational demand although the Millennial Generation, the first true generation of digital natives, are leading the charge for the rest of us.
Social media also gives customers freedom to look beyond corporate messaging to the latter's benefit or detriment. And it also means Joe Everyday Person can be heard more loudly than in the past. For a perfect example, consider United Breaks Guitars where one of the airline's customers refused to go quietly into the night after receiving lousy service.
Where does technology fit in?
From a corporate standpoint, effective social media requires two types of technology to support its conversations. The first is the means to deliver the conversations…the medium…and the second is the means to capturing those conversations and turning them into actionable processes and intelligence. Said another way, it's technology designed to help companies manage their social media activities.
Delivering platforms for conversations
Online sites like Facebook and Twitter are examples of social media delivery channels. Other avenues include branded corporate community sites and blogs.
Any given company committed to incorporating social media into their overall strategy will have to decide on an appropriate channel mix to meet their goals.
Social CRM = managing social media processes
Companies turn to CRM and ERP solutions to help them manage their business processes and their customer relationships.
The problem with traditional CRM solutions is they capture information about a customer on a one-by-one basis. Social media is amorphous, though, with lots of people talking across a lot of different outlets.
The idea behind Social CRM (SCRM) then is to provide the technology tools to allow for capturing these unstructured conversations across multiple online sources and turning them into actionable processes and intelligence.
What's most important to remember, though, is SCRM is not a corporate culture or a strategy. It's a technology tool set used to support a social media strategies and initiatives.
Think of it this way, just as online social media is an evolution in mass communication, SCRM is an evolution in traditional CRM solutions.
I like what Brian Vellmure has to say about the debate.
So then, as we collectively quibble over Social CRM, and how big it will ultimately be, what it is, who owns it, and the like, I'd like to bring us back to the one thing that really matters:
Can organizations increase their value (the only real measure of success in business) by serving their customers better with the rapidly evolving strategies and technologies that are now known as Social CRM?
Like Brian, I say yes.
And the correlating reality is there no single SCRM technology solution set -- just as there is no one way to automate business processes or implement a traditional CRM solution.
SCRM best practices will emerge, but at the end of the day, you have to ask yourself what makes the most sense for your company in terms of its business, technology and customer (user) needs.
The rest is simply semantics. Although having said that, I'll now also reverse myself and say the discussion is important. The real value, though, is in helping to clarify the challenges related to participating in social media and managing the actionable intelligence a company can gain from it.
What would help you?
There are diverse aspects of social media to absorb if your company is going to do it well. What questions do you have on the business and technology side of the it all? What's getting in your way?
Post your questions as article comments or drop me an email (the contact form comes to me) and I'll try to find answers to make it easier for you.
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You'll want to be sure to stay in the loop.
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THINGS MOST SURELY BELIEVED - As to the Son of God #2/
by Joesph L. Watkins.
"Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh." I Tim. 3:16.
My purpose in this series is to share with our family of readers what I hold to be the true teaching of God on the principle doctrine of the Bible.
The great subject we are considering at present is perhaps the most difficult of all to express ourselves on. "God manifest in the flesh" Oh, how could this be? God almighty -in human form- just think of it! The most-high God, the power and cause of all, come to this planet Earth in human form. Oh, what a great mystery this is! Yes, a mystery, but no longer a secret for the word of God has much to say on the subject. Yet it remains a great mystery, "…no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son…" Matthew 11:27.
Please allow me to put a handle on this for you that has been a help to me. Let us go back in time, even before time, before all creation, a time as we reckon it, when God in His first essence was and nothing else was, for all came forth of Him. A time when no other intelligence existed but the power force and person we know as "God the Father".
In Acts 17:25 we learn that "God needed nothing". So the question comes to us, why did He create? Turning to Rev. 4:11, we find the answer "…for Thy pleasure they are and were created."
Now some would tell us that God is love and He had no other to love, so He created that He might love and be loved. Let me hasten to say that I don't disagree with them, but there is an aspect to this that must be understood first. To love in the truest sense of the word one must first know the object of that love. So at the heart of the purpose of creation is God's desire that He might be known. For this to happen two things must take place. First, other intelligent beings must be created, beings that could hear and see; that could come to know and love Him. Secondly, God must be manifest. He must become knowable. In Col. 1:15 we learn that God is invisible; John 1:18 – no man hath seen Him; John 5:37 "Ye have neither heard His voice nor seen His shape."
Make no mistake. No being will be created with the capacity to see or hear or know God in His first essence. So then, how can He be known? There is but one way. He must take unto Himself a form, an outward shape and image. This He did, and we know that image as "the Son". The Son is God almighty in audible, visible, and knowable form.
Now let me hasten to say that the Son did manifest God in many ways and places long before the child was born to Mary. Search and see it throughout the Old testament.


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The sweatshirt is officially a wardrobe staple—here's the best way to wear it outside the gym
The sweatshirt is a piece at the crux of many an athleisure-lovers wardrobe, however, it needn't be reserved for lazy days, travel, or workouts. Going beyond baggy hoodies, the newest versions come sporty and sleek for a more tailored fit than their oversized counterparts.
"The sweatshirt has become the quintessential layering piece," says Roopal Patel, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue. "It's less casual now, and we're always thinking of ways to elevate it and dress it up." She cites Rosie Assoulin, Off-White, Unravel Project, and Calvin Klein as designers who have put a creative spin on the cult item.
"The silhouette and casual nature of the garment adds a streetwear vibe to even the most clean-cut looks."—Jennifer Bandier
No longer exclusive to off-duty style, Patel explains how a sweatshirt becomes smart when worn in juxtaposition with tailored pieces. "You can style it under a Prince Of Wales checked blazer or over a pinstripe collared shirt and wear it with tailored trousers or skirts."
The key is reaching for a sweatshirt when you'd otherwise wear a blouse or tee, which Jennifer Bandier, owner of her namesake fitness boutique, says adds an instant "cool factor" to any outfit. "While they can be fitted and made of luxurious fabrics, the silhouette and casual nature of the garment adds a streetwear vibe to even the most clean-cut looks."
Here, 10 sleek sweatshirts to shop now.
Two more ways to rock a sweatshirt this season: Add a matching bottom to create an of-the-moment sweat set. Or, use it in place of a beach cover-up—perhaps over your new yellow swimsuit.
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Introduction to Emergency Management is a practical reference for professionals and students who need to understand the process of disaster response planning and mitigation.
The book details the world's leading emergency management agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), covering its history, organization, programs, and operations as well as the Federal Response Plan (FRP). The authors examine the roles, responsibilities, and interrelationship between FEMA, state and local emergency management systems and other critical partners. They also explain the government emergency resources available before, during, and after crises…
Fmr. FEMA Director Michael Brown needed to read this book.Looks like a great book.


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A tale of parallel lives begins on the night when temptation comes into Irina's life. In one universe, Irina gives in to an attraction with her partner Lawrence's friend Ramsay, and in the other she resists. There is something alluring about an author providing an insight into what life would have been like had we just made that other choice. They become the literary angel in our imaginations, much like Clarence gives George Bailey the same opportunity in It's A Wonderful Life. It can't be our own lives unfortunately but as long as we identify with the characters then it can mean something to us as well.
The The Post-Birthday World is a clever story by Lionel Shriver, winning author of the Orange prize for We Need To Talk About Kevin, and it is well constructed with incredible attention to detail. There are no slips and the story lines are convincingly mirrored on both sides. Irina faces the same issues and we see that it is not the content of her life but the process of how she does things that determines her life experience. Her problems, or dynamics, are the same for both story lines, the deference to her partner, her work, her lifestyle and most importantly how she takes care of herself.
Irina is a North American children's book illustrator living in London with her long term partner Lawrence who is a critical, mean-spirited political analyst who talks unpleasantly about people when they are not around. She and her partner are friends with Ramsay, a famous snooker player from a working class background who is raised in Hackney, calls women 'birds' and who just can't manage to win the top prize in his game of choice. On one night when Lawrence is away on business she goes out with Ramsay to celebrate the latter's birthday. In one version of this book's reality, she finds Ramsay incredibly attractive and succumbs to her desire for him. In the other she resists and carries on with her life with Lawrence which lacks romance and intimacy.
The two parallel story lines are very well written and had the characters been a little nicer this may have been a great book. Instead, the writer provides unpleasant and full of self-loathing characters who can't seem to step out of the unhappiness within which they create their own destinies. No matter what course of action Irina takes she cannot escape her unhappiness. The denial and excuses the main character makes up for herself may seem convincing to Shriver but they didn't to me. They sounded patronising and mean. Here is an author who doesn't like these people she has created and she never intends a happy ending.
She is a bitter, angry and mean God who plays with her creations as you would with marionettes. This is not a pleasant read and I am determined never to read one of her books again, so far I have read four and the mean streak is there in all of them. In this book, the mean streak becomes quite malicious and the right-wing policies of the Telegraph reading, white, middle class protagonists who are are meant to be intelligent because they support a pro-Bush anti-terrorist agenda is quite embarrassing for the Guardian columnist Shriver.
The most distasteful part of the novel is the constant crude language which seems incredibly out of place.
I don't recommend this book and I found it quite unpleasant. The main message for the reader seems to be that no matter what you do you are always going to be unhappy. Not much of a motto to live by.


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Doing an early promotional round for "Logan Lucky," filmmaker Steven Soderbergh participated in a Reddit AMA this afternoon and revealed that he hopes to finish his years in the works re-cut of his 1991 Jeremy Irons feature "Kafka". Soderbergh said during the chat "I'm in the midst (if you can call fifteen years of work "midst") of a radical KAFKA overhaul, which I really want to finish by the end of the year."
Soderbergh has previously said he was frustrated with the film and the mixed-to-negative reaction when it came out, and so has been trying to completely rethink it in the hopes of at least turning it into something more unified and "I'd like to make it a little more abstract and more of a hardcore art movie."
The filmmaker also teased a return to the same territory that his thriller "Side Effects" explored, dubbed "Get Out" the best film of the year so far, and most exciting discussed his idea for a third season of his cancelled period medical series "The Knick".
Soderbergh's plan was to reboot the series with a new cast, setting and potentially get a new filmmaker for the third season, and he drew up a pitch for Cinemax – which they passed on. He did offer a bit of detail though:
Season three of THE KNICK was set in 1947 and was going – at my absolute insistence – to be shot in anamorphic black-and-white. It's POSSIBLE that may have contributed to its demise.
I miss everything about working on THE KNICK. I was terrified before we began because the schedule was so aggressive, but we found a rhythm very quickly and even though both seasons were shot in 73 days, the second season seemed to go REALLY fast."
Soderbergh's "Logan Lucky" opens on August 18th.


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The Legend of Michael Mishra is an upcoming Indian comedy film presented by Ponty Chadha's Waves cinemas, produced by Kishor Arora and Shareen Mantri Kedia of Eyecandy Films, and directed and written by Manish Jha. The film stars Arshad Warsi, Aditi Rao Hydari, Boman Irani and Kayoze Irani. It is slated to release on 5 August 2016.
Arshad Warsi
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Boman Irani
Kayoze Irani
Written by: Manish Jha, Radhakrishnan, Sneha Nihalani
Screenplay by: Manish Jha
Music by, Meet Bros Anjjan
Cinematography: Manoj Soni
Edited by: Nipun Ashok Gupta
Release dates: 5 August 2016
The Legend Of Michael Mishra Official Trailer
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H. Sloane Mayor, AIA, NCARB
Sloane is the newest member of UK Architects. A New England native, she fundamentally understands the culture and climate of the Upper Valley. She has practiced architecture in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, and before joining UK, Sloane headed a sole practice in Lebanon, NH from 2009 to 2018.
Sloane provides extensive leadership in client communication and building design. She is an expert in high performance building technology and remains on the forward edge of sustainable design and construction by continuing to be passionate about the integration of design, technology, energy efficiency and affordability.
As an active community volunteer, Sloane currently serves on the Board of Directors of The AVA Gallery and Art Center and the Parent Leadership Council at Roger Williams University. Prior volunteer roles include serving on the Boards of Directors of the Augusta, ME Children's Museum and the University of Maine at Augusta's "Forum-A." She has advocated for walkable communities through her service on the Town of Hanover's Bike and Pedestrian Committee and Safe Routes to School Committee. Sloane also coached youth soccer in Hanover for seven years.
Sloane received her BA, cum laude, with a major in architecture from Wellesley College in 1987, taking courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. In 1993 she received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sloane grew up in Hanover, NH. After graduate school, she lived and practiced in Maine for 15 years, then relocated once more to Hanover in 2005, where she lives with her husband and three daughters.


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How to download Driver app in iOS devices?
June 2, 2018
Quick Ride Application is available to download for FREE on Itunes. Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
To download on Itunes:
- Just click on this link.
- The Quickride Driver icon will appear and click on install.
3. Wait for the app to finish downloading and once completed type in Station ID, Username, Password and click log-in.


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The title above is not a typo, an eye chart or in a foreign language. Do you know what it says? Here is a hint: it's the custom license plate I want for my car. Can you decipher it now? It says LIVE and LET LIVE.
Such a simple concept, yet actions from around our planet prove it's a philosophy not practiced by enough people. Wars, "ethnic cleansing" (one of my most despised terms), terrorism, and brutal dictatorships are all too common. Millions of people live in terror while carrying out the most basic of daily survival tasks. Women, in particular, are victimized in unbearable and unbelievable ways.
Those of us living in 21st century United States are privileged to call this amazing democracy home. Part of what makes us ever better as a country is people speaking out when there is room for improvement. As a proud American, I have an opinion as to how we can all enjoy our freedoms even more.
Even in the United States my future license plate would be disputed by many. My underlying belief system is the following: adults should be allowed to live their lives how they see fit only ifno one else is actually (not theoretically) hurt by doing so. In our fascinating, colorful, multi-cultural society, there are endless combinations of how people create their lives. In the United States, we get to choose our own paths regardless of the choices made by others. What religion my neighbors practice is unrelated to my family's beliefs. What occupations my friends pursue has no impact on my choice to be a life coach. How many children my siblings have doesn't change my total of two.
So why are many people insistent that their way, their religion, their choices are the right ones? Why are many people so self righteous that their way is "the truth?" In the wonderfully mixed up, zany United States, how is it even possible that anyone believes the myth that one size fits all?
While I don't believe people should make the same choices I make, I do believe we would be a more compassionate society if we all subscribed to "live and let live" as our motto. Imagine people marrying whomever they want, thereby creating their version of a loving family. Imagine people observing their religious tenets without criticizing people of other faiths, sometimes telling the "heretics" they're going to hell (whatever that means).
I come from a very diverse family. Our family gatherings are colorful, literally and figuratively. We have single people and married couples. We have families with and without children. We have same sex and opposite sex couples. We have people of varying skin colors. We have Christians, Jews, Buddhists, agnostics, and wonderful blends of various traditions. We have birth children and children adopted from outside the United States. We have single parents and two parent households. Like big box store ads, you name it, we've got it. We're not perfect, but we love each, accept each other, and welcome every addition to the family. My parents set the tone when they raised their children to pursue what makes them happy. I believe we have passed that down to our children, who are now raising yet another generation.
Live and let live is easy to subscribe to and even easier to practice. Here are the instructions:
1. Does someone's choice negatively impact the lives of other people? Yes or no?
2. If yes, what observable evidence do you have? Disapproval is not evidence.
3. If there is no such evidence, then your answer is really "no." Move on.
As a society, we don't need to agree with each other. We don't even need to like each other. But we do need to respect each other. So let's make a pact: from this point forward, let's LVLETLV.


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|goldfishmom122 - Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:49 am
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My daughter is 22 months old. She has been diagnosed with Reactive Airway Disease. Her father has asthma. She is on albuterol and pulmicort. She still has a cough. Can I give her some cough and cold medicine?
|Dr. Chan Lowe - Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:30 pm
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Hi Goldfishmom122,
Generally the cold and cough medicines made for children are ineffective at stopping the cough. Also, the cough is a protective mechanism to help clear the lungs of all the gunk that builds up in them with an asthma exacerbation. Her continued cough may actually signal insufficient control of her asthma (reactive airways disease).
That being said, sometimes the cough can be so significant that it makes it difficult for children to sleep, etc. The cold and cough medicines are basically safe so it can be worth a try of these medicines. If you find that they really aren't helping I would recommend not giving it anymore.
If her cough is not continuing to improve I would recommend she see her pediatrician again for a reevaluation of her asthma.
Best wishes.
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